On 5/24/2014 4:04 PM, Jon Perryman wrote:
password will only match those never-changing passwords. If companies were willing to spend the money, then they would implement Securid (or a competitor) to provide machine generated passwords.
Just before I retired, I worked for a company with headquarters in Massachusetts, and an office in Virginia that I worked for from Vermont. They used an egg-shaped device (sorry, I don't recall the brand) that generated a time-sensitive password string. It was poorly designed (i.e., cheap) with an LCD display that was hard to read (my cats don't read over my shoulder), and had a clock that regularly drifted out of synchronization, necessitating a three-hour trip to the main office, essentially wasting a whole day every couple of months. This cost them more then they could have lost in intellectual property rights if anyone had gained access to my portion of the projects I worked on, since things were fairly compartmentalized.
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