How many of the Pinsentry gizmos can you get? Can you just keep phoning up and claiming you haven’t received it until you have one beside every computer you use?

I’m quite happy to have my PayPal/eBay keychain dongle (https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/FAQPPSecurityKey-outside), not least because it also works with my OpenID provider, but if I had more than one, it might get a bit on the annoying side.

The Flash-based “page” – presumably so they can fade text in and out like a pro – just proves to me how much Barclays don’t get it at all when it comes to customers/users.

Presumably the warnings that it gives you right at the bottom of the “common questions” page (I’d cut and paste, but… hnnng) are to prevent social engineering attacks? If that’s the case, isn’t this just another level of perception of security? I can see it would help prevent ongoing or delayed fraud, but does it prevent live man-in-the-middle relay attacks?

Kind of hoping they send me one now, just to see what it’s like…

You get one free, and then it’s £6 for each one after that. The size is a problem – if it was on my keychain I’d probably be less bothered.

The Barclay’s Q&A on this is just a disaster – on the front page there’s a list of questions but they’re not clickable to their answers, just a link for “see the answers to these questions!” and then those questions aren’t the first thing on the page. And then it’s in Flash. Rubbish.

Just testing