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Fortress House Would be Perfect for the Zombie Apocalypse
(viralnova.com)
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This is the sort of thing that sounds reasonably nice and we all wish we could do. However it stops working really fast. I also have a web service and we used to let people get away with this sort of stuff. First year it worked. Second year
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I discovered recently this sort of things works amazingly. At my company it used to be that it would be impossible to hold a punctual meetings (theres was always at least 1 person who would arrive 10+ minutes late). We made a rule, if you a
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A bubble occurs when prices are driven by view on the future that are implausible or inconsistent. It seems that current high prices are mostly driven by "investment" competition - meaning that startups can raise prices at early s
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How the Authy Two-Factor backups work
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danielpal
13y ago
I'm tired of seeing everyone call every damn company a business cause it isn't so. A startup is a company designed to grow fast. It's can be profitable business who's been around for years. Making that distinction, while
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13y ago
You are missing the point. Call them however you want, startups or businesses, makes no difference. The point is I didn't just seek out to "proof" Sam was wrong - that would miss the point too. Instead, I followed the same st
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From my list of top startups: Heres the ones that strongly supports it: 1. Square: Easy payments for the real world. 2. AirBNB: Lodging on the real world. 3. Pinterest: What I like of the real world. 4. Twitter: Whats g
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“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell
(alexgolec.github.io)
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Congrats to A16Z. My biggest memory of Sinofsky is just after he joined the Windows 8 team. I went to the copy room to get a notebook. Sitting in a corner, on top of one of the desks, in meditation position was a guy working. That was quite
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danielpal
13y ago
No the app doesn't talk to Authy servers. It's completely independent. You could just keep using it.
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danielpal
13y ago
It's just copying the current TOTP token over Bluetooth to your Mac. Nothing fancy. Simple yet very useful.
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danielpal
13y ago
Yeah exactly, if the attacker has complete control over the computer, the least of your worries is Bluetooth. He can steal your cookies, keylog your password/token, poison your dns and compromise your SSL Keys or simply steal a session
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danielpal
13y ago
We use Elliptic Diffie Hellman when you are pairing your iPhone to your Mac. The key is stored on both iPhone and Mac KeyChains. Every message between them is encrypted/signed using that key.
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13y ago
Business Model: We have an API that companies use to add two-factor auth to their sites/infrastructure. We charge for that. see www.authy.com/developer/pricing 2. The recovery process enables your phone. If you decided to ena
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13y ago
Your tokens are only backed-up if you choose to (it's completely optional) and only the encrypted version is backed-up. It's also off by default.
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danielpal
13y ago
GO BOILERS!
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danielpal
13y ago
:). That's not me. I wish I was as good looking as the actor in the video. I am here: www.authy.com/about.
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danielpal
13y ago
Hi Maver, unfortunately is likely your Mac doesn't have a Bluetooth 4.0 chip and Apple doesn't have an API on the iPhone to talk via 2.0. It will work on an Android though.
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13y ago
You can see: http://blog.authy.com/authenticator But in general terms: 1. Authy tokens automatically sync even if you lose, change or upgrade phone. 2. Ability to do encrypted backups of Google Auth tokens. Same as above, t
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Hi, we already do. We charge websites, banks and apps to enable two-factor auth on their sites. See https://www.authy.com/developer/pricing .
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Hey James, "- Are the HMAC keys stored or synced to the desktop? No, nothing is stored in the desktop. Everything remains on your phone." "- Is there a password protection similar to the keychain to access these passwords? We
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Probably. At this point we are testings things out and want to move as fast as possible. We want to make Two-Factor Authentication completely transparent, and we'll be launching other exciting things to see how they work in the real wo
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Hi, I'm Daniel, Authy Founder. We've worked almost 18 months on this product, it's surreal to finally see it out. Anyway, you can read more about why we did this here: http://blog.authy.com/thefuture
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Learning to Beat the Prisoner's Dilemma
(priceonomics.com)
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We released Authy-SSH last september and this was by far the biggest feature request. You will be shockingly surprised if you knew the names of the companies that not only share unix accounts (which is very common) but were actually sharing
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Facebook retargeting,why this is just the beginning of mobile monetization.
(tobiaspeggs.tumblr.com)
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Mailing It In
(avc.com)
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13y ago
I can explain difference between Loom and Dropbox. I am not affiliated to Loom, I am just a beta user. I am also a payed Dropbox customer. Dropbox is great for general purpose files, and files you edit (doc's, pdf's, etc). Is just
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13y ago
I'll chime in because theres a lot of mis-information here. My credentials: I am the founder of Authy, we do two-factor authentication using SMS, Phone Calls, TOTP App and Hardware Tokens - we protect over 80,000 accounts including Clo
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