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What an ingenious understanding of security ;) http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323


Schneier has, from 2006, people pointing webcams at securid tokens!!

(http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_...)

Here's a Stackoverflow question from someone who is expected to OCR the webcam so they can programatically use the securid token (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fo...)

And here's a really nice write up, with perl, about OCRing securid tokens. (http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf)

(http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html)

I saw the link you posted. I laughed! it was funny. Then I searched, and a whole bunch of people do it.


That is hilarious and bad and wrong. All at the same time.




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