IB new security features- makes me mad!

Quote from Kicking:

I think you guys are being too paranoid definitely a trader's trait of character.
I am 100% for the security device for withdrawals or account management login. But there is no need for a security device when loging into a trading platform. You can't initiate withdrawals from the platform.
Of course someone could trade in your account, but what's the probability that will happen vs the probability you will misplace or damage your device ?
This is already happening with people not being able to trade for days or weeks.
As for clipping this on your key ring, I certainly don't want that on my key ring!



IB is another evidence that the bigger a company gets the more idiots making decisions you get.
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how naive can you be?
 
Pardon, did I miss something? EVERY IB client should get a secure device?

It's not that I'm against it, the more security the better, afraid of another thing:

should I order it or what or can be restricted in account access somehow?
 
Quote from gohstrader:

I now subscribe to a security company that guarantees my credit and identity and if I get my ID stolen again hey cover me 100%.
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What company is that?
 
Quote from Kicking:


Of course someone could trade in your account, but what's the probability that will happen vs the probability you will misplace or damage your device ?
This is already happening with people not being able to trade for days or weeks.

IB is another evidence that the bigger a company gets the more idiots making decisions you get.
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If you misplace or damage your device IB will issue a temporary passcode. No one has been shut out for days or weeks. Absolute bullshit.

Evidently you don't need to be with a company to be an idiot. You're proof of that.

OldTrader
 
Quote from Kicking:

I hear it won^t be possible to trade without their security device to access everything .
People at IB are out of their mind, as if we just needed a tiny little gizmo with us at all time, at work or when we travel, just to place a m*f*cking trade . Can't even imagine the mess it's gonna be when this thing is lost .

Wow REAL geniuses at IB !
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Everyone's moving to this technology.
Realtor's use this technology, most likely its the Secure ID made by RSA. Realtors log in once with it and then once they are in they can play all they want. Which I would assume is the same thing for IB, use it once to log in, then trade all you want till you log off.
http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1156
 
Dude I am out of the loop. I've haven't gotten any info from IB about this. Maybe my identity has already been stolen and all my funds wired to Nigeria by some 15 year old in Moscow. I'm freaking out! Help!!
 
Quote from Kicking:

You can't initiate withdrawals from the platform.
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I think you can, can't you click on help and then go to the account management screen without further ado?? I can't login right now but that is how I recall it...
 
Quote from gohstrader:

I now subscribe to a security company that guarantees my credit and identity and if I get my ID stolen again hey cover me 100%.

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those credit reporting agencies could have made this available to all of us at anytime, in fact they were mandated by congress to do so in a krappy fashion where you had to make the request really frequently.. and they did not cooperate in that at all... they let you feel safe however!! Now that somebody is making them conform [that is what those for-pay services do] and has the clout to sue them because of the size of their aggregated customer base the credit reporting agencies are going to offer the same service for pay!! They can eat into the profits of the third party services and reduce their exposure to lawsuits!! Thanks for looking out for me and all the millions of people that had id theft corporate america.....

The public sector never gave a rats ass whether we had our id stolen, so I would not wait for them to fix it, if IB has a solution go with it.....
 
Does anyone know if every IB customer will receive a security device no matter how big or tiny his or her account is /or accounts are ?
Btw, doesn't this security device cost around 150 $? And how many IB customers are there actually in the world? Several 100000s? So not everyone will get his or her device on time, of course should I say?

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Quote from ghost typer:

Does anyone know if every IB customer will receive a security device no matter how big or tiny his or her account is /or accounts are ?
Btw, doesn't this security device cost around 150 $? And how many IB customers are there actually in the world? Several 100000s? So not everyone will get his or her device on time, of course should I say?

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There were around 80k customers at end of Q2 as I recall.

I believe smaller accounts get a passcode list of some sort -- based on other posts (I have 2 Secure Computing devices so I can't say first hand).
 
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