We are very secure and make sure to cover many angles to insure your data can never be compromised. Many often ask what exactly we do to make the data so secure. Unfortunately, one of the things that makes the site so secure is that we do not disclose the exact encryption practices.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
It's also a bit weird that it's apparently two unrelated products in one. Pinterest and LastPass: two great tastes that taste great together?
"insure": Provide insurance coverage. Arrange for compensation in the event of damage to or loss of (property), or injury to or the death of (someone), in exchange for...: "the car is insured for loss or damage"
"ensure": Make certain that (something) shall occur or be the case.
Holy mackerel, you're right:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:newyorker.com+insure
At first I thought, "Well, but the New Yorker does have a few quirks" - but the analogous search for the NYT shows that they do it too.
I always assumed "insure" for "ensure" was a sign of illiteracy. What's that thing called in psychology where the brain edits out incongruent things and just doesn't see them? I must have been doing that with "insure" for years.
"https://mysocialcloud.com/aboutus In addition, our site utilizes advanced encryption to ensure your information is always secure"
"How secure is MySocialCloud.com? From day one, it has been our goal to provide the best security on the web. While we don't expose how we keep MySocialCloud secure (if we told you, it would be unsecured!), we do ensure that not even our employees are able to see any of your sensitive data."
One of their videos shows a bookmarket so I'm going to presume they're using that for somekind of encryption clientside with AES???
Mentor them and who knows, you may get to meet Sir. Richard someday and gain his interest in your own projects! (but dont make this the goal of reaching out to them)
That's not what "embrace and extend" means. To give a hint, it typically has a third part: "... and extinguish."
I don't think so. If you start a business and you neither have a clue about your core product - i.e. security - nor care about asking someone who does, you better fail soon and the world will be a better place. There are too many wannabes already, don't you think?
You don't just "start" on passwords/usernames - seriously it's not a game (but I suppose consumers ask for it if they trust a bunch of kids).
Look at all the password leaks over the last couple of years and you'll realise it's not a damn game - you really need to know what you're doing. Especially if that's your core value proposition.
Security is not a "move fast and break things" start-up.
It's a "don't screw up or you'll get sued into the ground" start-up.
- Scott... got the idea when his computer crashed and he lost a spreadsheet containing all his usernames and passwords.
Using this as a story to explain his startup is awful. So, you are running a tool to manage passwords, where you previously stored everything in a spreadsheet? This guy obviously knows a lot about security. Where can I sign up?
Clearly, with a bland but fairly descriptive name like MySocialCloud, they are not targeting paranoid geeks (the ones who worry about details like "who's running this service?", and would rather use services going by dorky names with random missing vowels), they are targeting the common man who stores passwords in spreadsheets. They are scratching an itch they themselves had, which is often how you validate your own business plan. I don't see why they should be ridiculed for it.
(This said, the whole post is just planted marketing of the lowest quality. Hardly HN-worthy, if you ask me.)
Problem is: he doesn't know how to help, yet people are going to trust him because they don't know better. I'd bet they are going to store their users' password on an Excel spreadsheet, but they will take care to backup it often ;-)
There is LastPass already, and they are doing a great job. Competition is good, but why should we support clueless competitors?
That said, I'd bet MySocialCloud.com will succeed. Worse is better, isn't it? And now they have lots of money.
I don't know dude, sounds super secure to me.
Dropbox started because of frustration over college documents that kept getting misplaced or lost. This guy obviously knows a lot about backups. Where can I sign up?
- Crap buzzword filled domain name. Check.
- All encompassing vague idea. Check.
- Young computer whizzkids. Check.
- 1 millllion dollars. Check.
Hell, there is a lot of things you can glue together, but these aren't ones.
Then these kids come along and did a msterful job at getting the ear of Richard and others and you guys shit all over them.
The name sucks - the idea, I cant comment on as I havent even looked at their site - but I am sure, being 19 and 20, they have a LONG career ahead of them and lets hope they continue to think up new things and with having a connection with Richard at this early phase of their lives that is fantastic.
By world I mean human society. Physics/Maths is logical, but the people that inhabit it do not have such restrictive constraints.
Everybody lies. Incentives rule.
They saw a tweet advertising an event which Branson would be at, borrowed several thousands of dollars from their parents to attend the event, and used that opportunity to get an email address that was capable of reaching Richard Branson, which they used over a period of time to develop some sort of relationship with him and another (Murdoch), and through a series of pitches both in person and remote, they secured initial funding.
How about designing computers that crash when users try to store usernames and passwords on them. Users will eventually learn to stop doing that.
What a ride this must have been so far. They're doing a great job getting their name out there, that's for sure. An investment from Richard Branson and a co-founder of Photobucket, plus this article in Yahoo Small Business that is now trending the HN front page. I hope they're able to take this massive opportunity they've been given and turn it into a successful business.
It's a Pinterest/Delicious/LastPass mashup, and while I would not trust them with my passwords (they really should rephrase that explanation, or give a real overview of their security measures), there are plenty of people who will (my parents still store their passwords in simple text files :-)).
If they add RSS-reader functionality, I can actually see myself using the site as a home page!
I believe it's got potential - they'll have to work hard on the marketing and keeping even or ahead of the competition, though...
Sounds like a good idea to entrust him with all your passwords then.
