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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New">I dont know where are
people about supporting VPN and one-time passwords on tokens.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New">At my work place a few
people dont have tokens (OTP - One Time PAsswords). The
reserve of these tokens has been exhausted. NEw ones are
being on order. Until then some people cant get on VPN.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New">Some people forgot their
token on their desk and had to to travel to office to get it,
a thing not good to do to go to office now.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New">Some (not sure) might
have issues with syncing these devices. An OTP token has a
certain skew about clock, and a battery that lasts long.
Hopefully, one's token has been synchronised recently and the
battery is new. The length of time one cant go to office
might be anywhere between 21 days (announced) and 2 months
(experrience eg in Wuhan still closed). Some times the
synching of clock can be performed remotely, and some 'coin'
batteries can be replaced by the person with skill and tools,
could be extracted from a quartz watch for example.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New">An OTP device can be of
many kinds. Some people keep OTPs on paper (I did some time
ago). Some OTP devices are like Japanese 'tamaguchi' format,
others like a credit card format.<br>
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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Courier New">Alex, LF/HF 3</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 23/03/2020 à 20:47, Mark Tinka a
écrit :<br>
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On 23/Mar/20 21:20, Peter Beckman wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">But also:
"The categories of people who will be exempted from this lockdown
are... those involved in the production, distribution and supply
of... telecommunications services"
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/2020/03/23/breaking-nationwide-lockdown-announced-in-south-africa/">https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/2020/03/23/breaking-nationwide-lockdown-announced-in-south-africa/</a>
I think most anyone on this list could be considered exempt.
I do hope the same will be true should our respective local and national
governments take similar action.
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Yes, a number of "essential services" have been identified as needing to
continue to operate under special dispensation during the lockdown, and
telecoms falls within that.
The details of the implementation of the dispensation may be nuanced.
Experience will tell us more in the coming days.
Mark.
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