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"text": "[MUSIC PLAYING]",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: This is CS50's\nintroduction to cybersecurity.",
"start": 18.21,
"duration": 3.18
},
{
"text": "My name is David Malan.",
"start": 21.39,
"duration": 1.08
},
{
"text": "And this week, let's focus\non securing accounts.",
"start": 22.47,
"duration": 2.67
},
{
"text": "You and I have so many\naccounts nowadays,",
"start": 25.14,
"duration": 2.04
},
{
"text": "be it for websites or apps or the like.",
"start": 27.18,
"duration": 2.25
},
{
"text": "And we'll focus today on\nexactly what the threats are",
"start": 29.43,
"duration": 2.7
},
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"text": "to all of those accounts but more\nimportantly, what some of the defenses",
"start": 32.13,
"duration": 3.21
},
{
"text": "are so that you can keep\nthose accounts secure.",
"start": 35.34,
"duration": 2.25
},
{
"text": "But let's first consider what we mean\nby security in the physical world,",
"start": 37.59,
"duration": 3.22
},
{
"text": "for instance.",
"start": 40.81,
"duration": 0.66
},
{
"text": "Whether you live in a home, an\napartment, a dormitory or the like,",
"start": 41.47,
"duration": 3.29
},
{
"text": "odds are you have a key that\nlets you into that building.",
"start": 44.76,
"duration": 3.18
},
{
"text": "Now, that key, of course, lets\nyou in through that locked door,",
"start": 47.94,
"duration": 3.48
},
{
"text": "and then you have access\nto the entire habitat.",
"start": 51.42,
"duration": 3.51
},
{
"text": "But the catch is that if someone\nelse gets that key, of course,",
"start": 54.93,
"duration": 3.0
},
{
"text": "they, too, can let themselves into\nthat system or into that same building.",
"start": 57.93,
"duration": 5.077
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{
"text": "So let's consider now in the\ndigital world, though, what",
"start": 63.007,
"duration": 2.333
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{
"text": "some of the building\nblocks are of security so",
"start": 65.34,
"duration": 2.508
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{
"text": "that we can focus exactly what those\nthreats and what those defenses are.",
"start": 67.848,
"duration": 3.042
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{
"text": "So first, allow me to\npropose that we think",
"start": 70.89,
"duration": 2.34
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"text": "about the security of our accounts\nin terms of authentication.",
"start": 73.23,
"duration": 3.24
},
{
"text": "So authentication\nrefers to this process,",
"start": 76.47,
"duration": 2.8
},
{
"text": "digitally, of proving who you are,\nthat I, for instance, am David.",
"start": 79.27,
"duration": 4.89
},
{
"text": "But that alone isn't\nnecessarily enough to keep",
"start": 84.16,
"duration": 2.94
},
{
"text": "a system secure because just because\nI'm David doesn't necessarily mean",
"start": 87.1,
"duration": 3.66
},
{
"text": "I should have access\nto your entire home.",
"start": 90.76,
"duration": 2.61
},
{
"text": "Perhaps I should not have access at all.",
"start": 93.37,
"duration": 2.038
},
{
"text": "Perhaps I should just have\naccess to the entryway",
"start": 95.408,
"duration": 2.042
},
{
"text": "or some narrower form of access.",
"start": 97.45,
"duration": 2.62
},
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"text": "And so there's this\nrelated topic when it",
"start": 100.07,
"duration": 1.76
},
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"text": "comes to the security of locations\nor systems known as authorization.",
"start": 101.83,
"duration": 4.29
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{
"text": "So authorization speaks\nto whether or not",
"start": 106.12,
"duration": 3.18
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"text": "you should have access to something,\nonce you have proven that you are,",
"start": 109.3,
"duration": 4.96
},
{
"text": "that I am David and that I should,\nin fact, have access to the door",
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"duration": 3.8
},
{
"text": "that I just walked through.",
"start": 118.06,
"duration": 1.47
},
{
"text": "Now, when it comes to our\naccounts in the digital world,",
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"duration": 3.81
},
{
"text": "we, of course, don't use physical\nkeys, but very frequently nowadays we",
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"duration": 3.63
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"text": "use usernames, which, of\ncourse, can be public.",
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"duration": 2.37
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{
"text": "It might be a username like David.",
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"duration": 2.22
},
{
"text": "It might be a username like Malan.",
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"duration": 1.53
},
{
"text": "Or it might be more commonly, even an\nentire email address that presumably",
"start": 133.09,
"duration": 4.59
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"text": "uniquely identifies you in the world.",
"start": 137.68,
"duration": 2.23
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{
"text": "But even though that's public, the thing\nthat you and I ideally keep private",
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"duration": 4.01
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"text": "is, of course, our password.",
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"duration": 1.53
