August 24, 2022

TEH 169: Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.

1 hour 9 minutes

In This Episode: Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

0:00 LN: Another travel related thought exercise: you’re in another country, and you lose everything – phone, wallet, laptop, etc.. How do you prepare?

2:19 GR: Two Factor issues.

4:48 Connect with computers at home. Trust another person.

5:40 LN: Essential email accounts.

7:40 LN: Authy Two Factor.

10:57 GR: What if I can’t rejoin the internet world?

12:00 GR: It’s similar to getting connected when setting up a new computer.

20:00 LN: Backing up password vault.

24:50 GR: Services with no customer support

26:00 LN: Protonmail experience. And Fastmail.

29:00 LN: What “end to end” encryption means. Some people don’t really get why it matters.

In light of this article: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion (I’ve got an article in pipeline for early september)

35:15 Art and detail of encryption.

40:30 Government back door? Levels of intrusion.

45:00 It is a non-issue if end-to-end encryption is used.

49:00 Social ramifications are huge

52:00 LN: Headlines overstating things. For example: yet another Mac/Zoom vulnerability where the headlines are way scarier than they should be.

Most vulnerability reports these days are ‘gated’ by phishing, so it’s in our control. Or is that “bad” news?

56:00 GR: Or, gated by “physical access.”

1:00:40 LN: Ransomware

Ain’t it Cool

1:02:00 LN: (rerun) Internet radio (Radio Garden), esp with upcoming travel (I’ve been using TuneIn)

1:05:00 GR: Embassytown by China Miéville

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion