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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post

Anyway, way back then he had a credit card sized gizmo that had random numbers showing up all the time. If he needed to log in, he had to punch in the numbers from that gizmo to access the network. They changed constantly, so he had like a minute before the next set of number appeared. It was cool tech but likely expensive.
That device was likely an RSA Hard Token - which is used for MFA.
Yubikeys are another current MFA option.

I'm in a Security group at a large telecom/mobile provider.
We were recently forced to update passwords to a 15 char minimum!
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