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"text": "And nowadays, you and I\nmust have dozens, maybe even",
"start": 145.45,
"duration": 3.27
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"text": "hundreds of passwords that\nare hopefully distinct",
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"duration": 3.81
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"text": "and not reused across all\nof those different websites,",
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"duration": 2.25
},
{
"text": "but more on that in a moment.",
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"duration": 1.3
},
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"text": "And so it's really this\npassword that ultimately",
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"duration": 2.75
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"text": "allows you to authenticate\nyourself, demonstrate",
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"duration": 3.09
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"text": "who you are because presumably I am\nthe only one in the world that knows,",
"start": 161.92,
"duration": 4.21
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"text": "not only my username or email\naddress, which all of us can know,",
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"duration": 3.338
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"text": "but presumably I'm the only\none in the world that knows",
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"duration": 2.292
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"text": "my username and this here password.",
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"duration": 2.91
},
{
"text": "And so the presumption is if\nI type in both of those values",
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"duration": 2.73
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"text": "to some app or some website that I must,\nin fact, be David Malan, in that case.",
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"duration": 5.4
},
{
"text": "Of course, it's not good\nenough to just have a password.",
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"duration": 3.78
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{
"text": "You need to have a good password.",
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"duration": 1.447
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{
"text": "Now, what do we mean by good password?",
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"duration": 1.583
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"text": "Well, ideally, this password is\nnot going to be in a dictionary,",
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"duration": 3.24
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"text": "like, literally a\ndictionary of English words",
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"duration": 2.46
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"text": "or whatever your human\nlanguage might be.",
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"duration": 2.14
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{
"text": "Why?",
"start": 197.45,
"duration": 0.5
},
{
"text": "Well, there's this threat\nknown as a dictionary attack.",
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"duration": 2.86
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{
"text": "And by this I mean an\nadversary, a hacker that",
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"duration": 2.78
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{
"text": "wants to get into your\naccount, they could just",
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"duration": 2.25
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"text": "start typing randomly to try to\nfigure out what your password is.",
"start": 205.84,
"duration": 2.73
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{
"text": "But they're a little smarter.",
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"duration": 1.29
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"text": "They'll actually use\na dictionary attack.",
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"duration": 2.31
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"text": "That is they'll open a\nphysical book of words,",
"start": 212.17,
"duration": 2.55
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"text": "or more likely they'll open a\nfile on their computer containing",
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"duration": 3.57
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"text": "a whole lot of actual English words or\nin some other human language, and then",
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"duration": 4.29
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{
"text": "just one at a time, try\nthis word as your password,",
"start": 222.58,
"duration": 2.52
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{
"text": "this word as your password, this\nword as your password and so forth.",
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"duration": 3.06
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{
"text": "Because if you and I have chosen\na pretty guessable password, one",
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"duration": 3.87
},
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"text": "that is an actual word in a dictionary,\nthey're going to get into your account",
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"duration": 3.3
},
{
"text": "much faster.",
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"duration": 1.38
