Deep Dive 1 — 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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Security Bits — 25 September 2022
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 — appleinsider.com/… 🇺🇸 The recent revelations of […]
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iCloud Passwords for Windows – 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 […]
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NC #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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Why Do I Need a Password Manager if I Have iCloud Keychain?
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 it’s good enough for them. I’ve heard this before, and I never sat down to really outline what a […]
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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
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Create 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #749 Nightscapades, Zoom Mistake, Nite Ize Waterproof Containers, iWork Password Security, Go64, 64-bit Beta of Clarify, Video Streaming Woes Resolved?
This week I’ll walk you through why my Chit Chat Across the Pond recording with Doug Ingram didn’t have the audio quality I had hoped for. I’ll tell you about some reliable waterproof containers for your water adventures. I’ll answer a Dumb Question about whether iWork document passwords are secure. I’ll give you a tool […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Security of Password-Protected iWork Documents
Gordon sent in a terrific Dumb Question for us a while ago and I’m finally going to answer him: Hi Allison – I have a question. You might say I have a dumb question. I wanted to know if password securing your documents is, well, secure. In my case I have a spreadsheet in Numbers […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #743 Wet iPhone Resurrection, iAccess Life & WheelMate, MyNetDiary, Anker Bluetooth Speaker, Macstock 2019 Retrospective, FIDO 2
Thanks to contributions by Ralston Barnard, Frank Petrie, Tom Merritt, Shane Jackson, and Bart, we have a huge show for you, even though Steve and I are lounging on a lake in Canada with our kids. I make a small contribution but it’s really everyone else who pulled the weight this week. mp3 download
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