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The Clark Howard Podcast

9.25.18 USB security keys; fiduciary reneging; Products for elderly are booming market

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Google has a new USB security key and there are other companies selling these as well. They could save you from hackers; Merrill Lynch is scrapping its plan to be a fiduciary. Not cool; Products for aging baby boomers are, well, booming! Some of these products could be amazingly helpful for your aging parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Glad you're here with us on the Clark Howard Show where it's about your empowerment with

0:10.1

knowledge so you can save more and spend less and don't let anyone ever rip you off

0:16.7

as being at which coming up in a few minutes in today's Clark Rage's moment.

0:22.3

The sharks are already circling in the water, taking advantage of you with your retirement

0:28.8

money. Let me tell you about just one company that's decided it's open season on your wallet again

0:36.6

and coming up yet later. I want to tell you that I see a business opportunity in the marketplace.

0:45.2

I want to throw you away. People are always asking me, where's the opportunity? I got one for you.

0:52.2

I talk right now about something that I shared with you twice in recent years at CES, the Consumer

1:02.6

Electronic Show, from my reports there that I go each January to Las Vegas for the world's largest

1:11.8

trade show. There are certain trends that I will get wrong. I'll see something I think is absolutely

1:21.7

going to be a big hit. I'll see something I think is going to be a hit like right away and then

1:29.0

cricket, cricket, it eventually comes just a lot slower than I expected. One of those things

1:36.5

is coming alive now that I first thought was going to be part of our lives several years past

1:45.6

and that is little electronic gadgets that allow you to prevent thieves, identity thieves,

1:58.1

from getting at your accounts and getting at your money. There are now a number of what are known

2:05.1

is security keys appearing in the marketplace and these security keys are a vastly superior method of,

2:18.8

which is two factor authentication. Right now the most common method of verifying that you are who

2:26.4

you say you are is you sign into an account on your phone or on a computer or whatever

2:33.5

and then you'll be given an alert that you won't be given access to your account until you get a

2:43.2

text message with a one time use code and so it's texted to your cell phone number and you pop

2:50.9

that code in and then you have access to your account. Well something I shared with you recently is how

2:59.6

criminals have figured out how to defeat two factor authentication by getting insiders employed

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