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Floating in the Two-Factor Authenticator Tsunami?

gmerideth asks: "Working as a security consultant, I have access to a multitude of clients' networks through physical and VPN connections. Recently, due to the on-going issues of data theft, our clients have started implementing two-factor authentication using different providers. The result is a keychain that I carry around with our company key, clients keys, and a key for online access to my local area bank. I am slowly drowning in a sea of two-factor authenticators with sticky tape on the back of them, so that I can remember which key belongs to whom. What alternatives are there? Are there open projects or private products that provide a remote, secure, trusted authentication service that can provide for network/VPN authentication for Windows and Linux, using a single key among separate, private networks? If not, will step up to the plate and make it, or at least point me to a site that sells big keychains?"

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  1. This will work if nothing else does by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Funny
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    Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
  2. Here's the best solution by jjbelsky · · Score: 5, Funny

    This fellow pointed a web cam at all his keychains. Problem solved: http://fob.webhop.net/

  3. Re:-1, Bad Metaphor by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Funny
    who doesn't know what a tsunami is?

    Now? Absolutely nobody I should think.

    Eighteen months ago? Probably at least 3/4 of the entire planet.
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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.