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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Kim Dotcom claims patent on multiple-factor
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Thu May 23 11:32:04 2013
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:13:34 -0700
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Kim Dotcom claims patent on multiple-factor authentication system [BUT ...]
"Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me"
http://j.mp/12xVgB1 (TorrentFreak)
The patent, US6078908 titled Method for authorizing in data
transmission systems, was filed way back in April 1998 and published
in June 2000 under Dotcom's birth name of Kim Schmitz. There can be
little doubt from the patent's abstract that it does indeed describe a
two-step verification system. "Google, Facebook, Twitter, Citibank,
etc. offer Two-Step-Authentication," writes Dotcom. "Massive IP
infringement by U.S. companies. My innovation. My patent."
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He does have a patent, but it's unlikely to be enforceable since
relevant prior art (going back to 1983 and certainly earlier) is
easily discovered and documented with a simple Google Search.
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