Any idea what this is?

[Enverex]

I did a search on it and it seems to be some type of US bank security card. I came accross it in the bag of my moms laptop we just picked up from a computer fair....

Front:

[Enverex]

Back:

NS

Oh, and it seems to be active. There is a cursor flashing on the left hand side and a little diamond flashing on the right hand side.

[Thrax]

SecurID (http://www.rsasecurity.com/products/securid/tokens.html)

Used in conjunction with RSA ACE/Server® software, an RSA SecurID authenticator functions like an ATM card for your network, requiring users to identify themselves with two unique factors — something they know and something they have — before they are granted access. More than 10 million people around the world use RSA SecurID authenticators to securely access VPN and Remote Access applications, Web servers and applications, network operating systems and more.

[Kwitko]

Isn't Google (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=securid) wonderful?

[Enverex]

I had already seen those results on Google. I was just wondering why firstly one would be here of all places, as they only seem to be in use in the US, and secondly if there was anything special about them that I should know about.

But apparently not.

NS

[Kwitko]

Could be someone who worked overseas for a US company and needed that to log into a secure system.

[a2jfreak]

What Thrax posted said more than 10 million people around the world. I know the world revolves around the USA (actually, I'm not kidding :D) but c'mon, we're not the WHOLE world. :)

[Necropolis]

Secure Id's are still being used where I work so users can dial up and access the network. I have had to be trained in their setup as I have to administer the tokens. They come in 2 types that I have seen. 1 is the credit card size that you have, the other is in a small key fob. We are fazing them out and moving over to Entrust. They work very well tho.

The date on the back is the use by date. Once they hit that they die and become worthless. File under B for bin.

[Kwitko]

a2jfreak had this to say
...we're not the WHOLE world. :)

We're not?

[pseudonym]

Yeah, exactly what Necro said. My dad had one for dailing into the Ford Network when he was on business trips. The number displayed on the card is synchronized with one at the server, so when you input the number, it matches the one at the server, and it lets ya in!!

[Enverex]

Necropolis_uk had this to say
Secure Id's are still being used where I work so users can dial up and access the network. I have had to be trained in their setup as I have to administer the tokens. They come in 2 types that I have seen. 1 is the credit card size that you have, the other is in a small key fob. We are fazing them out and moving over to Entrust. They work very well tho.

The date on the back is the use by date. Once they hit that they die and become worthless. File under B for bin.

Cheers, just needed someones first hand experience of what they were/did.

NS

[keto]

I just got mine for work. There's a 6 digit number which (as said above) is synched with the home office server. The number changes once a minute and, at least on mine, there's a bar showing how much of that 'number's minute' is left, if it's in the last 10 seconds they say wait for it to roll over to a new number so there's enough time for the remote lappy (me) and the server to synch up. The number is part of the password or authentication program, user enters number from SecureID at prompt, along with users normal pw, server recognizes and wallah ur in.

**EDIT** likely either a) the laptop is hot (no accusations here, there are a boatload of hot lappys out there) or b) the IT department of whatever company previously owned it forgot to remove/didn't look for it prior to disposing of unit or sending back to leasing co. What specs on the unit?

[Enverex]

Its an old IBM Thinkpas 380Z (300mhz PII, 64MB RAM, etc) very low end machine.

NS

[WuGgaRoO]

maybe u bought the secure id and it came free with that lappy?

[Enverex]

Er.... not at any point have a bought a secure ID card, and the bloke didn't say anything about it when we picked up the laptop, and secondly it has expired.

NS