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Kim Dotcom\u00a0enters the spotlight once again after claiming<\/a> that Google, Facebook, Citibank and Twitter, among others, infringe upon his patent for two-factor authentication. The man is\u00a0one of the founders of controversial\u00a0Megaupload<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mega<\/a>\u00a0cloud storage lockers and is currently under indictment in the US for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n Dotcom decided to reveal<\/a> the alleged wrongdoing and mention the patent<\/a>\u00a0yesterday, after Twitter enabled the security feature<\/a>: “Twitter introduces Two-Step-Authentication. Using my invention. But they won’t even verify my Twitter account?!”. The patent in question was filed in 1998 by Kim Schmitz (Dotcom’s birth name) and is named<\/a> “Method for authorizing in data transmission systems”.<\/p>\n The patent describes the procedures involved in deploying two-step authentication: “The invention relates to a method and to a device for the authorization in data transmission systems employing a transaction authorization number (TAN) or a comparable password”.<\/p>\n Although the man initially mentioned suing<\/a>\u00a0the alleged infringing companies, Dotcom later said<\/a> that he’s actually looking for funds: “Google, Facebook, Twitter, I ask you for help. We are all in the same DMCA boat. Use my patent for free. But please help funding my defense”.<\/p>\n Dotcom hints<\/a> at a considerable amount: “All of our assets are still frozen without trial. Defending our case will cost USD 50M+. I want to fight to the end because we are innocent”.<\/p>\n The man also tweeted<\/a> that interested parties can purchase the rights to use his patent: “Want to buy the world wide license to my two-factor-authentication patent? (13 countries incl. US & China) Email: twitter@kim.com”.<\/p>\n Google, Facebook, Citibank and Twitter are just some of the major companies using two-factor authentication. Others like Dropbox, Apple and Microsoft have also enabled the Considering that two-factor authentication is widely used across a number of popular services and adds an effective security blanket, Dotcom may have a considerable advantage if he decides to go to court.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Arcady<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n Kim Dotcom\u00a0enters the spotlight once again after claiming that Google, Facebook, Citibank and Twitter, among others, infringe upon his patent for two-factor authentication. The man is\u00a0one of the founders of controversial\u00a0Megaupload\u00a0and\u00a0Mega\u00a0cloud storage lockers and is currently under indictment in the US for copyright infringement. Dotcom decided to reveal the alleged wrongdoing and mention the patent\u00a0yesterday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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