Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Consequences arrive for past failure: πΊπΈ AT&T pays $13 million FCC settlement over 2023 data breach β www.bleepingcomputer.com/β¦ πͺπΊ Meta fined β¬91M by the Irish Data Protection Commissioners for storing over 600 million passwords […]
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Tiny Tip β Password Sharing with Apple β by Physics Nerd Graeme
In our Slack community (podfeet.com/slack), before WWDC there was a discussion about password management with Apple Keychain, and Physics Nerd Graeme jumped into the discussion. He had a tiny tip on how to share passwords with family members. Keep in mind that this discussion occurred right before WWDC when Apple announced that they’re coming out […]
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Iβve written an email to send to my friends and family trying to give them a heads-up about passkeys. My goal is to tell them not to be afraid of the concept because it really does sound too good to be true. Iβm not going to explain to them the details of how passkeys work, […]
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Deep Dive 1 β Rethinking the Last Pass Breach (It’s Worse 🙁) Two weeks ago the latest details on the Last Pass breach were much fresher, and since then two things have happened: More facts have come to my attention More well-reasoned opinions have been expressed In terms of new information we have the following: […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 Google have gotten SEC approval to pilot their controversial political ad spam by-pass feature with a limited number of campaigns in this year’s US mid-term elections β appleinsider.com/β¦ 🇺🇸 The recent revelations of […]
Continue readingMore TagiCloud Passwords for Windows β by Jill from the Northwoods
iCloud Passwords for Windows As you may know, I use Windows. I like Windows. There are always interesting conundrums involved when saving some of your data into Apple applications and other pieces of your data that are not in Apple. For example, I have this very nice password list of all the things I use […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #847 – 3 iPad Stands, Princess Medallion, Home Assistant, AirPlay 2 with Sonos, Random Passwords in Your Head
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, August 1, 2021, and this is show number 847. This week Steve and I had a lovely week-long vacation with our daughter Lindsay, her husband Nolan, and our […]
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ICloud Keychain Offers to Save Password Recently in one of our community channels we were chatting about the announcement that 1Password is now available for Linux, and someone said that they use iCloud Keychain and that itβs good enough for them. Iβve heard this before, and I never sat down to really outline what a […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #782 xkpasswd.net Tutorial, Dumb Question – Mystery Keystroke Adventure, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, May 3, 2020, and this is show number 782. mp3 download
Continue readingMore TagCreate Long, Strong, Memorable and Typeable Passwords with xkpasswd.net
If you already know what xkpasswd is, and you want to jump right to the tutorial, click here. What is xkpasswd? Back in 2011, Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastically nerdy and hilarious comic strip XKCD wrote a comic he calls Password Strength. In the illustration he explains how by forcing humans to create […]
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