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Following up on last week's "SQRL - Secure QR Login" podcast, this week's Q&A focuses upon the many interesting questions my description of a new approach to secure website login sparked in the minds of the podcast's listeners. And, of course, we also catch up with the week's news.

After catching up with the week's minimal security news, Tom and I take the wraps off of "SQRL" (pronounced "squirrel"), Steve's recent brainstorm to propose a truly practical replacement for always-troublesome website login usernames and passwords.

After catching up with the week's news, and following the news that Apple's new iPhone Touch ID system was spoofed within days of its release, Tom and I take a much closer look at the technology and application of Apple's Touch ID system, examining the reports of its early demise.

Tom and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

After covering this month's Patch Tuesday events and catching up with the past week's security news, Leo & I examine the week's most troubling and controversial revelations: the NSA's reported ability to crack much of the Internet's encrypted traffic. We explain how different the apparent reality is from the headlines,

After catching up with a lot of interesting security news, Leo and I examine the operation and technology of the new Bitmessage secure and anonymous Internet messaging system.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

This week, Leo and I continue covering the consequences of the Snowden leaks and, with that in mind, we examine the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) system for securely encrypting eMail and attachments.

Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.

With last week's Las Vegas Black Hat 2013 and DEFCON conferences just completed, Leo and I examine the most significant and worrisome revelations to emerge from that annual convocation, and also discuss and dissect the week's top security news.