#authentication

Would a Product Authentication & Certification System Help Small Businesses Fight Copycats?

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Would a Product Authentication & Certification System Help Small Businesses Fight Copycats? Small businesses & independent sellers – I need insights for a University Project. It seems like outright stopping copying is nearly impossible patents are expensive and hard to enforce, and knockoffs flood the market quickly. How do you think a certification system for your products be useful for authenticity (maybe like a COA) ? The idea is to…

Reddit ecommerce 858 2025-02-26

How to convince google to be serious about biometric authentication to stop thieves?

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How to convince google to be serious about biometric authentication to stop thieves? I’m from Brazil and thieves force you to tell your PIN with a gun to your head then take your phone. Android always allows for the fingerprint to be bypassed by the PIN so there’s no way to protect from this. Also they get into your messaging apps and start asking relatives for money, not to mention looking for photos for extortion. People’s ban…

Reddit Android 1.2k 2025-01-22

LPT: Use a phone you don’t use anymore for 2 factor authentication and leave it in a safe place.

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LPT: Use a phone you don’t use anymore for 2 factor authentication and leave it in a safe place. My phone was stolen yesterday. Thankfully my Authenticator app containing OTPs for various accounts was in an old phone that I don’t take out of the house anymore. There were some accounts that were tied to my number which was stolen so the thief kept trying to reset my passwords using OTPs from my stolen SIM card. It was a pain trying to secure…

Life Pro Tips 1.3k 2024-12-29

Expedia just logged me into someone else’s account via my own authentication code

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Expedia just logged me into someone else’s account via my own authentication code So I was trying to log into Expedia to view my trips, as I had just reserved a rental car earlier tonight and wanted to change some info on my itinerary. They sent me a 6-digit code to my email, which I then returned and put into the security prompt to log in. It came up with a “Continue” button, which I clicked and then it started loading. Then…

Reddit Travel 137 2023-10-08

How does PIN authentication work with contactless payments?

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How does PIN authentication work with contactless payments? I figured I’d ask this here, because there are a bunch of very smart people on this sub. I couldn’t find the answer by Googling, except for some very handwavy explanations. With chip & pin (not contactless), the chip signs the payment, its private key never leaves the chip, and it can’t be read or copied. When you enter your pin on a terminal, t…

Reddit Personal Finance 267 2023-07-23