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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
Thats why I said pick the TAN generators
Cell phone viruses are quite nasty
I was hit with a "Bluetooth spy"
allowing other people to steal text messages etc
the problem is that cellphones are not that safe(especially with people banking and making purchases on their phones)
A good TAN generator is almost uncrackable
but i have seen really bad cheap ones that are really bad
my dad had some really unpleasant experiences from his TAN generator from the China Merchants bank
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How to crack a TAN generator? And why? It does not matter with which devioce, yours or mine, I use my credit card to generate the reply code. The card is the decisive item, not the generator. And the generator is not connected to the PC or the internet - it is completely isolated, getting it'S input from the card's chip and the optical sensor scanning the five flickering squares on the screen, producing an output that is shown on its display and must be entered into the PC manually via the keyboard. This is none of the regular card-reader devices that get connected to the PC via wire. It stays seperate like that cup of tea on my table.
There is no sense in wanting to crack these devices. You get no benefit from that alone. You can buy it legally and freely. They are not equipped with anything that makes them encoded in themselves, or "individual" units.
Check the video on
this site, a bit down there. The video is almost self-explaining, no matter the language.
On cellphones, I use a simple
this one. Prepayed card 15 Euros, last 2 years and becomes invalid with most money not used. Not much nonsense on it, just an emergency sender and receiver. No blue tooth. No virusses. No problems with costs exploding when it gets stolen. Plus it looks elegant, is robust, has long standby and talking time. Life is simplier without smart phones!