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{
"text": "But even if you and I are clever--",
"start": 236.71,
"duration": 1.8
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"text": "and odds are by this point in life\nyou know that you shouldn't just",
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"duration": 3.24
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"text": "choose a simple English or\nsome other language word,",
"start": 241.75,
"duration": 2.76
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"text": "but rather you should probably\nhave some numbers, some letters,",
"start": 244.51,
"duration": 3.12
},
{
"text": "some punctuation, or the\nlike-- you're still vulnerable,",
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"duration": 2.61
},
{
"text": "as am I, to what we would\ncall a brute force attack.",
"start": 250.24,
"duration": 4.02
},
{
"text": "Brute force sort of evokes\nthe memories of yesteryear",
"start": 254.26,
"duration": 5.4
},
{
"text": "where someone might have had\na big branch of a tree using",
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"duration": 2.94
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"text": "as a battering ram trying to get\ninto the castles from past times.",
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"duration": 3.33
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{
"text": "But brute force attacks\nin the digital world",
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"duration": 2.07
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"text": "mean something analogously, whereby\nyou're using software to digitally try",
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"duration": 4.83
},
{
"text": "all possible passwords.",
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"duration": 2.01
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{
"text": "And so here, too, are you vulnerable\nbecause if your password is too short,",
"start": 274.84,
"duration": 3.87
},
{
"text": "even if it's random with\nletters, numbers, and symbols,",
"start": 278.71,
"duration": 3.03
},
{
"text": "odds are an adversary or a\nhacker that has enough time",
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"duration": 2.79
},
{
"text": "and enough technical\nsavvy, they can just try",
"start": 284.53,
"duration": 2.19
},
{
"text": "every possible password in the world.",
"start": 286.72,
"duration": 2.67
},
{
"text": "And eventually, they might\nvery well get into your system.",
"start": 289.39,
"duration": 3.01
},
{
"text": "So how do we go about defending\nagainst these kinds of attacks?",
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"duration": 4.222
},
{
"text": "Well, we use these passwords,\nbut these passwords of course",
"start": 296.622,
"duration": 2.458
},
{
"text": "come in different forms.",
"start": 299.08,
"duration": 1.0
},
{
"text": "And it's kind of a low bar that is\nset by default on a lot of devices",
"start": 300.08,
"duration": 4.7
},
{
"text": "still nowadays.",
"start": 304.78,
"duration": 0.75
},
{
"text": "For instance, on your\nphone if you'd like",
"start": 305.53,
"duration": 2.04
},
{
"text": "to chime in here in the chat, how many\ncharacters or digits, in particular,",
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"duration": 5.49
},
{
"text": "are typically required of systems?",
"start": 313.06,
"duration": 1.815
},
{
"text": "Well, I would conjecture that\nvery often when I set up a phone,",
"start": 314.875,
"duration": 2.625
},
{
"text": "I'm only asked for a passcode, a\nnumeric password, of four digits alone.",
"start": 317.5,
"duration": 5.4
},
{
"text": "Now, if you have a four-digit passcode\nor password more generally, how secure",
"start": 322.9,
"duration": 6.99
},
{
"text": "is that?",
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"duration": 0.66
},
{
"text": "And how do we even go about thinking\nabout how secure that password is?",
"start": 330.55,
"duration": 4.23
},
{
"text": "Well, I would propose that we could\nstart to measure not even using",
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"duration": 3.45
},
{
"text": "fancy math, but just some basic\nheuristics, we could measure",
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"duration": 2.76
},
{
"text": "the security of a password that has\njust four digits by considering well,",
"start": 340.99,
"duration": 4.38
},
{
"text": "how many possible four-digit\npasscodes are there?",
"start": 345.37,
"duration": 3.06
},
{
"text": "So perhaps if you'd like to\nchime in here in the chat,",
"start": 348.43,
"duration": 2.25
},
{
"text": "how many possible passwords\nare there if they're",
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"duration": 3.36
},
{
"text": "all digits 0 through 9, decimal digits,\nand if you only have four of them?",
"start": 354.04,
"duration": 4.95
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{
"text": "How many possibilities are there?",
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"duration": 1.87
},
{
"text": "I'm seeing 1,000.",
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"duration": 0.92
},
{
"text": "I'm seeing 10,000.",
"start": 361.78,
"duration": 1.02
},
{
"text": "I'm seeing 9,999.",
"start": 362.8,
"duration": 2.55
},
{
"text": "And I'm seeing a whole range.",
"start": 365.35,
"duration": 1.283
},
{
"text": "And I think a lot of you\nhave the answer is spot on.",
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"duration": 2.167
},
{
"text": "It's 10,000.",
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"duration": 1.71
},
{
"text": "It's 10,000.",
"start": 370.51,
"duration": 0.82
