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Lots of fail here, but I'm surprised no-one has mentioned www.ironkey.com yet (I just did). I've been using one for a couple of years (admittedly mostly on Windowses) and was so impressed I bought a couple more for my partner, family members etc. The identity manager does a reasonably good job, and the two-factor authentication works well for Ebay / PayPal. I use the on-board browser, which I keep as my "secure" / trusted-sites-only browser (where trusted mostly means "can cause money to change hands") or the integration with IE for some banks. The only thing that doesn't work automatically is banks asking for random digits (from a 16+ character random string, yeah, thanks). For that I use the ability to store notes alongside account credentials in the identity manager. IronKey also provide a degree of device management on their website, which is maybe the obvious weak spot - the credentials and checks needed to log on to their site WITHOUT having the device. That sort of thing is maybe best written down and stored with a will in a lawyer's safe - it's a worst-case-scenario if you need it.



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