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Podcast for 20 July 2015

Started by MrBogosity, July 19, 2015, 06:00:07 PM

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July 19, 2015, 06:00:07 PM
[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2015-07-20.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:
26:26 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Energy Information Administration http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/study-wind-farms-even-more-expensive-and-pointless-than-you-thought/

34:50 - Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/27/revealed-tsas-closely-held-behavior-checklist-spot-terrorists/

This Week's Quote: "We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports." —Bruce Schneier
July 20, 2015, 10:12:59 AM #1
Well, I don't know if it was the most recent Adobe updates or changes to the site 1templates, but I can play the podcast from this page again.  Before, I was able to play it from the podcast page, but not the forum page.

Wind farms appear to not generate noise pollution as a mater of policy for the government of Ontario.  There's a big one north of Toronto, and many, MANY (as in THOUSANDS) of complaints have been filed by neighbors for excessive noise, all declared to be isolated instances of malcontents by the relevant Ministry.  When one of the complainers contact the private company that actually operates the wind farm, however, they came out and checked noise levels, went 'Oh shit!' when they were over the allowed noise limits, and first tried to remediate the noise, and when that failed bought out the complainants.

Noises outside of (normal, at least) human perception as noise do have noticeable effects on at least some people.  My ex claimed to be able to hear the noise produced by the flyback circuitry in CRT TVs and that it contributed to her migraines, and I've known other people who reported that having an operating TV set in the vicinity would cause them to get headaches.  (Yet another reason to be glad it's all LCDs now, and soon we can expect to start the switchover to the superior color reproduction of OLED TVs and monitors.)  I know from my cats (who have broader auditory range than humans) that a CRT TV produces a noise they don't like AT ALL.  Turning my old set on will make them wake up and run away if they're in the same room.
July 20, 2015, 10:26:15 AM #2
Quote from: evensgrey on July 20, 2015, 10:12:59 AM
Well, I don't know if it was the most recent Adobe updates or changes to the site 1templates, but I can play the podcast from this page again.  Before, I was able to play it from the podcast page, but not the forum page.

After it happened, I went through all the custom BBcode I had made and made sure everything that could played in HTML5 and only fell back to Flash if the user's browser didn't support it. So that might have fixed it for you.
July 20, 2015, 10:17:19 PM #3
When it comes to passwords, I've started memorizing patterns on the keyboard.
As far as security questions go I give answers that make them riddle rather than a straightforward answer, or some degree of misdirection
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July 21, 2015, 06:14:24 AM #4
Quote from: Dallas Wildman on July 20, 2015, 10:17:19 PM
When it comes to passwords, I've started memorizing patterns on the keyboard.

That's good ONLY if you randomly-generated the password and THEN memorized the pattern it makes. (I've done that before on keyboards; it's my usual method with keypads such as PINs.) But if you come up with the pattern first, it's bad--it's called "keyboard walking," and it's how (I'm perfectly serious) hackers cracked the password "qeadzcwrsfxv1331."

QuoteAs far as security questions go I give answers that make them riddle rather than a straightforward answer, or some degree of misdirection

I just randomly generate those with LastPass, too. Then I add it to the notes for that site.
July 22, 2015, 03:31:59 AM #5
Quote from: MrBogosity on July 21, 2015, 06:14:24 AM
That's good ONLY if you randomly-generated the password and THEN memorized the pattern it makes. (I've done that before on keyboards; it's my usual method with keypads such as PINs.) But if you come up with the pattern first, it's bad--it's called "keyboard walking," and it's how (I'm perfectly serious) hackers cracked the password "qeadzcwrsfxv1331."

All lower case and trailing numbers instead of mix of upper and lower case and numbers and special characters, and just one side of the keyboard.  I can easily see how such a password can be cracked.
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July 22, 2015, 07:40:39 AM #6
Quote from: Dallas Wildman on July 22, 2015, 03:31:59 AM
All lower case and trailing numbers instead of mix of upper and lower case and numbers and special characters, and just one side of the keyboard.  I can easily see how such a password can be cracked.

Nope, that's not it. If it were just that, it would still have taken them centuries to crack it. Look at the pattern it makes. It wouldn't have taken them much longer to crack "19QOalZ>20WPs;X?."

Also, the password is 16 characters long. Even with just lowercase letters and numerals, that's PLENTY for most purposes. Mixing case actually doesn't make passwords as strong as people think; you can make it MUCH stronger by making it just a few characters longer than by mixing case. A 16-character password, all lowercase with numbers, will take 40 times as long to crack as a 13-character password with mixed case (but otherwise equal), and will be easier to type to boot.

Remember: it's not the complexity of the needle, it's the size of the haystack. Length is FAR more important than complexity.
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