},
{
"text": "Why?",
"start": 371.33,
"duration": 0.5
},
{
"text": "Well if we just think\nabout this numerically,",
"start": 371.83,
"duration": 2.04
},
{
"text": "if I've got four decimal\ndigits, 0 through 9, well,",
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"duration": 3.24
},
{
"text": "the smallest password I could come\nup with, so to speak, would be 0000.",
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"duration": 4.02
},
{
"text": "And the largest password I could\ncome up with would be 99999.",
"start": 381.13,
"duration": 4.35
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{
"text": "Now, you might think OK, well,\nthat's, obviously 9,999 possibilities.",
"start": 385.48,
"duration": 4.32
},
{
"text": "But not quite because if you include\n0000, that's the 10,000th possibility.",
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"duration": 5.97
},
{
"text": "So indeed there's 10,000\npossible passwords",
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"duration": 3.69
},
{
"text": "if we're using four digits specifically.",
"start": 399.46,
"duration": 2.98
},
{
"text": "So how do we actually think\nabout that more generally,",
"start": 402.44,
"duration": 2.45
},
{
"text": "especially so that we can now figure out\nthe math for larger passwords as well?",
"start": 404.89,
"duration": 4.36
},
{
"text": "Well, if you've got 0 through\n9 as the first possible digit,",
"start": 409.25,
"duration": 3.26
},
{
"text": "and 0 through 9 as the\nnext, and 0 through 9",
"start": 412.51,
"duration": 2.13
},
{
"text": "is the third, and 0\nthrough 9 as the fourth,",
"start": 414.64,
"duration": 2.49
},
{
"text": "you have 10 possibilities times 10\npossibilities times 10 times 10.",
"start": 417.13,
"duration": 3.833
},
{
"text": "This, of course, if we do\nit out more mathematically",
"start": 420.963,
"duration": 2.167
},
{
"text": "is 10 to the fourth power,\nthe exponent being 4.",
"start": 423.13,
"duration": 3.42
},
{
"text": "And that, of course,\ngives us 10,000 as well.",
"start": 426.55,
"duration": 2.53
},
{
"text": "So that might be the more\nmathematical way of approaching it,",
"start": 429.08,
"duration": 2.81
},
{
"text": "versus just the more intuitive, that\n0000 can go all the way up to 9999.",
"start": 431.89,
"duration": 5.28
},
{
"text": "Now, again, a question\nfor the group, how long",
"start": 437.17,
"duration": 2.79
},
{
"text": "do you think it might take\nfor an adversary or a hacker",
"start": 439.96,
"duration": 4.17
},
{
"text": "to get into my device, for\ninstance, my phone, if I do",
"start": 444.13,
"duration": 4.41
},
{
"text": "have a four-digit password?",
"start": 448.54,
"duration": 3.06
},
{
"text": "If I've got a four-digit password, this\nmeans there might have to try as many",
"start": 451.6,
"duration": 3.42
},
{
"text": "as 10,000 possibilities because in the\neasiest case, sure, they get lucky,",
"start": 455.02,
"duration": 5.49
},
{
"text": "and my password is\nstill the default 0000.",
"start": 460.51,
"duration": 2.73
},
{
"text": "But in the worst case, I chose\n9999, and they don't get to that",
"start": 463.24,
"duration": 3.57
},
{
"text": "until the very end of their attempts.",
"start": 466.81,
"duration": 1.74
},
{
"text": "Or maybe I choose\nsomething there in between.",
"start": 468.55,
"duration": 2.22
},
{
"text": "I'm seeing 10 seconds, less than a\nsecond, milliseconds, 10 seconds a day,",
"start": 470.77,
"duration": 3.99
},
{
"text": "4 hours.",
"start": 474.76,
"duration": 1.02
},
{
"text": "So the responses are all over the place.",
"start": 475.78,
"duration": 2.59
},
{
"text": "So how can we go about actually\nmeasuring this or estimating this?",
"start": 478.37,
"duration": 3.72
},
{
"text": "Well, let me propose this.",
"start": 482.09,
"duration": 1.13
},
{
"text": "I'm going to go over\nto my computer here.",
"start": 483.22,
"duration": 1.708
},
{
"text": "And even if you've never\nwritten any code before,",
"start": 484.928,
"duration": 2.942
},
{
"text": "let's go ahead and write\nsome code together here.",
"start": 487.87,
"duration": 2.4
},
{
"text": "I'm going to go ahead and open a\nprogram called VS Code, Visual Studio",
"start": 490.27,
"duration": 3.63
},
{
"text": "Code, which is a free program\nthat we use in CS50 more generally",
"start": 493.9,
"duration": 3.57
},
{
"text": "that allows me to write code\non my Mac or PC or really",
"start": 497.47,
"duration": 3.42
},
{
"text": "any internet-based device.",
"start": 500.89,
"duration": 1.38
},
{
"text": "And I can actually write code,\nand not only write it, but run it.",
"start": 502.27,
"duration": 3.22
},
{
"text": "And I'm going to write code, in this\ncase, in a language called Python.",
"start": 505.49,
"duration": 2.99
},
{
"text": "And this is just a\nvery popular language,",
"start": 508.48,
"duration": 1.83
},
{
"text": "but I could use any of a dozen or\nmore different programming languages.",
"start": 510.31,
"duration": 4.02
},
{
"text": "And the goal here is\nnot to learn Python--",
"start": 514.33,
"duration": 2.01
},
{
"text": "for that, we have whole other classes--",
"start": 516.34,
"duration": 2.01
},
{
"text": "but to just demonstrate what\nan adversary, what a hacker",
"start": 518.35,
"duration": 3.959
},
{
"text": "need to do if they want to get into, for\ninstance, your iPhone or Android device",
"start": 522.309,
"duration": 4.411
},
{
"text": "or anything that has just\na four-digit password.",
"start": 526.72,
"duration": 3.48
},
{
"text": "Now, my presumption here\nfor demonstration sake",
"start": 530.2,
"duration": 2.4
},
{
"text": "is that I'm going to go ahead\nand write code that just prints",
