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Compass, chronometer and sextant – they’re BACK! 60 Second Security

What's the easiest sort of password to remember? What if GPS goes wrong? What about Apple updates? "60 Sec Security" has all the answers...
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• Last week: Would you put your kids on Facebook?
• 2 weeks ago: I will not knit my own cryptography!

In this episode:

• [0’05”] Do you find passwords too darn hard?
• [0’27”] US Navy brings back the sextant
• [0’42”] Apple closes a raft of drive-by download holes

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Paul Ducklin is a passionate security proselytiser. (That's like an evangelist, but more so!) He lives and breathes computer security, and would be happy for you to do so, too.

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