Weekly Update 278

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I recorded this a week after Charlotte appeared with me, fresh out of isolation with a negative COVID test. However… 9 year old Elle had tested positive on Monday (albeit entirely symptomatic, so no idea how long she’d been positive) but hey, hopefully she’d be clear

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Weekly Update 277

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Well that all changed very quickly. One week ago, I was like “I’m going to do this video from somewhere really epic next week”. A few hours after that video, the host of the drinks we’d gone to over the road the day before

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Weekly Update 276

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2021 Dumpster fire? Harsh, but fair and I shall keep this 3D-printed reminder handy and hope I don’t end up needing to print a 2022 version! So many times throughout this week’s video I came back to that theme… But hey, there was some positive stuff

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Weekly Update 275

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I’d say this is probably the most epic scene I’ve ever done one of these videos from and equally, the main topic of the day around Pwned Passwords and the work done with the FBI and NCA is the most epic thing I’ve done

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Open Source Pwned Passwords with FBI Feed and 225M New NCA Passwords is Now Live!

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In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned’s (HIBP’s) Pwned Password API. 99.7% of the time, that check went no further than one of hundreds of Cloudflare edge nodes spread

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Weekly Update 274

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As I start out by saying this week’s video, it’s very summer here and not a day goes by without multiple pool visits. Next week’s video is going to be from somewhere epically amazing out of this world that I’ve wanted to

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When is a Scrape a Breach?

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A decade and a bit ago during my tenure at Pfizer, a colleague’s laptop containing information about customers, healthcare providers and other vendors was stolen from their car. The machine had full disk encryption and it’s not known whether the thief was ever actually able to

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A Password Manager Isn’t Just for Christmas, It’s for Life (So Here’s 50% Off!)

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I was having a coffee with a good mate the other day. He’s not a techie (he runs a pizza restaurant), but somehow, we ended up talking about passwords. Because he’s a normal person, he has the same 1 or 2 or 3 he uses everywhere

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Weekly Update 272

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Check out that lighting! The Elgato Key Lights have made a massive difference and they’re easily controlled via their Stream Deck or the Home Assistant integration. I’m just super, super happy with these and after posting this video, I’ve fixed them directly to the

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