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Show HN: Neko.io - pretty secret sharing(neko.io)
8 points by markkum 15y ago|5 comments
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by markkum 15y ago
What drives me to start ups is something like self-expression. There's no-one else's expectations to worry about, just my own big ones (which exceeds the investors' :-). The feeling when those expectations are even partially fulfilled is am
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by markkum 15y ago
Passwords are painful for the users, and not good for service providers either; https://www.mepin.com/2011/09/26/7-problems-with-usernames-a... Support OpenID!
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by markkum 15y ago
Having done business in China and knowing a little bit how some of the good people there think; my bet is that the square pattern(s) which looks like Voronoi diagram are just a Chinese version of the Crop circles http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by markkum 15y ago
You are right. The sentences were hastily written. The hardware key is in private beta and will be publicly available soon. We have evaluated half a dozen smartcard technology vendors and are partnering with a couple of them, so we can deli
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by markkum 15y ago
Good smartcard in general cannot be copied and it will not work without the user's pin code. It can also lock itself if the pin code is entered wrong too many times. But most importantly, the keys/certificates inside the smartcard can be re
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by markkum 15y ago
Umm ... your conclusion is kind of funny and wrong. You might not be familiar with cryptography, modern smartcard technologies, and how those can actually keep a secret. I agree with your assessment on facial recognition and fingerprints, t
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by markkum 15y ago
Phishing is the biggest risk/threat. An average user is typing in his username and password if presented with a decently familiar login form no matter what the browser address bar or the rest of the web page says. Unfortunately the PayPal a
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by markkum 15y ago
We currently support OpenID, so any site/service supporting OpenID works with the Mepin keys. Sadly there are a lot of shaky OpenID implementations out there, so yes the implementation is a challenge. And I do also agree that we will never
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by markkum 15y ago
Our USB key cannot be easily, if at all, copied. It's based on smartcard technology used by banks and governments around the world. It's not a memory stick.
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by markkum 15y ago
Good article, though the whole premise of people being forced to manage passwords is screwed. We are working hard at Mepin - www.mepin.com - to get rid of passwords one by one. Our premise is that people are much more capable of managing a
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Seriously, usernames & passwords are bad for business(mepin.com)
2 points by markkum 15y ago|0 comments
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7 problems with usernames & passwords for consumers(mepin.com)
1 points by markkum 15y ago|0 comments
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by markkum 15y ago
I did work very closely with the product development, however actually my question was why the title Business Development seems to give negative vibes for people? And is this the case all over the world? The job I was denied btw was a sales
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by markkum 15y ago
I fully understand and agree with Steve's point against hiring sales people before finding the product/market fit. However, at least in my mind, in a bit larger organization it is the Business Development people who continues to do the cust
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Steve Blank - What's wrong with business development?
6 points by markkum 15y ago|5 comments
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by markkum 15y ago
I had my worst burnout symptoms at a 9-to-5 job after I sold my first startup. That's how I realized I'm an entrepreneur. I left the job and the lockup shares, and have since been happy, sometimes rich/stressless sometimes poor/stressed, 24
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by markkum 15y ago
You should look at two-factor authentication solutions to solve many of these issues. For example https://www.mepin.com is a two-factor authentication service free to integrate and use for the websites. It supports standard OpenID interfa
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by markkum 15y ago
This is exactly what we are building here; https://www.mepin.com The private key is generated and stored in a smarphone or separate USB smartcard, so that normal users don't have to manage their private keys.
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Break away from usernames and passwords(mepin.com)
1 points by markkum 15y ago|0 comments