{"id":407842,"date":"2017-09-27T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/27\/Yubico-YubiKey-4C-Nano-USBc-Authentication-Key-smallest\/21|23224461"},"modified":"2017-09-27T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:38:00","slug":"get-ready-to-lose-the-tiniest-usb-c-authentication-key-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/get-ready-to-lose-the-tiniest-usb-c-authentication-key-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to lose the tiniest USB-C authentication key in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yubico has launched a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/usb-c\/\">USB-C<\/a> authentication key and it is <em>tiny.<\/em> The tiniest in the world, in fact. But size doesn&#8217;t matter in this instance, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/yubikey\/\">YubiKey<\/a> 4C Nano it works just like any other USB-C authentication key. Designed to replace text messages or external authenticator apps when using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/two-factor\/\">two-facto<\/a>r authentication, just insert the key into your PC and bingo, you&#8217;ve got access. Interestingly, though, the company claims its incredibly small size makes it well-suited to simply being left in your laptop, which kind of defies its security and protection purpose. Of course, the alternative is taking it out and &#8212; for something of this size &#8212; inevitably losing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yubico has launched a new USB-C authentication key and it is tiny. The tiniest in the world, in fact. But size doesn&#8217;t matter in this instance, as the YubiKey 4C Nano it works just like any other USB-C authentication key. Designed to replace text messages or external authenticator apps when using two-factor authentication, just insert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":407843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-407842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}