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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Get Gud at Passwords & Password Management

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about security and how to get good at passwords. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 7:35 - Setting passwords Absolutely 100% must be unique for EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE 9:38 - Generated passwords Make a sentence: lovetoEatPizza Decide on casing Make your own algorithm: 3rd letter replaced by 4th letter of domain number on end is double the number of chars in the domain 13:52 - Use a password Manager Have the password manager generate the password for you Get it on your phone You must go 100% all in 1password Dashlane Bitwarden - open source version of Dashlane LastPass - awful 17:45 - Password manager tips Turn off your browser password manager - this is a crutch and causes them to become out of sync and this is why I see people annoyed by them For the love of god, make you master password something you can remember You can add family members to your plan that will approve it 1password’s Watchtower feature 20:50 - Biometrics Face ID, Touch ID Blood 21:37 - 2FA codes Authy Google Authenticator Authenticator + 1Password for 2FA codes Backup codes You can also backup the QR code 29:55 - Text message codes Don’t My sister got sim jacked, PayPal drained, phone number was gone for 7 days Lock transfer - ask your phone provider - mine has voice recognition Links Have I been pwned? Shop Talk Show: One on One with a Hacker Mailchimp Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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Monday, Monday, Monday,

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Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

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get workflows,

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break dancing, soft skills, web development,

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the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

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Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax in this very secure episode of Syntax.

0:32.0

We're going to be talking about password management how to lock those

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passwords up because you don't want to make sure anything that you have gets stolen

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used or accessed without your knowledge.

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And this is vitally important for every service or anything that you do online.

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It's extremely important. My name is Scott Tolinsky and with me as always is Wes Boss.

0:59.5

Hey everybody, I'm actually really excited for this episode because this is a question that I get from my friends and family as well as

1:07.0

Web developers alike so I'm hoping that this show can be a show that you send to literally anybody.

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You don't have to be a web developer to listen to this one.

1:15.8

It's just gonna be like, how do you get good at passwords?

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Because I think for us web developers,

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one of the biggest pain points is our friends and family who have

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sloppy password management hygiene. Yeah totally and speaking of hygiene you're

1:31.0

going to make sure your application has proper hygiene from bugs and we don't

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