"start": 532.6,
"duration": 2.79
},
{
"text": "all possible passwords on the screen.",
"start": 535.39,
"duration": 2.29
},
{
"text": "But you could imagine if I had a USB\ncable or maybe a lightning cable,",
"start": 537.68,
"duration": 3.83
},
{
"text": "I could connect this\nphone to this laptop,",
"start": 541.51,
"duration": 2.76
},
{
"text": "especially if it's your phone\nthat I just swiped from a table,",
"start": 544.27,
"duration": 3.03
},
{
"text": "could quickly plug it\ninto my computer here,",
"start": 547.3,
"duration": 1.95
},
{
"text": "run the code that I'm about to\nwrite, and maybe automatically send",
"start": 549.25,
"duration": 3.54
},
{
"text": "all 10,000 possibilities to\nyour device before you even",
"start": 552.79,
"duration": 3.72
},
{
"text": "realize the phone is gone.",
"start": 556.51,
"duration": 1.5
},
{
"text": "Now, here's how I'm going to do this.",
"start": 558.01,
"duration": 1.72
},
{
"text": "I'm going to go ahead, and in\na text file called crack.py,",
"start": 559.73,
"duration": 3.35
},
{
"text": "where crack is actually a term of art.",
"start": 563.08,
"duration": 1.78
},
{
"text": "It just means to figure\nout what a password is,",
"start": 564.86,
"duration": 2.69
},
{
"text": "to brute force your way in.",
"start": 567.55,
"duration": 1.53
},
{
"text": "I'm going to go ahead and\nfrom a library called string.",
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"duration": 4.14
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"text": "I'm going to go ahead and import digits.",
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"text": "Now, this is a very easy\nway of just giving me",
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"text": "I could obviously type them\nall out on my keyboard.",
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"text": "This is a little faster\nbecause this gives me",
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"text": "Now, there's a bunch of different\nways I can write this code.",
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"text": "But what I really want\nto do intuitively is",
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"text": "try all possible digits for\nthe second, then for the third,",
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"text": "then for the fourth.",
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"text": "So one way of doing this\nmight be as follows.",
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"text": "something for as long as I want you to.",
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"text": "And then I'm going to give\nmyself a variable, like in math,",
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"text": "digits, I want to go ahead\nand do the following.",
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"text": "Well, for each of those i\ndigits, for the first value,",
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"text": "I want to do for j in digits as well.",
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"text": "And then for each value\nfor my third placeholder,",
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"text": "I might do something\nlike for k in digits.",
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"text": "And then lastly, I might\ndo for l in digits.",
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"text": "So this is admittedly\nnot the best design.",
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"text": "And those of you who've\nprogrammed before",
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"text": "are probably cringing that I have this\nindentation, indentation, indentation.",
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"text": "But it's a simple way of demonstrating,\nespecially for those unfamiliar",
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"text": "with programming, how we can\ntry all possible first digits,",
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"text": "all possible second, all possible\nthird, all possible fourth.",
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"text": "And all I'm going to do, bury inside\nof this code now is print out the value",
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"text": "of i, j, k, and l so that iteratively,\nwe should see on the screen 0000",
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"text": "and then all the way up to 9999.",
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"text": "So if you assume that I've\nconnected my phone to this laptop,",
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"text": "ideally, then, we'll have an estimation\nof how long it might take until we",
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"text": "actually have cracked into the device.",
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"text": "So let's go ahead and do this.",
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"text": "I'm going to open up a separate\nwindow on my screen here called",
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"text": "a terminal window.",
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"text": "And I'm going to go ahead\nand run Python of crack.py.",
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"text": "So in just a moment\nwe're going to see is",
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"text": "it going to take a few minutes, a few\nmilliseconds, a day, four hours, or--",
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"text": "here we go.",
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"text": "1, 2, 3, go.",
