Opin

13/12/2012

Another day, another exploit: SQL injection attacks like this one usually target login credentials in the database. With Opin, those values would be very boring to look at: the password column would be empty.

Login details from 1.6 million accounts at Nasa, the FBI and Interpol have been posted on the web by hacktivist group Ghost Shell.

12/12/2012

Talent showcase: Our COO and iOS lead developer Richard recently submitted his first app to the Mac App Store. It allows you to share links easily via Bonjour, and it's also a beautiful piece of software. Go check it out!

Get The Great Link on the Mac App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.

10/12/2012

So today we want to share a slide from one of our investor decks with you. It illustrates one of the many basic flaws with passwords: no matter what you try to make them safe, real people will find a way to make it easy instead.

This password satisfies the default security policy in Windows, so it's no surprise that it's a popular pick among many users. (Even some people we presented to had this guilty expression on their faces when the slide came up, fun moment!)

Microsoft has some interesting data on how people deal with passwords in an environment that just keeps on requiring more and more of them. It's a very interesting read:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74164/www2007.pdf

Any of this sound familiar to you? Share your approach to passwords with us in the comments!

10/12/2012

Hey :-)

Thank you all for showing us your love with your likes and messages! It's been a special couple of days for us since we went public with Opin. We've been biting our nails over the past few weeks and months to get this in front of you, and we can't wait to hear your thoughts and ideas. So keep coming back, tell us what you think, and talk about us to your friends!

09/12/2012

Sneak Peek: We speak Chinese! :)

09/12/2012

"Password entropy is rarely relevant. The real modern danger is password reuse."

xkcd outlines a fascinating business model: