215: ‘The “Press Real Hard” Era’ With Marco Arment
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 18 February 2018
⏱️ 234 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You see all this crap about how like Facebook is using people's two factor numbers to like |
| 0:04.8 | basically spam them into more engagement. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, it's awful. |
| 0:08.3 | Like why would you do that? |
| 0:09.3 | And you're literally punishing people. |
| 0:11.1 | You're punishing people for doing the right thing. |
| 0:15.8 | If you think that the right thing is setting up two factor, which I actually think is sort |
| 0:19.8 | of debatable if this if one of the factors is your cell phone. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time. |
| 0:27.8 | It was first started being used like what almost 10 years ago. |
| 0:31.8 | But I think that's I think as we've seen like security wise, that's actually not that great, |
| 0:37.7 | not as great as we think it is. |
| 0:40.0 | No, you know, I'm going to butcher his name, MacJase Siklauski, the pinboard guy. |
| 0:48.0 | So he was in town over the summer, I think, and we met up and he sort of he sort of |
| 0:54.2 | like thrown himself in head over heels into the world of like best practices for personal |
| 1:00.5 | security. |
| 1:01.5 | And he's doing it. |
| 1:02.5 | He's an activist for a bunch of democratic candidates for Congress for this coming year. |
| 1:09.7 | Oh, yeah, the great slate. |
| 1:11.4 | I do. |
| 1:12.4 | I do. |
| 1:13.4 | Great slate. |
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