[dmoy]

> Not sure if this is just a cheaply made Feitian Key though rebranded for Google Cloud, or if it is a new product in itself.

The article implies otherwise:

""" “It’s built with a secure element including firmware we built ourselves,” Google’s Rob Sadowski said. “It provides a ton of security with very little interaction and effort on the part of the user.” """

[yayana]

Feitian announced a few months back that all of their u2f products were using their normal javacard chips.. (Some of the low end older ones were either different chips or could only ship permantly "personalized".)

Bulk orders of any recent feitian u2f should be able to ship with firmware you built yourself (probably with their SDK and help.) Effectively, that might mean very little since they probably can't support much more in combination with a u2f applet, but it would allow a vague statement like in the article and explain an avoidance of clarifying whether they support other pki or otp which is what distinguishes the high end tokens people like to talk about.

[technologia]

Its not atypical for Google to do this, for instance Google Hangouts is actually a licensed software deal and not something in-house (albeit not the greatest example).

[rrdharan]

I'm not really sure what this is referring to - did you mean the Vidyo codec deal (which was subsequently dropped in favor of VP8)?

https://vsee.com/blog/google-hangouts-dropped-vidyo/

[technologia]

No, but I can see why you would think I meant that. I didn't cite my sources, probably why I got downvoted a bunch; Racking my brain to remember that company's name but it essentially looked like a whitelabel version of hangouts (minus the google-y/material-design feel of the app).

I'll shut up now till I figure out the company I was thinking of.

[gaadd33]

What's the source platform for Google Hangouts? I would be interested using them internally for our video chat needs, a link would be useful to see their pricing.