Sci/Tech Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: "I Own Security Patent, Work With Me"

[tom_mai78101]

Kim Dotcom has announced that he is the inventor of the so-called two-step authentication system and has a patent to prove it. The Megaupload founder says the security mechanism, which has just been introduced by Twitter, is being used by U.S. companies more than a billion times every week without permission. Dotcom says he doesn’t want to sue, but might if the likes of Google and Facebook don’t help fund his legal battle with the U.S. Government.

While the United States Government paints Kim Dotcom as some kind of international super criminal, the Megaupload founder sees himself rather differently.

Continually over the past year and half, and particularly since his January 2012 arrest in New Zealand, the German-born entrepreneur has described himself as an innovator, someone who creates rather than destroys as the U.S. would have people believe.

Dotcom’s achievements are many and his cloud storage companies past and present have certainly generated hundreds of headlines. However, it seems that the New Zealand resident’s creative mind was already working overtime more than 15 years ago to come up with an idea that is now gaining serious traction online.

Two-step authentication is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to online accounts. If a user logs into a service from an unusual device or location, the service sends a message containing a password to a trusted device such as a cellphone. This enables the service to authenticate the access and allow the log in.

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[Accname]

I kinda like it i must say.
Although i dont have any information in what kind of legal troubles he actually is.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Earlier this year he said that mega.com will go online. He said that he has a special method of encryptioning data, so that no one could trace back. I didn't quite get the legal issue, but he said that by doing so, he practically makes himself immune to sues and other legal shit.

So... Why does he need help?

 

[FireCat]

Sounds more like "Give me money or I'll sue you"

 

[Accname]

Sounds more like "Give me money or I'll sue you"

Actually he really holds the patent since 1998. He has every right to sue, and all "normal" persons would have sued already. If suckerbourg had the patent he would have sued the shit out of google and twitter.

But this guy didnt. But now he is in desperate need of money. Its said that he needs to pay 50 million.
But instead of sueing he is giving google, facebook, twitter and co the chance to just "buy" the right to use his patent without going to court. Which is also a nice move.
I really dont see what your problem is. Actually, what he does seems good so far.

 

[FireCat]

Actually he really holds the patent since 1998. He has every right to sue, and all "normal" persons would have sued already. If suckerbourg had the patent he would have sued the shit out of google and twitter.

But this guy didnt. But now he is in desperate need of money. Its said that he needs to pay 50 million.
But instead of sueing he is giving google, facebook, twitter and co the chance to just "buy" the right to use his patent without going to court. Which is also a nice move.
I really dont see what your problem is. Actually, what he does seems good so far.

Well, it doesn't make him look better.

Btw:

Dotcom does have a US patent (using his original name of Kim Schmitz) on two-factor authentication, filed in 1998 and granted in 2000. He also used to have an equivalent patent in Europe. But Dotcom's European patent was revoked in 2011 largely because AT&T had a patent on the same technology with a priority date from 1995.

Patent Dotcom aka Kim Schmitz.