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"text": "So those of you who estimated just\na few milliseconds were spot on.",
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"text": "So what's the takeaway here?",
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"text": "Well, apparently using\na four-digit password",
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"text": "is not very secure at all\nbecause look how quickly",
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"text": "I, the adversary, the hacker in the\nstory, was able to get into your phone.",
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"text": "And in fact, I could probably\nunplug it at that point",
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"text": "because I've gotten whatever\ndata I care about off your phone.",
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"text": "And you might not be none the wiser.",
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"text": "So how can we go about\nimproving upon this system?",
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"text": "Well, let me propose that instead\nof using a four-digit passcode,",
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"text": "let's use four letters instead.",
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"text": "And we'll use English because\nthat's what I speak well.",
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"text": "And in English, we have 26 letters\nof the alphabet, A through Z.",
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"text": "But you know what?",
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"text": "That might give us initially 26\npossibilities for the first position,",
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"text": "times 26, times 26, times 26\nfor the second through fourth.",
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"duration": 3.72
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"text": "But let me propose that we actually\nuse lowercase and uppercase letters.",
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"text": "So that gives me not 26, but 52\npossibilities for each location.",
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"text": "So if I do 52 possibilities,\nthat's 52 to the fourth power.",
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"text": "And does anyone want to estimate\nhow many possible passwords there",
"start": 760.5,
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"text": "are if I'm using four English\nletters now, uppercase or lowercase?",
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"text": "I'm seeing 26 to the fourth power.",
"start": 771.34,
"duration": 2.45
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"text": "But that's not right if we're\nusing uppercase and lowercase.",
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"text": "It's indeed 52 to the fourth power.",
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"text": "And I'm seeing \"a lot.\"",
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"text": "But here we have estimates along the\nlines of indeed 7 million as well.",
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"text": "So with 7 million possibilities,\nyou might think, OK, surely,",
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"text": "that's going to be a lot better.",
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"text": "And it's going to take the adversary\na lot longer to hack into this phone.",
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"text": "But let's try that.",
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"text": "Let me go back to my\nterminal window here.",
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"text": "Let me reopen now my code file, and\nlet's go ahead and use not digits,",
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"text": "but let's go ahead\nand use ASCII letters.",
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"text": "For those unfamiliar, ASCII\nletters are simply the letters A",
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"text": "through Z in both\nuppercase and lowercase.",
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"text": "Now, here I have to go ahead and change\nthis from digits to ASCII letters,",
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"text": "from digits to ASCII letters,\nfrom digits to ASCII letters,",
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"text": "and lastly, from digits\nto ASCII letters.",
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"text": "Again, there's an easier way\nI could implement this code",
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"text": "to be more succinct\nand less duplicative,",
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"text": "but it involves some features that we'll\nintroduce in another class altogether.",
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"text": "But now I have all possible ASCII\nletters from my first placeholder",
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"text": "to the last.",
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"text": "Let's go ahead and open up\nthat same terminal window.",
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"text": "Let's run Python of crack.py.",
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"text": "And here now is the answer to how\nlong might it take an adversary",
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"text": "to get into your phone if you're using\nfour letters of the English alphabet",
