{"id":249,"date":"2009-10-27T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/paypay-security-key.php"},"modified":"2009-10-27T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:34:00","slug":"paypay-security-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/paypay-security-key.php","title":{"rendered":"PayPay security key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/PayPaySecurityKey-706729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/PayPaySecurityKey-706727.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Earlier in the year I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/barcampleeds2009-using-second-factor.php\">waffled of at BarCampLeeds<\/a> about multi factor authentication and tried to persuade everyone to get a PayPal security key.<\/p>\n<p>I learned at <a href=\"http:\/\/charityhack.org\/\">Charity Hack<\/a> that PayPal were discontinuing the security key. I don&#8217;t know the full story, but it has been suggested that it could be because of cost.<\/p>\n<p>The security key has essentially been replaced by SMS in the UK. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.co.uk\/securitykey\">So now you can register your mobile number<\/a>, and when you try and log in as normal PayPay will send you an SMS message with a one time password to enter. Although not 100% secure or reliable this does overcome the authentication security concerns affecting most PayPal users. Because of this I strongly recommend you use it if it is practical for you to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Now the good news. You can still purchase a PayPay security key for \u00a33 from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\/securitykey\">US PayPay site<\/a>, and it is the amazing credit card sized hardware key pictured above. This key can also be used on ebay and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verisign.com\/authentication\/consumer-authentication\/shared-authentication-network\/members\/index.html\">VIP web sites<\/a>. There are no excuses, even if you only log in once a year you should please get one now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year I waffled of at BarCampLeeds about multi factor authentication and tried to persuade everyone to get a PayPal security key. I learned at Charity Hack that PayPal were discontinuing the security key. I don&#8217;t know the full story, but it has been suggested that it could be because of cost. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-41","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}