MGG 299: Geeks Dig Deep and Get The Answers

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2010

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

John and Dave are back with a great show today filled with some fantastic answers. First a tip that (here’s the free giveaway) indicates that WPA does protect you from Firesheep’s antics, then it’s on to fixing pesky iTunes firewall dialogs, killing processes, preference fixing and more. Subscribe today, support your two favorite geeks, and enjoy!

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0:00.0	The Mac Geek Cap Cap Number Two Nineer for Thursday, November 18th, yeah. Thanks folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Matt Geekap a premium show for all of our
0:32.0	premium subscribers. Thank you very, very kindly. This is our second
0:37.8	premium show of November. There might be a third, I don't know, but I, but we'll let you know and you'll know of course I'm
0:45.8	Dave Hamilton here from Durham New Hampshire and on the other end of course
0:50.0	John I Braun here in Fairfield, Connecticut.
0:53.0	I think we're alone now, John.
0:55.0	Pete's flying today.
0:56.0	So, uh...
0:57.0	He's always flying.
0:58.0	I know.
1:00.0	No, he's not.
1:01.0	No, no, he's not, that's not. No, he's not.
1:03.2	That's right.
1:04.8	Yeah, so we've got a bunch of stuff to go through.
1:08.1	Let's start with this thing that has totally monopolized our pre-show and we'll just dive right in.
1:14.3	Hello John, Dave, Pete.
1:17.8	This is Tom from Detroit.
1:20.7	I'm just calling about the Fire Sheep thing that you mentioned in your last premium episode.
1:30.0	And it's about WPA. WPA actually does protect you from Fire Sheep.
1:35.0	It, when WPA negotiates a key when you log into the router and then that key is used to unencrypt your
1:47.0	or encrypt your conversation with the router so it can't be stolen the same way.
1:55.0	Right, okay, and I'm sure there's more we're going to talk about here.
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