SOB: The Rosetta Stone of Passwords, Return to the 'Fappening'
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The best and brightest people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions. What can we learn from them?
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
No matter how secure or encrypted a system is, the human element is always vulnerable. What is the “language of passwords,” and how did it compromise hundreds of scandalous celebrity photos in 2014?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Speaking of Bitcoin on the Coin Desk Podcast Network is brought to you by nexo.io. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello there. I'm George Franklin, and I'm going to take a look at how even the best and brightest people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions. |
| 0:17.6 | And what we can learn from them, this is Dare to Be Stupid. This time I'm |
| 0:21.6 | Dare to be Stupid, is there a master key out there to hack any account? Did your MySpace |
| 0:26.6 | page pave the way to the biggest celebrity scandal of the decade? Mistakes were made, and it's |
| 0:30.6 | the Rosetta Stone of Passwords. I am, if nothing else, a man who learns from his mistakes. |
| 0:36.6 | Months ago, I promised to stop talking about baseball, |
| 0:39.7 | and recently I said I would focus on teaching statistics instead |
| 0:42.5 | by making an example of The Simpsons. |
| 0:44.9 | So, in 2010, the season 22 episode of The Simpsons' Money Bart premiered, |
| 0:49.3 | in which Lisa coaches a little league baseball team |
| 0:51.3 | using Moneyball style applied Sabre metrics. |
| 1:00.0 | Okay, I'm just joshing you. I am yanking your chain. I'm not going to get into baseball here. But I have to quickly bring up baseball, specifically the study of Sabre Metrics, and how it directly connects to the, um... |
| 1:07.0 | to the... uh... |
| 1:09.0 | to the 2014 mass leak of celebrity nude photos, better known as the Fappening. |
| 1:15.6 | Okay, but before I can dial it forward to 2014 in all of its salacious click-driving engagement keywords, |
| 1:22.6 | we have to dial it back to the real beginning of the story. |
| 1:25.6 | The year 196 BC. It is the later days of otherwise ancient Egypt, and what I can only assume is a hard-working scribe from the office typing pool |
| 1:34.3 | is carving out a decree dictated by his boss, King Ptolemy V. |
| 1:38.3 | This degree is meant to be put up in public and is printed in triplicate. |
| 1:42.3 | One copy printed in traditional old Egyptian hieroglyphs, |
| 1:45.0 | one repeat copy in the more common Egyptian demotic script, and one in the standard Greek of the time. |
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