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bounty-hunters-pay-for-performance-economics-and

Posted by: admin 15 years, 7 months ago

There have been some interesting discussions about incenting judges to set bails appropriately and on the impact commercial bail bondsmen have on the 'failure to appear' rates. I first read about it in the Financial Times Undercover Economist column. The original post I found on Marginal Revolution

bob-blakely-and-radovan-semanek-on-the-end-of

Posted by: admin 15 years, 7 months ago

Bob Blakely and Radovan Semančík are blogging about two-factor authentication and the problems with passwords. Bob thinks we should get rid of passwords this decade. Radovan thinks that it may be harder than that.

better-password-strength-just-one-factordeleteme

Posted by: admin 15 years, 7 months ago

Pete over at Spire Security points out the obvvious(which alluded me):

As far as I can tell, Bruce Schneier's current Wired column, MySpace Passwords Aren't So Dumb, is intended to be taken seriously. The article is supposed to be about how "good" passwords on MySpace are these days, and there isn't a hint of irony in his statement:

"But seriously, passwords are getting better."

I am at a loss to explain how he can come to this conclusion when every single one of the 34,000 passwords he analyzed were stolen through a phishing attack. What he should have said was: "This shows that a 1-character password (the shortest they harvested) is just as secure as a 32-character password (the longest they harvested)"

He also points out that if you're not going to do two-factor authentication, then don't worry about long passwords. If any data is important enough or vulnerable enough to require a strong and therefore annoying password policy, use two-factor authentication.

blogdrums

Posted by: admin 15 years, 7 months ago

I have had a bad case of the blogdrums, plus we've been busy working on our 3.0 release. We have just opened to the public our 3.0 beta release in an RPM version. So if you want to play around with two-factor authentication and help us out, please download.

buyability-and-usability

Posted by: admin 15 years, 7 months ago

Today we turned on online purchasing for WiKID Strong Authentication licenses. It is a bit of an experiment in "buyability". A big hat tip to Dharmesh Shah's post on Usability vs. Buyability to clarify this point for me. We had focused on ease of use. We have provided ASP scripts that automate the two-factor roll-out process, for example and have an incredibly easy to use Web-interface on the WiKID server (IMHO - another hat tip to Brian Dame ;). We have attempted to take the risk out of buying WiKID by having an open-source version and by having a trial version of the commercial server available for download from the extranet. And we have set up a way to test the WiKID two-factor tokens without even providing an email address.

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