Feb 15, 2012
AlterEgo News: Safe sender discount, and Ruby gem for developers
Two quick announcements about AlterEgo, our free two-factor security app that protects your MailChimp account even if your password’s been stolen:
- We recently announced a 2% discount for any MailChimp user that activates AlterEgo. Think of this as sort of a “good driver discount” you’d get from your insurance company. We’d like to reward people for being good, security-conscious netizens, because we benefit from it too. Details about the discount are posted here.
- Brian Getting of Terra-Firma Design has created a Ruby Gem for AlterEgo. For those who don’t know, AlterEgo has an API that allows developers to add 2-factor security to their own web apps. Thanks again, Brian! (Terra-Firma also built this Shopify integration for MailChimp users)
If 2-factor authentication’s not for you, here are some other security features built in to MailChimp that you should activate.
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steveprimecloud
MChimp>AlterEgo News: Safe sender discount, and Ruby gem for developers http://t.co/GFTuk6Gm
02.15.2012
jefs
RT @MailChimp: AlterEgo, our 2-factor authentication app, now available as a Ruby Gem. PLUS safe sender discount http://t.co/s8PpP9UG
02.15.2012
andykoch
is it possible to use this in a dev mode? as in, on my MBP on localhost
or is it expected that one develops this on a production server?
09.05.2012
John
Hi Andy, I checked with one of our developers and also referenced the API docs found here: https://alteregoapp.com/apidocs/v1.0/ and I think the key portion can be found in this sentence: “Your users can generate authentication keys for your application by visiting the authentication URL for your application.” So, while you could set everything up in localhost you would still need that authentication URL to be resolvable or you wouldn’t be able to generate authentication keys for the purposes of testing.
09.12.2012