On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:41 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How in the world do you arrange this with Paypal? Great idea! > > No arrangement necessary. You can order the authentication gizmos right from > their Web site. We have two of them. My wife has an older one that looks like > a little football. Mine looks just like a credit card. They both have a > button that you press when you need to get an authentication number. > > You can also use your iPhone (or Android) to do the same thing, but I've not > gotten around to it.
It's called "two-factor authentication," if you see the term anywhere else. It means that just a login isn't all you need. The concept is that you have two things to access something that requires high security: some knowledge in your head and some thing on your person, neither of which is useful without the other. It's been around since the last century in corporate security in the form of some kind of "dongle" you carry around that generates a special code for you. I've had one for PayPal since they first came out several years ago. As Lee alluded to, it is possible in many instances these days, though, to use a mobile device in a variety of ways to be the "second factor." Some involve texting you a code each time that you then type in to the site, and other times it requires a special app that generates the code. Your personal phone has become, in this case, the code-generating "dongle." Embrace the new security culture. All the kewl kids are doing it these days! j. -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9/10/11/12 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 New Podcast on the Block: FileMaker Talk - Business Edition: filemakertalk.com [email protected] Kentuckiana's FileMaker Developers Group Next meeting: Tuesday, November 26th, noon to 3:30-ish http://www.kyfmp.com
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