Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 10:51 AM EDT |
I support him in this endeavor. I don't know if this
threat is going to
impress the companies he is threatening,
but they should pitch in and help.
They are all fighting a
common enemy - the MAFIAA and government
corruption. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 12:47 PM EDT |
Method for authorizing in data transmission systems
https://www.google.com/patents/US6078908[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 01:30 PM EDT |
Dotcom does have a US patent (using
his original name of Kim Schmitz) on two-factor authentication, filed in 1998
and granted in 2000. He also used to have an equivalent patent in
Europe. But Dotcom's European patent was revoked in 2011 largely because AT&T had a patent on the same technology with a priority date from 1995.
(Thanks to Emily Weal of patent law firm Keltie for pointing out Dotcom's
European patent travails in the IP Copy blog.)
Jon Brodkin, ars
technica[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 23 2013 @ 07:34 PM EDT |
how could there be a patent on something so obvious ?
It is a simple extension of calling someone back when you do not trust that
(s)he really is as claimed.
Allthough dotcom may well be wrongly treated, these sort of threats won't gain
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 09:59 AM EDT |
Back when I ran a BBS, this was the procedure to get on, and stay
on my BBS:
* User logs in;
* User is promptly disconnected;
* My BBS called the user;
* User logs in again;
* User is promptly disconnected;
* User logs in;
* User stays connected;
The differences between that and two-step authentication are:
* User has to log in three times;
* The connection/reconnection was using the same pair of wires;
The documentation had an example of configuring the BBS to
send a message to a pager. This was mainly used to tell the
Sysop that somebody was trying to hack the system. However, it
also could send pages when people logged in, or logged out.
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There was another BBS that upon logging in, callers were
automatically disconnected, and had to wait for a voice call, to
give them the name and password to login under.
All of which is a round about way of saying that in the late-
eighties, and early nineties, people were looking at ways of
securing connections, that went beyond a simple login with
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 02:25 PM EDT |
But did Dotcom really invent 2FA for remote authentication?
In short, it appears he did not.
In 1996, the then-Kim Schmitz filed for
a patent entitled "Method
for authorizing in data transmission systems". The patent has a priority date of
29 April 1997, and it does indeed describe a two-factor authentication system.
The user logs into a service, triggers a secondary authentication request, and
this is fulfilled by SMS.
But Ericsson filed a patent titled
"User authentication method and apparatus" with a priority date of 24 June
1994 that also covered 2FA using a pager or phone. A later patent filed by Nokia
["Method for obtaining at least one item of user authentication data"] with a
priority date of 23 February 1996 resembles even more closely the 2FA approach
used on the web today.
Ken
Tindell, The Register[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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