Poll: Would you like a "Panic button" service to lock down your online accounts?
A few years ago I was one of the founders of Clickpass which offered a consumer single-sign-on service. There were lots of challenges with it. One of the overarching problems though was monetisation. It's very hard to make revenue from such a service and therefore to improve it.
Long after the company had been acquired I kept thinking about security and it occurred to me that one of the fears after an attack is worrying "what else is vulnerable". Your GMail account is compromised, what does someone get into next?
It occurred to me that it might be useful to have a "Panic button" or "Deadbolt" service which you could quickly access (after suitable authentication) and which would immediately lock down all your accounts, change their passwords and prevent any cascading attacks. You could pre-register all your accounts, even the esoteric ones you might normally forget and lock them all in via a single SMS (or similar).
I'm interested in what the sentiment of the developer community is. Is this something you would want?
Long after the company had been acquired I kept thinking about security and it occurred to me that one of the fears after an attack is worrying "what else is vulnerable". Your GMail account is compromised, what does someone get into next?
It occurred to me that it might be useful to have a "Panic button" or "Deadbolt" service which you could quickly access (after suitable authentication) and which would immediately lock down all your accounts, change their passwords and prevent any cascading attacks. You could pre-register all your accounts, even the esoteric ones you might normally forget and lock them all in via a single SMS (or similar).
I'm interested in what the sentiment of the developer community is. Is this something you would want?