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Keyhotee - Take back control of your digital life

25 points by s1gh 13y ago

dewey 13y ago
I find it weird that a company providing a security/privacy tool isn't even using https on the website and providing a checksum for the binary.
tekacs 13y ago
'Keyhotee - move everything into this platform that we created, with absolutely no technical details provided.' > connects you directly to the person you are addressing ... > without revealing the relationship or contents to anyone. So... directly connect to the other host, whilst apparently not revealing the relationship between the two of you? Posts like this (from the link at the bottom of the page) are also not promising: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1962.msg22546#msg22546 https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1962.msg22546#msg2...
deepblueocean 13y ago
People keep telling me that research I'm doing with some friends overlaps with what these people are proposing, so I've spent a little time trying to figure out what they do and how they do it from their website. I haven't yet played with their client or anything like that. I really can't see any substance here. The name is also sort of darkly humorous: they've clearly poured a lot of effort into (at least marketing) what they're doing, but have yet to realize that they're just tilting at windmills.
robertskmiles 13y ago
Looks like a very promising concept, at least from a technical perspective. I don't rate its chances of success all that highly, since it needs a lot of buy-in before it gets enough network effects, but it's nice to see someone genuinely trying to find workable solutions to what we can no longer deny are serious privacy and security problems with the current setup. Something I'm not clear on is the licencing of the code. Is it open-source? For trust reasons I'd want to be able to read it.
cahitonur 13y ago
So I will connect to Facebook without a password and that will prevent ID thieves to impersonate me?
lovemenot 13y ago
Windows download page not found http://www.invictus.dev/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip http://www.invictus.dev/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip edit: OK, some of the download links are broken. This one works: http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip
- zapt02 13y ago
  They seem to have left the development domain in there. Oops. Here is a proper link: http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip
- hobo_mark 13y ago
  .dev? is that a real thing already?
  - rcsorensen 13y ago
    It's a common convention for running domains locally. You can set up a stub resolver and point *.dev to loopback. Most commonly found in the wild through http://pow.cx/ http://pow.cx/
infocollector 13y ago
If you were interested in this news, perhaps this might interest you as well - http://bit.ly/blibonline http://bit.ly/blibonline
mratzloff 13y ago
The OP's username pretty much reflects my reaction to this website. Here's a question asking for a white paper: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=979.0 https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=979.0 It links to a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8 There's a lot of hand waving. Not to mention that I wasn't aware Amazon, eBay, FedEx, et al accepted Bitcoin and integrated with the Keyhotee network...
jobeirne 13y ago
Windows only -- really? It's 2013. If you're trying to get traction with a highly technical identity platform, windows probably shouldn't be your top pick.
- MacsHeadroom 13y ago
  s/3/4
bigd 13y ago
I'll never figure out how it is possible that periodically, someone tries to convince us that putting all the eggs in the same basket has become a good idea.
brianstorms 13y ago
Shouldn't it be Keehotay?
hboon 13y ago
The download button says Windows, but the screenshot has a distinctive Aqua (OS X) look.
r3v1 13y ago
Finally! I have always wanted to connect all my social media accounts to one freaking server, which is 100% hacker-proof ! How are they doing this? Probably some IT-ish complicated encryption algorithm! (Just like the Titanic) Isn't this a cliche?
apple314159 13y ago
Looks like the source is here: https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/keyhotee https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/keyhotee

25 points by s1gh 13y ago

dewey 13y ago

I find it weird that a company providing a security/privacy tool isn't even using https on the website and providing a checksum for the binary.

tekacs 13y ago

'Keyhotee - move everything into this platform that we created, with absolutely no technical details provided.' > connects you directly to the person you are addressing ... > without revealing the relationship or contents to anyone. So... directly connect to the other host, whilst apparently not revealing the relationship between the two of you? Posts like this (from the link at the bottom of the page) are also not promising: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1962.msg22546#msg22546 https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1962.msg22546#msg2...

deepblueocean 13y ago

People keep telling me that research I'm doing with some friends overlaps with what these people are proposing, so I've spent a little time trying to figure out what they do and how they do it from their website. I haven't yet played with their client or anything like that. I really can't see any substance here. The name is also sort of darkly humorous: they've clearly poured a lot of effort into (at least marketing) what they're doing, but have yet to realize that they're just tilting at windmills.

robertskmiles 13y ago

Looks like a very promising concept, at least from a technical perspective. I don't rate its chances of success all that highly, since it needs a lot of buy-in before it gets enough network effects, but it's nice to see someone genuinely trying to find workable solutions to what we can no longer deny are serious privacy and security problems with the current setup. Something I'm not clear on is the licencing of the code. Is it open-source? For trust reasons I'd want to be able to read it.

cahitonur 13y ago

So I will connect to Facebook without a password and that will prevent ID thieves to impersonate me?

lovemenot 13y ago

Windows download page not found http://www.invictus.dev/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip http://www.invictus.dev/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip edit: OK, some of the download links are broken. This one works: http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip

zapt02 13y ago
They seem to have left the development domain in there. Oops. Here is a proper link: http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip
hobo_mark 13y ago
.dev? is that a real thing already?
- rcsorensen 13y ago
  It's a common convention for running domains locally. You can set up a stub resolver and point *.dev to loopback. Most commonly found in the wild through http://pow.cx/ http://pow.cx/

infocollector 13y ago

If you were interested in this news, perhaps this might interest you as well - http://bit.ly/blibonline http://bit.ly/blibonline

mratzloff 13y ago

The OP's username pretty much reflects my reaction to this website. Here's a question asking for a white paper: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=979.0 https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=979.0 It links to a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8 There's a lot of hand waving. Not to mention that I wasn't aware Amazon, eBay, FedEx, et al accepted Bitcoin and integrated with the Keyhotee network...

jobeirne 13y ago

Windows only -- really? It's 2013. If you're trying to get traction with a highly technical identity platform, windows probably shouldn't be your top pick.

MacsHeadroom 13y ago
s/3/4

bigd 13y ago

I'll never figure out how it is possible that periodically, someone tries to convince us that putting all the eggs in the same basket has become a good idea.

brianstorms 13y ago

Shouldn't it be Keehotay?

hboon 13y ago

The download button says Windows, but the screenshot has a distinctive Aqua (OS X) look.

r3v1 13y ago

Finally! I have always wanted to connect all my social media accounts to one freaking server, which is 100% hacker-proof ! How are they doing this? Probably some IT-ish complicated encryption algorithm! (Just like the Titanic) Isn't this a cliche?

apple314159 13y ago

Looks like the source is here: https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/keyhotee https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/keyhotee