Displaying 3 items of Ask Noah Show with the tag "covid".
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Episode 197: Proper Password Security
September 8th, 2020 | 56 mins 21 secs
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Most people aren't choosing password that are secure enough. Professional attackers are able to crack up to 90% of passwords chosen by most people. The tools both for breaking passwords and saving them are open source. Thunderbird begins rolling version 78 and Alphabet Inc has a new end to end web platform for tracking and dealing with COVID in the workplace.
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Episode 192: Face Recognition Nightmare
July 28th, 2020 | 56 mins 20 secs
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Masks are being debated around the US and around the world but what do they do for privacy? China has facial recognition software that works even with face masks but NIST has shown that's not always the case! F5 has a major vulnerability that is allows someone with network access to the configuration utility, through the BIG-IP management port and/or self IPs, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, disable services, and/or execute arbitrary Java code.
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Episode 191: Privacy Shield Invalidated
July 21st, 2020 | 56 mins 21 secs
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The European Court of Justice invalidates Privacy Shield. The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law. Pine phone has a convergence package, and the Linux Foundation now has an open source contract tracing app.