one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny
I still have mine from the era (or I should say the Epoch). It was a gift from a buddy at the Sun booth in a trade show we were both presenting separately. I was at a consulting firm booth flogging a firewall solution running on Sun hardware and sending folks to his booth after my spiel.
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@penny
I still have mine from the era (or I should say the Epoch). It was a gift from a buddy at the Sun booth in a trade show we were both presenting separately. I was at a consulting firm booth flogging a firewall solution running on Sun hardware and sending folks to his booth after my spiel.@DenOfEarth I was wondering how there were so many of them but I guess they just handed out a ton
yet I can’t even find my white whale a sun microsystems branded yoyo
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny I used to have one of these. My job involved writing software for these Dallas Software devices and we were given them as part of a promotion when they came out. I wonder were it is now.
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@DenOfEarth I was wondering how there were so many of them but I guess they just handed out a ton
yet I can’t even find my white whale a sun microsystems branded yoyo
@penny @DenOfEarth A former colleague had a Sun Java leather jacket that was stupidly cool.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny Sadly it contains a battery. So the usefulness is limited to its flash.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny I got given one of those at JavaOne. Bizarrely it got stolen (presumably by the office cleaner) - so someone in the Manchester underworld was probably a bit disappointed!
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny Interesting. How would you change out the battery on one of these critters without zeroing out the keys?
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@penny Interesting. How would you change out the battery on one of these critters without zeroing out the keys?
@grumpydad It shouldn’t be possible, they’re rated for ten years though
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny I have seen these used to authenticate staff at a POS kiosk, especially in bars and restaurants.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny nice!!!! we saw a couple of those back in the day
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny iButtons are still made, but they're just a 1-wire EEPROM with an occasional temperature sensor, the cool JAVA iButtons are not made anymore I think.
I got so many free samples from Dallas, but I never managed to get a java one.
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@penny Sadly it contains a battery. So the usefulness is limited to its flash.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny why does this remind me of Spaceballs?
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny Still have my Java ring. If anyone wants it, hmu.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny how do you program it?
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny I recently saw a hashtag #WeirdOldTech which this could fit under, maybe.
I'd never heard of a JVM signet ring before. Really cool, but also weird. Thanks for sharing.
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one of these popped up for $25 and I've been wanting one for years so I had to do it
this is a Dallas Semiconductor ibutton which they have affixed to a ring, they were supposed to be highly durable and potentially purvasive hardware authentication tokens. Par for the course for sun they feature an actual jvm which run applets with can crypographically authentice you. It has many hardware features- a battery, which provides an rtc to prevent backdating authentication fames. They're designed to last ten years on a keychain, they're tamper evident if opened and if you open them anyway a microswitch zeroes out the keys. They also zero out on extreme temperatures and unusual voltage conditions.
The ibuttons are still made though no one ever like made them work as a login token for linux or whatever, so you're more likely to find one being used as a key for a safe or a forklift.
@penny my local shop has an iButton based login for staff on the self-service checkouts.
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