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Two factor auth (password + RSA token) was used for vpn/ssh from home and to access high security stuff (which I never got access to) at Yahoo when I joined in 2004. If AOL was having trouble with security, requiring it for admin tools would have been reasonable and feasible in 2005.

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Netscape used RSA SecurID tokens when I joined in 1996. I still have kine, but the battery long since expired.

Presumably you can get a new watch battery for it, non?

The tokens are not intended to be servicable. Even if you replaced the battery, you couldn't set the time, so I don't think you could sync your token and your verifier.

And I don't know if these things had protections against being opened anyway.

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