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"text": "for your password instead.",
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"text": "So this time, I have enough time to walk\nall the way over to the screen here.",
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"text": "And you can see that we're going in\nalphabetical order, first lowercase,",
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"text": "now uppercase.",
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"text": "But in just a moment, we are done.",
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"text": "And we're down all the way to ZZZZ.",
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"text": "So that was a few seconds,\nwhich is indeed slower,",
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"text": "but that really wasn't\nthat much effort at all.",
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"text": "So presumably, then, even\nfour letters of the alphabet",
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"text": "might not be enough to keep us secure.",
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"text": "So let me go ahead and do what\nwe all are told to do anyway,",
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"text": "which is to go into your phone\nor whatever device in question",
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"text": "and actually use four\ncharacters perhaps instead.",
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"text": "So not just letters, not just digits,\nbut let's toss in some punctuation",
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"text": "as well.",
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"text": "And in the world of punctuation,\nat least on a US English keyboard,",
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"text": "there's typically as many as 94\npossibilities for letters, numbers,",
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"text": "and punctuation because we\nhave 26 lowercase letters, 26",
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"text": "uppercase letters, 10\ndecimal digits, 0 through 9,",
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"text": "and another 32 punctuation symbols\nthat we can add into the mix as well.",
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"text": "So that gives me 94 possible\nkeys that I can hit here,",
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"text": "or 94 to the fourth power.",
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"text": "And does anyone want to\nestimate what this is?",
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"text": "We've gone from 10,000\nto 7 million to I'm",
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"text": "seeing it in the chat, roughly\n78 million possibilities, so",
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"text": "in some sense, 10 times more secure.",
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"text": "Let's go back to my terminal\nwindow, open up my code here,",
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"text": "and import not only ASCII letters, but\nalso the digits from before, and also,",
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"text": "this time, some punctuation as well.",
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"text": "Now let's go ahead and change\njust the ASCII letters alone",
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"text": "to ASCII letters plus those\ndigits plus that punctuation.",
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"text": "And just to save some time, I'm going\nto highlight and copy what I just typed,",
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"text": "and I'm going to change the second\nposition, the third position,",
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"text": "and the fourth position, as well, to use\nthat combination of 94 possibilities.",
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"text": "I'm going to open up my\nterminal window again.",
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"text": "I'm going to run Python of crack.py.",
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"text": "And this time, because we have\n10 times as many possibilities,",
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"text": "I kind of had 10 times the amount\nof time to walk over to the screen",
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"text": "because indeed we're still in\nthe lowercase Es, Fs, Gs, Hs.",
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"text": "And now it looks a bit like\na Hollywood movie maybe.",
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"text": "You can perhaps see, even though\nit's going across the screen fast,",
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"text": "that there's a lot of\ncryptic output here",
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"text": "and the punctuation.",
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"text": "So it looks a little fancy at that.",
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"text": "Now, you might recall,\ntoo, from Hollywood movies,",
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"text": "too, that they tend to be very dramatic.",
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"text": "And so instead of just doing this, which\nis iterating from left to right very",
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"text": "slowly, the movies and TV\nshows tend to very dramatically",
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"text": "get, like, the third character right,\nthen the first character right, then",
