I remember around 2005 being given my little RSA code device. I asked why the heck did I need that, and the company boss I had responded....to log onto the timecard website. Then the issues arose. Minute by minute...there was a new sign-in pin number issued to me. The network that I had to use (the AF)...was so slow....that once you typed in the pin number and hit enter....it was a fifty-fifty shot that the pin would hit the server in time to be approved ok on the timecard website. For months, folks complained about this, and I would imagine that each person wasted at least one man-hour every two weeks....trying to get their RSA number to work.
In this case....I would imagine some goofball with RSA felt this ‘help’ would get them a good spot on future contracts. It may be listed as a 10-million dollar effort....but look at the contracts they got with the US gov’t after that. As for their future? RSA will have to sell themselves out to some other company, and be renamed. They won’t be trusted anywhere in the commercial world after this episode.
Yep. in a high latency environment RSA will be a frustrating pain the ass.