I founded Haventec with good friend Tony Castagna after considering why we use public keys to secure all our web communications ie https) but then refuse to use it as a way of verifying the connected persons identity.
It was a mystery to me why peopl...
Ric Richardson
Posted on August 30th, 2019
New York veteran advertising exec Frank Zazza asked me to help him work out how to link advertisers to consumers to basically stop click fraud and make online advertising conpanies more transparent and accountable.
Aug 2019- nearly ready to file.
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Ric Richardson
Posted on August 26th, 2019
Most Friday mornings Ric works with, or on, inventions or projects for other inventors needing help. For some time he would frequent a local cafe in Byron Bay and speak to inventors for from 20 minutes to an hour. Some of them would travel interstate t...
Ric Richardson
Posted on August 26th, 2019
Ric and his wife Karen have a cause that they have decided to support with 100% of their extra funds. They have explored the organisation thoroughly and are fully confident that their contribution will be honourably and carefully used.
Please respect ...
Ric Richardson
Posted on August 25th, 2019
Ive just added some notes here for attendees to this years EIS to look up some of the resources I use or allude to in my talk this year.
Firstly I talk about how all problem solving is "connecting the dots" but that innovation goes a bit further by co...
Ric Richardson
Posted on August 25th, 2019
Let me start out by declaring that I am no longer an officer or an employee of Uniloc and have not been so since 2007. That being said it is also true that Uniloc has not made a practise of taking other peoples patents and litigating on their behalf.
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Ric Richardson
Posted on May 1st, 2019
https://ift.tt/2RPZC7i If you're an American of European descent there's a 60% you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is information your relatives have made public...
Ric Richardson
Posted on October 15th, 2018
Byron Bay Lighthouse Sunrise
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Ric Richardson
Posted on October 15th, 2018
Graduated InventionsUniloc (1992) - software activation and try and buy company that now licenses and manages an IP Portfolioof over 200 patents.Haventec (2015) - true passwordless logon and serverless credit card number storage for merchants. SuperKer...
Ric Richardson
Posted on October 15th, 2018
Through all that rain is famous surf spot Lennox Head. Mission today is to finalise our latest version of browser and device fingerprinting. In other words using non-user-configurable device information to make a unique fingerprint for the browser or t...
Ric Richardson
Posted on October 14th, 2018
George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future - YouTube
Note from Ric: This gentleman is amazingly insightful but it takes patience to understand his terminology… shortly I will add some highlights to look at but his insights into the...
Ric Richardson
Posted on October 14th, 2018
Yes. But some would argue otherwise, and here is why they are wrong.
Multi-factor authentication technically means the use of multiple factors in an authentication. A factor can be “something you know", “something you have" or “something you are".
Ev...
Ric Richardson
Posted on September 21st, 2018
Are you irritated with trying to use SIRI to record your voice?
Dumping ideas or dictating a response to an email become laborious if you have to pussy foot around SIRI’s transcription limitations.
Maybe you are like me where the ideas I come up with a...
Ric Richardson
Posted on April 29th, 2018
A big concern for anyone seriously considering an ICO (initial coin offering) is recent rulings in the US and especially the SEC regarding the view that an ICO is a securities offering and therefore should be handled through a public trading exchange s...
Ric Richardson
Posted on April 12th, 2018
Recently a local entrepreneur “Chris Bird" and I have been working on how to use a shipping container as a local delivery hub for end users to use as a convenient drop off point for couriers. The results have been mixed but there is a silver lining. Th...
Ric Richardson
Posted on April 12th, 2018
Some months ago I developed a technique of modifying an operating system so that it wouldnt run rogue applications. Its not white listing and its not blacklisting. In the lab weve been calling it freezing.
I designed it after Elon Musk said that a fl...
Ric Richardson
Posted on April 12th, 2018
For over a year I have been cogitating the problem of forcing a traditional block chain (that is designed to handle digital financial transactions) to handle logistical transactions which are a lot mire complex….
And about a month or so back the cloud...
Ric Richardson
Posted on April 12th, 2018
When we first worked on solving the password problem we focussed on clients connecting to servers. i.e. People logging onto to web servers. But since that time we have also worked out how to avoid using passwords when connecting server to server and wh...
Ric Richardson
Posted on April 12th, 2018
I’ve been asked to speak at this years BrisSec conference and gladly obliged. It’s been a while since I shared war stories but as time passes I find myself reaping benefit upon benefit and will do my best to share some of them with you if you can make ...
Ric Richardson
Posted on March 22nd, 2018