Verisign VIP Access for iPhone Provides Additional Authentication Security (but not compatible w/1st generation iPod touch)

Verisign released a free iPhone app named…

VIP Access (iTunes link)

…that provides a time-synced random sequence of 6-digits to provide an additional layer of authentication (in addition to your password) for services like eBay, PayPal, AOL, and GEICO. The New York Times’ Saul Hansell has a good overview article about it here…

What’s the Password? Only Your iPhone Knows

Note that the initial VIP Access screen correctly obtained my phone’s number and placed it in the blank space you see in the screenshot above.

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