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Story: PayPal fights fraud with password key fob

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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Monday 15 January 2007, 1:20 PM)

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Because the fob

I don't know how this is implemented exactly, but I imagine that PayPal knows the algorithm underlying the pseudo-random number generator in your key fob, and so can correctly predict the pass code that the key fob is generating every 30 seconds.

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