Security Now - 16k MP3

This week, after catching up on the week's security and privacy news, Steve and Leo take a close look at "Ghostery," a highly recommended, multi-OS, multi-browser extension that reveals all of the tracking bugs and cookies websites are hosting to track us, and optionally allows them to be blocked.

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.

Steve shares something of a revelation about the true nature of passwords and why "password entropy" really doesn't matter as much as has long been believed. He explains, therefore, how it's possible for passwords to be both memorable AND impossible to crack at the same time.

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.

After catching up with the week's security and privacy news, we conclude our two-part series discussing the need for, and applications of, random and pseudo-random numbers. We discuss the ways in which a computer, which cannot produce random numbers, can be programmed to do an extremely good job.

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's security news and events took up so much time that we didn't have time to cover the entire topic of "Randomness" in security and cryptography. So we split the topic into two parts. This first week we open the topic and explain the background, problem and need. Week after next we'll plow into the solutions.

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.

After catching up with a number of extra-interesting security news of the week, Steve and Leo explore the recently raised suggestion that using a three word "pass-sentence" such as "I like tomatoes" would be MORE secure (and far more memorable) than "J4f6<2". Short sentences are certainly easier to remember... but more secure?

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.