Posted on 03/18/2008 10:25:07 AM PDT by Stoat
Back after I first registered in ‘99, I opted to get this nice-looking handmade piano stool (shipping from about 100 miles away). It was about $120 (not including shipping, which was about $20-$25). Got it, pulled it out of its packaging (it was well packed), but it was obviously crapola. The legs were loose, the ball underneath the legs was smashed. Contacted the seller, he told me to ship it back and he’d replace it. Several weeks later, get another one, same condition, total crap. I demanded a refund and said he could have it shipped back to him (in pieces) at his expense. He sent the refund but never contacted me again about having it shipped back. He tried selling the stools again and I personally emailed the bidders to tell them they were total crap. He soon vanished from eBay.
That's very interesting, thank you. If Homeland Security is using it, then perhaps it's not quite such a haphazard, slapdash fix that I had assumed it was and is in fact an accepted industry-standard security component. I'm somewhat familiar with things like dongles which can be used for adding one or more layers of security, but I hadn't used this sort of thing before which doesn't plug into the user's computer and uses the preexisting online entry interface. Perhaps I should get one after all.
Thanks very much for pinging your list :-)
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