Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
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Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#2Anyone has insights into how trustworthy is Yubico?
Their firmware is opaque, not shared outside the company, so is their hardware (important for RNGs etc).
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#3Time to crank the monetizing tap, add a mandatory monthly subscription to everything and deprecate well-working gear
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#4(ACQ Bure is a SPAC.)
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#5Anyone has insights into how trustworthy is Yubico? Their firmware is opaque, not shared outside the company, so is their hardware (important for RNGs etc).
Very. They are a tiny Swedish company that pay for top talent, are quite active and hands-on in the netsec community. It's not a faceless corporation with a Chinese PO Box.
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#6Time to crank the monetizing tap, add a mandatory monthly subscription to everything and deprecate well-working gear
You could buy a programmable open source security key instead, they recently opened their shop. https://tillitis.se/ Some of the people behind Mullvad VPN are associated with it.
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#7I have an irrational concern about using security products from a company post-merger or acquisition. It has never ended well for me as an anecdotal user. Going public is taking that worry even further.
Make keys, sell keys. The end. What's there to raise funding for? Build yet another password vault?
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#8Time for an open source u2f token.
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#9(ACQ Bure is a SPAC.)
> A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC; /spæk/), also known as a "blank check company", is a shell corporation listed on a stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring a private company, thus making it public without going through the traditional initial public offering process and the associated regulations thereof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...
Re: Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
#10Anyone has insights into how trustworthy is Yubico? Their firmware is opaque, not shared outside the company, so is their hardware (important for RNGs etc).
Very. They are a tiny Swedish company that pay for top talent, are quite active and hands-on in the netsec community. It's not a faceless corporation with a Chinese PO Box.
US government had a nice little swedish cryptography company there for a bit too...