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Does anyone use the IB Digital Security Card thing? Any opinions about it, or password security in general?

I used it when my IB account was active. It was a nuisance but I liked it better than 2FA to my phone.

At my Motorola job, they had us use an RSA key manager for remote access. All electronic, everybody had a different key, each key changed at 2 minute intervals.

A while back I got the Etrade Hardware token that works similarly.

I'm about to switch to a free password manager, since the paid one I've been using got hacked anyway.

Every big place is going to get hacked eventually. IMHO the safest thing is to have your accounts spread over a few brokers/banks, so that it's not all at one place.

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