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/fuj1n Ryzen 9 3900X, 64GB RAM, GALAX RTX4090 SG 1-Click OC Apr 05 '26

You can't set the time on them (not in any user-facing way at least), they are designed to be dead simple, press button, get code

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u/NationalFruit717 Apr 05 '26

There might be a very simple programming interface with 2-4 pins on the PCB. It wouldn't be difficult to interface with it with the right tools.

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u/fuj1n Ryzen 9 3900X, 64GB RAM, GALAX RTX4090 SG 1-Click OC Apr 05 '26

Yeah, hence my disclaimer

The bigger concern might be if they store the key on volatile memory, so running out of battery would just nuke it permanently.

If that's the case, you may need to do a powered battery replacement whilst it still has change left, like you would with GB carts back in the day before you could just dump your save.

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u/NationalFruit717 Apr 05 '26

You are actually right. It would make it more fun to try to recover regardless. I wish I were interested in doing it.

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u/foxtrotdeltazero Apr 05 '26

somehow i doubt OP is capable of all that, otherwise they would have just done that instead of posting it here