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Favoriting January 1, 2018: Best practices for tech in 2018 - with Mark & station manager Ken

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This week, Mark and station manager Ken Freedman talk about best practices in tech for 2018. Speaking of getting prepared, here's a comic to start off 2018.

As for the above photo of Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Olson wrote this on June 21, 2016:

• Camera covered with tape
• Mic jack covered with tape
• Email client is Thunderbird

Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg for showing us good security tips to guard against surveillance capitalism!

From last week's special holiday episode:

Here's the list of games I recommended (re listener Lawrence's request).
Sony PS4: Rocket League, Overwatch, Nier:Automata
Nintendo Switch: Super Mario Odyssey, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
XBox One: Cuphead
Pretty much any platform: Spelunky, Minecraft, Roblox

Also, during last week's episode I read the AI-inspired fake Harry Potter chapter by Botnik.org, but here's a better-sounding reading (thanks to Webhamster Henry).

My tech reading in 2017:

I got through 12 tech-related books in my reading in 2017, to help prep for Techtonic (and two Skeptech events) - including Uproot, an excellent book by next week's guest (and former WFMU DJ) Jace Clayton, aka dj /rupture. Shown below, in no particular order:



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Listener comments!

Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Happy New Year, Mark and all!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
listener james from westwood:

My Twitter feed, and the two baristas/bakers at the donut/coffee place I visited this morning, were all abuzz w/ Black Mirror Season 4, by way of entertainment-oriented technofear (or technofear-oriented entertainment).
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
-Ken:

Hi everybody
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
-Ken:

@listenerjames, I'm halfway through the new season of Black Mirror.
Avatar 6:06pm
geezerette:

HNY, Mark !
L James!
Ken !
  6:07pm
JakeGould:

I tried playing “Animal Crossing: Pocket Campsite” for a day or two. Some good aspects and cute world, but the underlying message is you—as the player—need to get stressed out running errands for animals who won’t be your friends unless you do things for them. Ugh!!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Enhance!"
Avatar 6:07pm
northguineahills:

Howdeee-OOOs techtonicoreinos!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Fuzzy:

Zuck doesn't do Windows either, apparently.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
listener james from westwood:

@Ken: Have only seen one ep, Fifteen Million Merits, from the 1st season. Def. want to see more but boy, that one snagged in my flesh. (First learned of it when Scott played the version of the Irma Thomas tune in the episode.) Always impressed when a piece of media can affect me like that for so long.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
-Ken:

That gorgeous Irma Thomas tune from Fifteen Million Merits plays a big role in Episode 3 of the new season (4).
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

I like pictures of bookshelves and piles!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Techtroids. Remember one of the early shows where I mentioned my Nest thermostat? I had no heat this morning and when the tech from my heating oil company arrived this afternoon, he quickly determined that the thermostat was faulty. The Failure of Technology.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
-Ken:

Oh man, @KenfromHP - avoid using smart home devices!
  6:15pm
JakeGould:

I don’t understand “smart” home devices like thermostats. What actual benefit does someone get other than ability to remotely control stuff like that?

Solutions require problems, and all of these “smart” devices are solutions to non-existent problems.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
listener james from westwood:

Last thing I need in my environment is a bunch of different nanny devices chattering at one another about what they think reality is in my house! And yet the definition of "nanny device" is growing broader each year.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
Phil with the phone:

Happy new year all! Phone # is 201-209-9368
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
Phil with the phone:

Black Mirror spoilers will be hung up on immediately
  6:17pm
JakeGould:

“Phil with the phone” is the best handle.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
Phil with the phone:

@JakeGould Thanks! *finger guns*
Avatar 6:21pm
steve:

monkey
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Fuzzy:

4dm1n! has a good mix of upper, lower number and special characters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Mark Hurst:

To throw someone off, choose "baseball" instead of "football" (kidding, don't use sports at all!)
Avatar 6:23pm
herb.nyc:

Hi all, happy Newark! Can tech help us w medical uses? I read of an app that lets you aim yr camera at yr eyeball and a dr, perhaps 1000s of miles away, can examine you. Or nanorobots that get injected into you, and it can do things. Good things, I hope. (Or sexy things)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Phil with the phone:

relevant xkcd: www.xkcd.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Fuzzy:

A modern password cracker would crack that xkcd password in seconds.
Avatar 6:24pm
northguineahills:

I use words from different languages together w/ the letters interspersed w/ random characters and cases interspersed.
Avatar 6:25pm
northguineahills:

(I said too much)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
dale:

Damned If You Do Damned If You Don't - 23
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Fuzzy:

Mnemonicize a passage from a favorite poem or book, use that as your master passphrase in Lastpass.
Avatar 6:26pm
Fox:

I use full names of people whose parents were hippies.
"Soliel Moon Frye"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
dale:

speaking of fmu transmitter sites...mt hope still sounds like ABSOLUTE SHIT. i'm not complaining ken, just saying.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Ike:

I liked Colbert's suggestion from a couple of years ago for a master passphrase: 1000fishbutts. Of course since he said it on broadcast TV, probably a lot of people use it, so that's out. Never mind.
  6:28pm
ALF of Hip Hop Slam:

Hey there Ken! Happy New Year! I love ALL the tips you are telling the listeners. Good stuff!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
-Ken:

@dale - 90.1 audio is down due to cold - we're on audio backup.
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herb.nyc:

Nice pw ideas, ken. I like "frank burns eats worms", and I'll change to "ken Freedman eats worms". Oh, plz delete.
  6:29pm
JakeGould:

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (HAHAHAH! Wilco hipsters get hacked)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
dale:

otay - thanks. i knew you wouldn't abandon us.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
Webhamster Henry:

Also, since you need hundreds of passwords, it's best that they differ for each site, so a password manager is pretty useful there.
Avatar 6:31pm
northguineahills:

