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mwww | 12 years ago | on: KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager

I believe that instead of messing around with a known standard (username + password fields), it would be better if web services would implement two-factor authentication. Password managers would become useless then, because you would be able to use simple passwords that you may remember, while being even more secure.

mwww | 12 years ago | on: Google Has Ended a Bunch of Free Data

Google wants website owners to use Webmaster Tools so that it can connect websites with individuals. The end goal is to make it harder for people to manipulate search results in a way that would result in an inferior user experience for searchers.

For many years, Google has been a gold mine to a profession called "SEO". It still is, but every single day it is getting harder to extract value from it if all you do is trying to get your site to the top of the SERPs. Eventually it will be very expensive to trick Google and this is why I see many professional SEOs starting work at big brands or doing consulting for them. It's easier to get good rankings for a site that provides great value to users than for another spammy endeavor.

I was also involved in this business many years ago, but mainly to rank my sites that were getting traffic anyway because of the value they provided to users. Instead of being angry, I think that SEOs should be thankful that Google made it possible for them to take advantage of their service and even helped them along the way — I am. There is nothing wrong in charging people money for services that they use to make money themselves.

SEO should always only be a tool that helps you reach users with your quality product, not your main way of making a living because in itself it creates no value to society.

mwww | 12 years ago | on: Two-factor Authentication

It's great to see another big web service implementing two-factor authentication. Looks like 2FA is going to be a standard option in web apps in the near future.

mwww | 12 years ago | on: Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums site

Web services should be relying on passwords because that is a simple means of authentication that users already know and it keeps the services independent from a central identity provider. As we all know passwords alone can't protect us anymore though, so web services need to give their users an option to secure their accounts with a second factor. Thus in a few years I think that two-factor authentication is going to be a standard way of protecting our online accounts.

mwww | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?

The first $10k I made were from ads on websites (pay per view, pay per click, affiliate marketing). In the meantime I sold one of them and then moved to domain names (catching dropped domain names and then parking/reselling them; still own most of them). Then I've built the biggest tattoo community in Poland with over 500k fans on Facebook (currently only making revenue through ads; next month we'll release our first t-shirt). Now I'm concentrating on building an easier and more secure authentication solution for the web (using mobile phone based cryptography instead of passwords).
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