We are very secure and make sure to cover many angles to insure your data can never be compromised. Many often ask what exactly we do to make the data so secure. Unfortunately, one of the things that makes the site so secure is that we do not disclose the exact encryption practices.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
It's also a bit weird that it's apparently two unrelated products in one. Pinterest and LastPass: two great tastes that taste great together?
"insure": Provide insurance coverage. Arrange for compensation in the event of damage to or loss of (property), or injury to or the death of (someone), in exchange for...: "the car is insured for loss or damage"
"ensure": Make certain that (something) shall occur or be the case.
I think I have found an explanation in http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/17/food/fo-60599 "and forget the fact that "insure" was nearly always spelled "ensure" in the 18th century."
It is probably one of these things where Americans swung one way and Brits the other. Another example is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology where Americans use the original British spelling and the Brits use the original American spelling!
But insure and ensure mean different things - they can't be interchanged!
Not sure if it's something unique to my upbringing however.
Holy mackerel, you're right:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:newyorker.com+insure
At first I thought, "Well, but the New Yorker does have a few quirks" - but the analogous search for the NYT shows that they do it too.
I always assumed "insure" for "ensure" was a sign of illiteracy. What's that thing called in psychology where the brain edits out incongruent things and just doesn't see them? I must have been doing that with "insure" for years.
"https://mysocialcloud.com/aboutus In addition, our site utilizes advanced encryption to ensure your information is always secure"
"How secure is MySocialCloud.com? From day one, it has been our goal to provide the best security on the web. While we don't expose how we keep MySocialCloud secure (if we told you, it would be unsecured!), we do ensure that not even our employees are able to see any of your sensitive data."
One of their videos shows a bookmarket so I'm going to presume they're using that for somekind of encryption clientside with AES???
Mentor them and who knows, you may get to meet Sir. Richard someday and gain his interest in your own projects! (but dont make this the goal of reaching out to them)
That's not what "embrace and extend" means. To give a hint, it typically has a third part: "... and extinguish."
I don't think so. If you start a business and you neither have a clue about your core product - i.e. security - nor care about asking someone who does, you better fail soon and the world will be a better place. There are too many wannabes already, don't you think?
You don't just "start" on passwords/usernames - seriously it's not a game (but I suppose consumers ask for it if they trust a bunch of kids).
Look at all the password leaks over the last couple of years and you'll realise it's not a damn game - you really need to know what you're doing. Especially if that's your core value proposition.
Security is not a "move fast and break things" start-up.
It's a "don't screw up or you'll get sued into the ground" start-up.