It's not because paypal leaves security holes in their system. It's to
prevent someone that has illicitedly gotten your id and password from
getting in. All the security in the world is not going to help if someone
else has your id and password. With this thing you now need three things,
an id, a password, and the number displayed on the fob. The number is
different each time you press the button. It works for both paypal and
ebay. Admittedly they could give them away but I'm thinking they are not
making any money at $5 a go for lifetime service.

I have a similar device from rsa that I use to establish a vpn tunnel from
home to my work campus internal network. It allows my home pc to behave
just as if it is physically connected at work behind the firewall. Anything
I can do at work, I can do from home.

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On Dec 4, 7:24 am, "jamesgangnc" wrote:
I got one of these. Works for both paypal and ebay. Best $5 I ever
spent.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/we...curitycenter/g...

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:35:49 -0500, "DB"
wrote:

Maybe the phisher changed the email contact information in the ebay
account
after he accessed it. He may have also locked the real seller out

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Isn't that rich..Paypal leaves all kinds of openings in their
security, then charges you to close them. Sounds like a protection
racket to me