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Mac Power Users

316: Locking Down Your Technology

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How To, Tech, Sparks, David, Set Up, Mac, Workflow, Ios, User, Help, Power, Stephen Hackett, Technology

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2016

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

David and Katie run down options for securing your tech and staying safe online. We cover securing your iOS devices and Macs as well as discuss best practices for passwords, email, web browsing and locking down your online profiles. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users

0:17.3

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside my pal David Sparks.

0:20.4

Hello David.

0:21.4

Hey Katie, how are you today?

0:23.0

I'm great.

0:24.0

You know, it's kind of a different world now that we live in and people are all scared about, you know,

0:29.7

encryption and who's got access to your stuff.

0:32.4

I'm really excited that people have a general

0:35.0

awareness now that bad things are out there and can happen. Yeah and and

0:39.8

sadly there's a lot of people making their living off doing really bad things.

0:44.0

So the rest of us need to be on alert.

0:46.0

So we thought we'd take an episode to talk about all the ways you can lock down your technology.

0:51.0

We're going to cover iOS and Mac, your home network,

0:54.7

you know, the whole enchilada, as they say. And you know, one thing I'd like you to take from

0:59.0

this show when you're done listening to it is not only walking down your own

1:01.9

stuff but helping out your family and friends around you because there's a whole lot of people not listening to the show that really should be listening to the show.

1:10.0

You know I was just going to say this because I bet a lot of our Mac Power users

1:13.5

listeners are already doing a lot of this but I bet you they're going to learn a

1:17.8

thing or two from the show and I hope you walk away from the show with at least a

1:20.9

couple of new ideas of things that you can implement.

1:23.4

But then when you're done implementing it on your own setup, then take it a step further and talk to your

1:27.6

spouse, talk to your kids, talk to your parents and your grandparents, and see what you can do to help

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