034: The pen is mightier than the password
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The UK government wants you to give your credit card details to porn sites, Ashley Madison offers compensation to the people whose lives it ruined, and an adult website wants you to pass its unorthodox and below-the-belt biometric identity check... gulp!
All this and Myspace, Google Glass, Fleabag, and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by technology journalist and broadcaster David McClelland.
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Special Guest: David McClelland.
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Links:
- BBC One - X-Ray, Summer Specials, Photography Special — Watch David McClelland on iPlayer if you're in the UK. There may also be ways of watching this outside the UK. We couldn't possibly comment...
- Vladimir Putin Cut From Two Upcoming Hollywood Movies — Hollywood Reporter
- It's not Yourspace, it's Myspace — Leigh-Anne Galloway shares her research on Myspace's diabolical security.
- Myspace fixes account security hole - but delete your account anyway
- The UK will block online porn from next year. Here's what we know — Wired
- Ashley Madison will pay $11.2 million to data breach victims — Engadget
- You can now use a dick pic as a password. Why, god? Why. — Mashable
- Nasty Bug Left Thousands of Internet of Things Devices Open to Hackers — Motherboard
- Millions of IoT devices at hacking risk due to flaw in open source software library — Bitdefender Box blog
- Meet the Thirteenth Doctor Who — YouTube.
- Fleabag — Sadly there is no way at all for anyone outside the UK to watch shows on BBC iPlayer. Definitely not. Nope. No way at all. Impossible.
- IRL Podcast: Online Life is Real Life — Mozilla's new podcast
- Google Glass is officially back with a clearer vision — Engadget
- Black Mirror: The Entire History of You — We didn't mention it on the podcast, but this episode of "Black Mirror" includes the new Doctor Who - Jodie Whittaker.
- This Startup Wants to Replace Your Office With 3D Holograms - Bloomberg — Article about Meta, which is testing augmented reality technology on its employees
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Graham. |
| 0:01.3 | Hi, hi. |
| 0:02.3 | Do you think we should have a warning on this episode because it does get a little risky in story number two? |
| 0:12.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:14.6 | Well, it wasn't really our fault. |
| 0:16.0 | It was our special guest on this episode. |
| 0:17.8 | Okay, so we don't need to have a warning. |
| 0:19.2 | We don't need to have a warning. |
| 0:20.2 | It was his fault. |
| 0:20.9 | It was his fault. He kind of lowered the tone. He lowered the tone. To such an extent that some people might not want to hear it, particularly young people, maybe. Yeah, but you do want to hear it. So listen to it. But don't say we didn't warn you. We didn't warn you. We decided not to warn them, right? |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:39.7 | Anyway, it wasn't us. |
| 0:40.8 | That's the important thing. |
| 0:42.7 | On with the show. |
| 0:46.2 | Smashing Security is supported by Recorded Future, the real-time threat intelligence company |
| 0:51.4 | whose patented machine learning technology continuously analyzes |
| 0:55.5 | technical, open, and dark web sources to give organization unmatched insight into emerging threats. |
| 1:02.3 | Sign up for the free daily threat intelligence update at recordedfuture.com slash intel. |
| 1:08.4 | That's recordedfuture.com slash intel. That's recorded future.com slash intel. |
| 1:16.1 | Smashing Security, episode 34. The pen is mightier than the password with Carol Terrio and |
| 1:23.2 | Graham Cluley. Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 34 of Smash Insecurity for the 20th of July 2017. Tremendous to be here, and I'm joined, as always, by my good body, Coral Terrio. Hello, Carol, how are you? Are you having trouble speaking? T-Mendis? What did I say? T-Mendous. I kind of like it. Yes, I am T-Mez. I'm T. Mendus. I'm Tremendous as well. And we are joined by a very special guest, technology writer and broadcaster David McLean. Hello, David. Welcome to the show. Hello, hello, Graham. And hello, Carol, as well. Lovely to kind of, um, not eMeat You, kind of podcast to meet you, I suppose. Yes. Well, it's great to have you on here as well. |
| 2:03.1 | Now, David, I know you from the fraculous podcast, but of course you do much more than that. For people who don't know or people who don't live in the UK, tell us about yourself. And why are you here? Yeah, why are you here? Why am I, because you asked me last week, and I promised that I would turn up. |
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