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Good morning InterWebs!

Exciting news! James Dann from the ‘Up Again‘ breakfast show on RDU 98.5 FM invited me to create a new technology feature for the show. James is an old friend and I’ve been involved with RDU off and on for 15 years so I thought, why not! We decided to call the segment || Tech House || and since it’s me we’re gonna focus on security, privacy, and free, open, and libre software (FLOSS). For a bit of nostelgia we’ve borrowed the theme song from ‘Beyond 2000‘ as our intro music.

On episode one we focused on password management, the director of the CIA recently had his personal email account hacked… lolz.

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• News
  • Teen Hacked CIA Director’s Email
    • http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hacker-who-broke-into-cia-director-john-brennan-email-tells-how-he-did-it/
    • http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/hacker-releases-new-purported-personal-data-for-top-cia-dhs-officials/
• Feature – Password Management
  • Theory / Concepts
    • Use a different password for every service
    • Use strong passwords or even better passphrases
    • Bonus points – two factor authentication
  • Recommended solutions
    • Beginners
      • Bitwarden
        
      • 1Password
    • Geeks
      • KeePassX (GNU Linux | Mac | Other Devices and Platforms) / KeePass (Windows)
  • References
    • TLDR – Five Best Password Managers (2015) – Lifehacker.com
    • Further information – All the Best Password Managers Compared – Lifehacker.co.uk
    • Geek level – Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess

• 5 Minute IT Pro Tip #1
  • HTTPS Everywhere
    • https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

2020 update

If you'd like further explanation around the context for using HTTPS Everywhere check out the 2020 guide from Pixel Privacy on this tool as well as other tips and tricks for keeping yourself private online.

That’s where it’s at! See ya next time!

Yours in tech,
Dr Hitchcock.