I keep all of my passwords in my head. I use a rotating series of permutations based on the service.
  6:32pm
yippie:

damn ken you ate a whole city
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
dale:

someone who knows klingon probably has good passwords.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
Fuzzy:

Lastpass password databases are encrypted/decrypted locally on the client computer with the passphrase (so make sure you use a good passphrase.)
  6:32pm
Obamula420:

great passwword tip, get yourself a copy of Keepass or LastPass
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry:

But what's really bad is there are no standards for password content: some sites demand that your password conform to their idea of password diversity, others are loose, and then there are many which limit the number of characters you can use, which is in fact the best way to make a secure password.
  6:33pm
JakeGould:

Base all of your passwords on the DaVinci code.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Ideally you would use pass phrases (really long passwords with spaces in them), and/or two factor authentication.
  6:34pm
herb.nyc:

About 1986 we bought $35,000 large NBI word processing system (used 12" floppies). I was sorta the admin guy and I started deleting old accts. One was by user Mr Sun. On my first guess I got his pw, sun.
  6:34pm
JakeGould:

Anyone remember the “I Love You” email/virus?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Fuzzy:

Yes, 2FA should be more widely known and used.
  6:35pm
JakeGould:

“Obama is Sending Working Moms Back to School and Gifting Them Free Bath Bombs! Click Here for More Info!”
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Phil with the phone:

@Dale now changing my password to "Qo'noS_Bat'leth"

Also we're still taking calls at 201-209-9368!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

Then there are those guys from "Microsoft" that tell you your computer has a virus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
dale:

i'll bet there are passwords using 'pon far' out there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Fuzzy:

www.wfmu.org "Not Secure"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
dale:

'freedman security solutions'
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

They cracked the Nigerian prince scam.
  6:38pm
JakeGould:

Anyone lose some Bitcoin? Email your social security number and mother’s maiden name to claim it!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Webhamster Henry:

Mail clients should absolutely expose all the links that appear in message content.
  6:39pm
JakeGould:

@KenFromHydeark: Nope, they caught one “Nigerian Prince” scammer… And he was an old white guy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Fuzzy:

Elliot Alderson uses Proton Mail -- 'nuff said.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have my own domain, with a catchall email address, so I give everyone a special email address for me so that I know I gave it to them. Any email to my "real" email address is treated highly suspiciously.
Avatar 6:41pm
Andrew S:

I use protonmail. It is free and seems secure enough. You get about message a day from them but I can live with that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
dale:

there was an episode of medium that had a nigerian prince who was actually a nigerian prince seeking to dispense money.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
Fuzzy:

Protonmail and Signal would be great if I could convince my friends and family to use them too.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

iOS:
techcrunch.com...
Avatar 6:44pm
northguineahills:

I go hours w/o looking at my phone, so my friends and family don't fret if I don't respond.
  6:44pm
JakeGould:

@-Ken: iOS has that exactly functionality under “Do Not Disturb” on iOS 11.2. It’s called “Do Not Disturb While Driving ” under settings.
Avatar 6:45pm
Andrew S:

They recently arrested a nigerian prince, he was an elderly man from Louisiana, wasnt Nigerian or a prince shattered my illusions
Avatar 6:45pm
northguineahills:

Wait, weren't we promised Ken in a Santa suit???
  6:46pm
JakeGould:

Straight from Apple: “With iOS 11, your iPhone can sense when you might be driving and prevent notifications.” support.apple.com...
  6:46pm
sufferwords:

signal works great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
dale:

i have a dumb phone, but i'm sure my computer is like an old whore at a sailor's barbecue when it comes to being impenetrable.
Avatar 6:51pm
Fox:

I wouldn't be able to get anywhere if I didn't use the GPS on my phone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
dale:

i got an email from my phone/web company that sent me a twelve page user terms and agreement document - it actually had verbiage that said i agreed to not look at anything offensive or pornographic. that's why i HAVE the web!!!!
Avatar 6:53pm
Andrew S:

My computer is a secure as I know how to make it, so probably not that secure but more than most. Passwords are a problem though, I use the same one pretty much everywhere which is just dumb but I dont know of a password manager i trust and remembering any more than 3 passwords and id forget them forsure
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

Of course the problem in old days was to unfold the map in front of your face while driving.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
listener james from westwood:

Oh hell yes, that dashcam genre is one of my chief insomnia cures. Good to know this exists!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

It sounds like the 21st century version of "Mondo Cane".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
dale:

in russia everyone loves to play bumper cars with you and try and extort money - i think that's the reason for the dash cams.
  6:56pm
medson:

Road Trip
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
dale:

- music by klahm and pussy riot.
Avatar 6:56pm
northguineahills:

what dale said...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Karen in Sleepy Hollow:

Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers will have Road Movie so you can come here and have vodka while watching it.
  6:56pm
queems:

oh god that fucking book
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Ike:

Supposedly dashcams are popular in Russia for legal reasons. If a guy in a rolling office chair rolls out in front of you on the freeway from out of the back of a moving truck and you want to sue him, or if you get sued by him, you gotta have some video!
  6:57pm
queems:

scared me so much
  6:57pm
JakeGould:

What book?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Phil with the phone:

@dale IIRC it's illegal to NOT have a dash cam in Russia. For insurance and what not.

also we have time for one more call at 201-209-9368!
  6:58pm
JakeGould:

Ahhh… “The Circle.”
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Mark & Ken!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
listener james from westwood:

Thanks, Ken and Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Phil with the phone:

Just looked it up, it's not illegal to not have a dash cam in Russia. Apparently there's just a lot of insurance fraud. See you all next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
dale:

2018 will be worse - trump is 'emboldened' by his tax plan passing. we're fucked.
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