{"id":10248,"date":"2013-05-23T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2013-05-23T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:41:40","slug":"kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-and-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10248","title":{"rendered":"Kim Dotcom Threatens To Sue Google, Facebook And Twitter Over 2-Factor Authentication Patent If They Don&#8217;t Help Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So, a lot of people are talking about Kim Dotcom&#8217;s latest gambit, which was to point out that he holds a patent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US6078908\" target=\"_blank\">US 6,078,908<\/a> and apparently others in 12 other countries as well) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/5\/22\/4357500\/kim-dotcom-claims-he-invented-two-step-verification\" target=\"_blank\">covers the basics of two-factor authentication<\/a>, with a priority date of April of 1997. While interesting, he goes on to point out that he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimDotcom\/status\/337334129370734592\" target=\"_blank\">never sued over the patent<\/a> because &#8220;I believe in sharing knowledge and ideas for the good of society.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130523\/00174423181\/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml\">Kim Dotcom Threatens To Sue Google, Facebook And Twitter Over 2-Factor Authentication Patent If They Don&#8217;t Help Him | Techdirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a lot of people are talking about Kim Dotcom&#8217;s latest gambit, which was to point out that he holds a patent (US 6,078,908 and apparently others in 12 other countries as well) that covers the basics of two-factor authentication, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[414,749,406,34],"class_list":["post-10248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-authentication","tag-irony","tag-megaupload","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}