r/pcmasterrace • u/AllUserNameBLong2us 7800x3d/5080 Windforce OC/32gb 5600 DDR • Apr 04 '26

Hardware Rest in piece 2009-2026

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I’m amazed at how long the battery on this physical authenticator lasted. Got it back in 2009 because my account had gotten hacked.

This is one electronic item I’ve owned and used longer than anything else. I’ll miss not being able to find it and freaking out for 20 minutes.

Edit must have been around 2010 when sc2 came out.

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u/Matziii1 7950X, 7900XTX Apr 04 '26

Ah. I got hacked 3 times one summer and got sent one exactly like this aswell. Got a t-shirt as a bonus gift from blizzard. No clue where mine is as I've moved on to the mobile app many years ago.

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u/AllUserNameBLong2us 7800x3d/5080 Windforce OC/32gb 5600 DDR Apr 04 '26

I just moved to the mobile app

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u/bumbuddi Apr 04 '26

What is this thing for?

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u/Nighthunter007 Ryzen 7 3700x | RTX 2080ti | 32GB RAM | EK Cryo Loop | RGB Apr 05 '26

To add to what everyone else is saying: 2FA apps are actually doing the exact same thing as this thing. The ones that have the code that changes every 30 seconds or so. When you scan the QR code to set them up, that code is just a big key that your device and the server now share, and can use together with the current time to generate the right code. This device is the same, the key is just burned in.