Design Details

278: Dice Gamble

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In this first episode of 2019, Brian explains online security to Marshall as though he is a five-year-old, covering everything from DNSs to VPNs. In Follow-up, we read a few listener tweets, and as always, we share a couple Cool Things, including a misused city simulator and a social network for movie buffs.

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Follow-up
  • Design Details - 1: "How Nerdy of an Answer Do You Want? (feat. Sam Soffes)" was released exactly four years before the day we recorded this episode (!)
  • Claudio Guglieri used Readymag for the blog posts we mentioned in 273: "Bespoke, Artisanal, Single-Batch Blog Post"
  • Listener Tweets:
    • Ravi Aujla hopes we'll keep talking about UX in games
    • Chrish Dunne alerted us to a hidden shortcut in Terminal
    • Federico Zanetello showed off his Home app inspired by our smart home episode
      • Explain Like I'm Five
      • The tweet that started it all
      • 1Password Watchtower helps you find passwords you need to change
      • Lastpass is a good password manager, too
      • Article: "Password Autofill in iOS 12 now works with 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass"
      • Wikipedia: Multi-factor authentication
      • Article: "The SIM Hijackers"
      • Podcast: Reply All - 97: "What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished?"
      • Google 2-Step Verification
      • Article: "Gmail for iOS now receives 2-Step Verification Prompts, new default over Google app"
      • Article: "Data of 143 million Americans exposed in hack of credit reporting agency Equifax"
      • Encrypt your Mac backups by going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > File Vault
      • 1.1.1.1 is a faster, more private DNS by Cloudflare
      • iVPN is the VPN service Brian uses
      • Encrypt.me comes as part of the eero Plus package
      • Webcam covers on Amazon (not an affiliate link)
      • To see all the apps that have access to your camera, go to Settings > Privacy > Camera for switches
      • Adblock blocks ads
      • Brave is a privacy-focused browser built on Chromium
      • Duck Duck Go is a privacy-focused search engine
      • Firefox Multi-Account Containers is an extension that walls off sites
      • Article: The Wired Guide to Digital Security
      • Article: "Introducing CYBER: A Hacking Podcast by Motherboard"
      • Podcast: Reply All - 97: "What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished?" (again)
        • One Cool Thing:
        • Marshall shared Pres, a YouTube creator who makes beautifully realistic cities in Cities: Skylines
          • Video: "Crazy Ira and the Douche"
          • Article: "How Cities: Skylines took a great big slice of SimCity"
          • Article: "Steam users have already declared the winner in the great coaster sim war"
          • Video Playlists: New Windsor and Calavera Beach
          • A few more great detailer channels: Silvarett, Fluxtrance, Strictoaster, two dollars twenty, and the Bob Ross of city sims, ImperialJedi
          • Brian shared Letterboxd, a social network for film lovers
            • Kevin Clark's tweet clued Brian in on the service
            • Watchlist by Keegan Jones lets you save movies to watch later
              • Stinger:
              • Video: "Tigger TTFN"
                • Design Details on the Web:
                • We are @designdetailsfm
                  • Brian is @brian_lovin
                  • Marshall is @marshallbock
                  • @Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are
                  • Join the conversation on Spectrum or leave us a review on iTunes

                    • BYEEEEEEE!

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