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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I was cleaning out my desk, and I found a mystery thing. It's a thing that generates numbers, probably as two factor codes. But I have no idea what the codes are for, where I got the thing, who made the thing, or if I can somehow reset the thing or do anything else with it. Based on where I found it, the thing has to be at least four years old, if not older. Being a blind person, I of course recorded the thing. Do you have any advice about what I could do with my mysterious thing other than throwing it out?
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Sean Randall @cachondo@defcon.social
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@fastfinge we have a number of these number gismos for banking.
Never heard one with what sounds like neospeech in it, though? Freaky.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cachondo I only have had two bank accounts in my entire life, though, and neither of them use it. I mean it's obviously giving me a code for...some useful purpose. I just have no idea what that purpose was.
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Sean Randall @cachondo@defcon.social
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@fastfinge it also said end of life of device, didn't it?
That sort of planned obsolescence really annoys me. Lithium batteries if nothing else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cachondo It did! But the batteries are AAA batteries. I can easily change them. So I don't know what makes the device end of life.
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Andrew Hodgson @andrew@hodgson.io
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@fastfinge @cachondo Yeah its super frustrating isn't it? My device did something similar and there was no way to reset it other than getting a new one. The devices given out to sighted people were tiny in comparison and had non replaceable batteries. When my device expired in 2019 I got it replaced with a phone token as it was the right thing to do. If I remember correctly the token comes from the factory with a specific shelf life of 5 years.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@andrew @cachondo Yuck. Straight to the landfill it’ll go and still be there in a hundred years.
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