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There's been a number of ideas for centralising online passwords, security etc.
Probably about time some bigger players stepped in to underwrite your losses should you fall foul of online fraud.
mylifeinyourhands.com would look after all your security aggregation needs and link through to our recommended
content aggregators.
As the basis for interaction with the site, we provide a hardware signature (or TPM) bound icon on your desktop to which you can drag any url to launch secured payment options. We will only guarantee payments going through this mechanism, but the whole point is that you have only one icon to remember and trust.
The same icon will underwrite downloads i.e. should our staff get it wrong about the malicious nature of the download we pay for a new computer.
Of course we also offer a backup service which collects your local and cloud data and stores it on media not suspended by hot air.
If the above description still fails then consider one out of many suppliers that offer hassle free computing for users who will willingly confess "I have no fricking clue what computers are all about". Click -
[Yes, it sounds good and its highlighted as default]
[No, sounds negative]
[What does it really mean if I click either one ? Could you explain in under a year ?]
See what I mean ? Some underwriting is due. No more, "we sell millions of copies of this software so we would be stupid to sell them as bug free or liable for any damages resulting from the use of."
It's a weird gulf that has grown in computing between product and normal consumer rights.
passwordReminder.com
passwordReminder_2ecom
Inspired by [bigsleep, Oct 07 2009]
TPM - Trusted Platform Module
http://en.wikipedia...ted_Platform_Module
A hardware authentication & crypto chip. [jutta, Oct 07 2009]
[link]
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Sorry for the delay, I posted the link before writing it up. |
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It would be a tough job for this service to be aware of every
fraudulent website. For example, you respond to a phishing
email and go to a fake PayPal site at www.criminals.ru - how
does this service know that you shouldn't be typing your
PayPal name and password into the phishing website? Or is
the principle that, having signed up to this, you never type
your name and password in anywhere and
mylifeinyourhands.com acts as a sort of proxy for all forms of
authentication? |
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// as a sort of proxy for all forms of authentication?// |
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Software companies offer these services but do not have the guts to underwrite use (but do quite a good job). |
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Banks have single domain websites that you can trust and do to a certain extent underwrite online losses. |
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Download centres are mostly diligent and do a great job of protecting the user. |
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Yet still there is no 'common sense' user protection. Trust 'Barcays Bank' ? [Yes] [No] [Oops] |
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Combining the above expertise and underwritten, you could specify like any other policy a personal liability e.g. £100. If that were the case, I would have no trouble conducting high finance transactions online where-ever. As it stands I still triple check the short-cut to my online bank. |
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I like it. Has your company figured a cost for the service? Are we talking £100/yr or £1000/mo? |
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//Are we talking £100/yr or £1000/mo?// |
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Regional certificates or domains, yep £100/year is possible. |
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// The same icon will underwrite downloads i.e. should our staff get it wrong about the malicious nature of the download we pay for a new computer. |
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Since when is the remedy for a virus-infected computer to buy a new computer? And how does that get me my software and data back? |
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The general approach has a place, but I think you underestimate the cost, and there are lots of problems that this doesn't fix. Imagine doing tech support for *that* place... Basically, I think we need the Internet platform equivalent of assisted living. |
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re data recovery, its in the idea but I shouldn't have made it optional. |
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//The general approach has a place, but I think you underestimate the cost, and there are lots of problems that this doesn't fix. // |
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Yes there are holes in the idea, but what struck me is that most people who know what they are doing can cope by using firewalls, browser blockers, safe download sites etc.So I'm probably describing a new OS product that is not designed for cryptographic security, but common-sense security that encapsulates the average competent user's knowledge. |
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