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IB security token
- Thread starter HOBO
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Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:
I get out my device and enter my pin as soon as I hit enter for logging in(the account password) because if I'm too slow on the challenge and reply, it appears to time out.
Anybody else notice this?
Not for me - I am slow to enter and yet I have never had a reject unless I make a typing error.
Quote from nonam:
Well I got locked out of my margin account for a day.I think I screwed up with the "secure device" three times.
The platinum device give you 4 tries... then locks you out.
Since there are 200,000,000,000 possible combinations...
With the PIN increasing that even more...
Only an complete idiot or a sadistic corporate culture...
Would leave the Lockout Threshold at 4 all these years.
Quote from DeeDeeTwo:
The platinum device give you 4 tries... then locks you out.
Since there are 200,000,000,000 possible combinations...
With the PIN increasing that even more...
Only an complete idiot or a sadistic corporate culture...
Would leave the Lockout Threshold at 4 all these years.
Unless you have huge fingers, can't read, or have dyslexia, 4 tries is plenty.
I'm having a hard time believing this thread... Perhaps its because I spent so many years at various big banks using these things or because I've used a Bloomberg B-Unit for so long... But come on guys... These things are easy!
If you can't sort out a security token I'd suggest tossinng the computer all together and having a close enough relationship with a voice broker that there is trust.
Edit not trying to be rude or mean but this stuff should be easy... Also RSA tokens are much easier than the crap IB uses.
If you can't sort out a security token I'd suggest tossinng the computer all together and having a close enough relationship with a voice broker that there is trust.
Edit not trying to be rude or mean but this stuff should be easy... Also RSA tokens are much easier than the crap IB uses.
Quote from sprstpd:
Unless you have huge fingers, can't read, or have dyslexia, 4 tries is plenty.
You completely missed the point of my post...
Which is a simple mathematical, security point...
Focusing instead on excreting a sociopathic "insult" worthy of 11 yo.
If you have 200,000,000,000 possible number/letter combinations...
What idiot at IB decided that the "security cutoff" was exactly 4...
At which point the Customer is locked out of his account multi-million $$$...
And IB has to spend $20 or $50 or whatever on Customer Service...
In order to issue and track a temporary password.
Quote from DeeDeeTwo:
You completely missed the point of my post...
Which is a simple mathematical, security point...
Focusing instead on excreting a sociopathic "insult" worthy of 11 yo.
If you have 200,000,000,000 possible number/letter combinations...
What idiot at IB decided that the "security cutoff" was exactly 4...
At which point the Customer is locked out of his account multi-million $$$...
And IB has to spend $20 or $50 or whatever on Customer Service...
In order to issue and track a temporary password.
Really? You can't get the challenge right in 4 tries? Really? Maybe you should hire someone to do it for you then?