Ep. 431: "Mr. Mustache"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John had to agree to terms.
(Recorded on Monday, July 12, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | The password is... |
| 0:02.0 | Is it one? |
| 0:09.9 | What was it? |
| 0:12.3 | Hello? |
| 0:13.3 | No, please continue. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, no, I was about to... |
| 0:18.3 | My mom was... |
| 0:19.4 | I was talking to her about my latest password. |
| 0:23.1 | Oh. Oh. Because as you know, that's very... That's a big topic, big exciting topic. |
| 0:27.7 | As long as I've known you, you've been very concerned about cyber. You know, I'm super concerned |
| 0:32.8 | about cyber. I'm really concerned about OPSEC. Oh, God. I'm concerned about retconning. Thank you. And so I was about to, |
| 0:42.5 | so I was like, you know, I was trying to reset my password. And I went through the whole rig and I called |
| 0:48.5 | them on the phone because their thing never, you know, their online thing. I'm sorry, John, this is not a |
| 0:52.7 | local password. This is, this is in the clode. |
| 0:54.8 | No, this is a clued one. |
| 0:56.2 | And it's an important one. |
| 0:57.3 | And because of security and because of Opsack and because of redconning, this particular institution likes to cancel your password really prompted by nothing. |
| 1:10.8 | The wind blows, a butterfly in China flaps its wings. |
| 1:13.8 | And this particular institution says, |
| 1:15.8 | you need to change your password. |
| 1:17.4 | They don't want you to ever use a password |
| 1:19.6 | that you ever used before, including 19 years ago. |
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