<story><title>Google Declares War on the Password</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meaty</author><text>Used one of these before (YubiKey) - they are an utter pain in the arse.&lt;p&gt;The contacts get dirty, they dont fit some USB ports properly, they die regularly, are absolutely no good if you don&apos;t have a USB port handy (my desktop for example doesn&apos;t have a USB hole in the front or on the keyboard or monitor, resulting in crawling around under my desk to authenticate) and to be honest quite fragile.&lt;p&gt;All it does is act as a USB HID keyboard and pump some text down when you press the button on it. It&apos;s basically about as secure as an RSA key but requires physical electrical contact with the machine.&lt;p&gt;No thank you.&lt;p&gt;(For reference &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigv.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bigv.io/&lt;/a&gt; uses these).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archangel_one</author><text>FWIW, I&apos;ve had one at work for a year now and I&apos;ve had nearly none of the problems you&apos;ve mentioned. It&apos;s fit into all USB ports I&apos;ve tried, the contacts are still fine, it hasn&apos;t died, it doesn&apos;t seem fragile (or at least hasn&apos;t broken yet) and I haven&apos;t had to crawl anywhere to plug it in. The most annoying thing (apart from the general annoyance of a second authentication step) is that I can&apos;t use it via my phone; a screen on it would be handy for that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Declares War on the Password</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meaty</author><text>Used one of these before (YubiKey) - they are an utter pain in the arse.&lt;p&gt;The contacts get dirty, they dont fit some USB ports properly, they die regularly, are absolutely no good if you don&apos;t have a USB port handy (my desktop for example doesn&apos;t have a USB hole in the front or on the keyboard or monitor, resulting in crawling around under my desk to authenticate) and to be honest quite fragile.&lt;p&gt;All it does is act as a USB HID keyboard and pump some text down when you press the button on it. It&apos;s basically about as secure as an RSA key but requires physical electrical contact with the machine.&lt;p&gt;No thank you.&lt;p&gt;(For reference &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigv.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bigv.io/&lt;/a&gt; uses these).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obituary_latte</author><text>&amp;#62;All it does is act as a USB HID keyboard and pump some text down when you press the button on it.&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily. They can be configured for challenge-response auth: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yubico.com/products/services-software/personalization-tools/challenge-response/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.yubico.com/products/services-software/personaliza...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>