PhoneFactor video

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything, but I promise this is going to be worth it:
http://www.youtube.com/phonefactor
Thanks to Dan Leafblad for doing all the hard work to pull this together. And Shame on Evan Conway for making me wear a conehead hat. It looks… well… just watch the video…

Ars Technica on PhoneFactor

Ars Technica has a nice review of PhoneFactor up on the front page at the moment. I used to write for Ars, a couple of years ago, but I ran out of time to make a meaningful contribution. They really do have one of the best tech news sites around, though.
I’m trying to keep my […]

PhoneFactor day!

What a month. I knew June was going to be busy, but I had no idea it would simply disappear on me. But, as a result of all the hard work that my team and I have been up to, I can finally announce the public availability of PhoneFactor 1.0, as of July 2, 2007! […]

One last PhoneFactor post for the weekend

OK, one last post on PhoneFactor, and then I’ll try to get back to regularly scheduled programming.
I finally got a dedicated PhoneFactor blog set up; for those interested, it’s at blog.phonefactor.net. I have had to fight with WordPress 2.2 quite a bit to get all of the feeds working, and I’ll probably switch to FeedBurner […]

Translated version of the Japanese PhoneFactor article

Someone at my office had the bright idea of using Google to translate. Man, I work with some really bright people!
Translated article.

It’s neat.

Wow, what an amazing 24 hours! I’ve been doing everything from coding to PR to writing for the website to… well, you get the idea. PhoneFactor has caused quite a splash already at Interop, and we’ve been getting some really good press out of it.
One of my favorite quotes is this one, from an Infoworld […]

PhoneFactor: Free two-factor authentication for everyone!

After months of development and a couple of years of research and planning, I’m thrilled to announce that Positive Networks is readying its new two-factor authentication service, PhoneFactor, for launch this summer.
PhoneFactor is a phone-based two-factor authentication system. It works like this:

A user enters her normal username and password and logs in
Immediately, the system places […]

What I’ve been up to lately

I’ve been heads-down for the past six months focusing virtually all of my attention on two very special projects.
Tomorrow, Positive Networks will be announcing its newest service to the world: a two-factor authentication service for everyone. Readers of my blog will recognize by now that I’ve never been a fan of usernames and passwords, and […]