Come on SE...

[Jennestia]

Thanks for the replies guys. This has got to be a genius way to make money for SE or something. I'm not going to waste $10 for a security token just because I'm annoyed by their "security" feature. There are better ways to implement this than doing it the way they did it. Oh well, I'll just rotate passwords.

Actually, when they launched the system in 2009 they stated they're not even making a profit on these tokens, so it's not a money grab, it's just something pretty much every company utilizes for security these days.