Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well, my old company sure made a ridiculous profit selling them. You may be looking at the cost per fob hardware, but not including the management cost. They are much more expensive than an authentication app, plus authentication apps are mostly managed by someone else, and you don’t have distribution overhead

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  • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In my experience, the only thing that really made them more difficult than managing end users who were using an authentication app instead was having to facilitate getting the fob to the users and replacing them occasionally and they were dirt cheap… Like less than $5 apiece.

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  • grepe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    what exactly is the management cost here?

    at my old company they simply ordered a yubikey for you amd forgot about it. nobody kept track of it. i didn’t even need to return mine when i was leaving. the part they manage is the user account. the hardware you get once and use for added security…

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This may be relevant

      • keytos.io/…/how-much-does-a-yubikey-cost.html

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