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Title: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: ThomasDB on November 15, 2013, 02:27:57 PM
We will obviously discuss Bitcoin among other things, but I need some advice.

Thus far I've thought of:

-It would be natural to accept Bitcoins for a company that offers computer security and they could be first?
-There is probably a future market for some inbuilt Bitcoin security possibilities within antivirus software's, on both PC and mobile.
-Antivirus companies have a self interest in Bitcoin growing, because it would make computer security even more important.
-Adopting it could earn them a lot of support and PR

Anyone else have something that would be worth to bring up?


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: franky1 on November 15, 2013, 05:20:26 PM
imagine antivirus companies software activation key, now replace that activation key with a public bitcoin key. (antivirus companies keep the private key)

customers can then pay the yearly subscription by paying into the key....

this activation / public key is madeup by a secret random bunch of numbers that only AV companyknows. with bits of information from the customers registration details. (like how brain wallet works)

EG

sjfskdjflsdlfj;sldkjfskj slkdjf;lsdf;skadjfklsdjfs;alfj;sfj;lsdjfs;lkdfj;1600PennsylvaniaAveNWWashingtonDCObama

becomes
1AGA9GqKhaDfTUZxyAREx9y6CWf3iv7U4k activation/pubkey.

now that key is linked to one person (obama) and makes it easy for obama to pay his renewal, or retrieve the activation key using his address and name.

this way people cannot just grab any random key from a keygen to get a free subscription


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: Gabi on November 15, 2013, 05:24:47 PM
And some antivirus softwares still detect miners as "virus"  :D


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: Buffer Overflow on November 15, 2013, 05:29:27 PM
imagine antivirus companies software activation key, now replace that activation key with a public bitcoin key. (antivirus companies keep the private key)

customers can then pay the yearly subscription by paying into the key....

this activation / public key is madeup by a secret random bunch of numbers that only AV companyknows. with bits of information from the customers registration details. (like how brain wallet works)

EG

sjfskdjflsdlfj;sldkjfskj slkdjf;lsdf;skadjfklsdjfs;alfj;sfj;lsdjfs;lkdfj;1600PennsylvaniaAveNWWashingtonDCObama

becomes
1AGA9GqKhaDfTUZxyAREx9y6CWf3iv7U4k activation/pubkey.

now that key is linked to one person (obama) and makes it easy for obama to pay his renewal, or retrieve the activation key using his address and name.

this way people cannot just grab any random key from a keygen to get a free subscription

Excellent idea.


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: kwest on November 15, 2013, 05:32:52 PM
First off, I love Kaspersky. IMO they're the best in the business.
Wouldn't it be sweet if they came out with their own secure wallet software? Or cooperated with something like Armory to make it even more robust.


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: Abdussamad on November 15, 2013, 05:49:10 PM
Anyone else have something that would be worth to bring up?

How excited are they about the money they will make because of new types of viruses and malware like Cryptolocker?


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: Buffer Overflow on November 15, 2013, 07:08:44 PM
Anyone else have something that would be worth to bring up?

How excited are they about the money they will make because of new types of viruses and malware like Cryptolocker?

Maybe they design and launch most of the viruses. Would be good business sense.




Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: Rluner on November 15, 2013, 07:29:31 PM
First off, I love Kaspersky. IMO they're the best in the business.
Wouldn't it be sweet if they came out with their own secure wallet software? Or cooperated with something like Armory to make it even more robust.

They could make a lot from this I would guess.


Title: Re: I'm having lunch with someone who works high up in Kaspersky
Post by: bitjoint on November 15, 2013, 07:51:08 PM

Maybe they design and launch most of the viruses. Would be good business sense.


srsly, who hasnt thought about this before?  :D