Paypal now supporting hardware token authentication
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:59 pmhttp://www.paypal.com/securitykey
Pretty cool that Paypal is offering this feature to customers. I'd like to have one of these for my real online bank account.
On the other hand, I already have a SecurID for work, so I'm sure I wouldn't like to be carrying around multiple hardware tokens on my keychain... I guess I could always leave the banking one at home.
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Pretty cool that Paypal is offering this feature to customers. I'd like to have one of these for my real online bank account.
On the other hand, I already have a SecurID for work, so I'm sure I wouldn't like to be carrying around multiple hardware tokens on my keychain... I guess I could always leave the banking one at home.