Toopher funding gives location-based two factor authentication a boost

January 30, 2013 6:07 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Toopher, which "authenticates" your identity by looking at your phone's location, got $2 million in funding and admittance to an Austin tech incubator.

Toopher boosts security using your smartphone’s GPS

April 18, 2012 9:56 AM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Passwords are notoriously insecure. You can greatly increase security by adding two-factor authentication, but making people check their phones for a secret code is annoying.

Toopher offers a clever alternative: two-factor authentication that doesn’t require you to take your phone …