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Old 07-18-2011, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Are you going to pay the $1,000+ it costs for the backend system required to operate the key fobs?


It has become clear to us that email is inadequate. People lose email addresses easily, whether they lose it because they forget the login or it was with a provider or business that no longer exists. Phone numbers are much more likely to stay with someone.
I lied and am posting again. I have to back rogean on this one it is seriously expensive to get those systems running, almost as much as running what he's got going already. And someone made the argument that phone#'s are the least invasive method. I still don't like it one bit but there are ways around giving your number directly to rogean as mentioned in this thread already. Honestly my first posts were coming from a Draconian understanding of the phone system. There are VOIP services, and as one has pointed out one is free.

Honestly I would love an alternative... fancy PGP keys that everyone generates themselves and sends in via email would be an alternative perhaps. There is allot of FOSS software out there to do this simply which would even give people choices how to generate their PGP keys.