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"text": "the fourth character right.",
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"text": "And then just in time, you\nget the second one as well.",
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"text": "That's not really ho brute force works.",
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"text": "You tend to do things methodically, not\njumping around from symbol to symbol.",
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"text": "But this is clearly taking a long time.",
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"text": "And I'm not even going to finish waiting\nfor this to go because we still have",
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"text": "to get through all the punctuation.",
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"text": "So this is to say, ultimately, that\n78 million possibilities is actually",
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"text": "getting up there pretty fast.",
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"text": "But honestly, if we come\nback in like a minute or so,",
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"text": "I bet that will be finished nonetheless.",
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"text": "And none of us hopefully has a\npassword that's only four characters",
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"text": "nowadays, letters,\nnumbers, and punctuation.",
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"text": "Odds are it's at least a\nconventional eight characters.",
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"text": "And indeed most websites and apps\nrequire as much of you as well.",
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"text": "Now, the math here is\npretty straightforward too.",
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"text": "If you have 94 possibilities, but you\nhave eight characters in total now, now",
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"text": "that's 94 to the eighth power.",
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"text": "And does anyone want a\nballpark just how many",
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"text": "passwords are possible if it's\nonly eight characters, which",
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"text": "isn't even that long but you\nhave eight of them total?",
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"text": "Too many, comes back one answer.",
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"text": "Too much to count.",
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"text": "I see that we've given up here.",
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"text": "But, oh, I did see one in the chat.",
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"text": "It's roughly this many\npossible passwords,",
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"text": "which is actually a\nlittle hard to figure out.",
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"text": "So this is, let's see, millions,\nbillions, trillions quadrillions.",
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"text": "So this is 6 quadrillion possibilities.",
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"text": "So now we're talking.",
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"text": "Now the adversary is probably going\nto run out of time, run out of energy,",
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"text": "run out of money, run\nout of lifetime if it's",
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"text": "going to take this much\ntime to try to crack,",
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"text": "so to speak, your particular password.",
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"text": "And so here's one of our first\ntakeaways when it comes to cybersecurity",
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"duration": 3.39
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"text": "and securing our accounts.",
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"text": "It really is this game of\nrelativity and resources.",
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"text": "What we're really doing here\nis not something fundamentally",
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"text": "different by adding in digits\nand letters and punctuation.",
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"text": "It sort of still the same formula,\nthe same approach to our passwords.",
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"text": "But as we add complexity, and\nas we make it longer and longer,",
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"text": "we're raising the bar to the adversary.",
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"text": "Why?",
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"text": "Well, so long as you and I don't do\nsomething dumb like still choose 0000",
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"text": "0000 so long as we're choosing something\nthat's pretty random in that range of 6",
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"duration": 6.027
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"text": "quadrillion possibilities, it's going\nto take the adversary way more time than",
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"text": "it would otherwise to brute force\ntheir way into that password.",
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"text": "And so by the time they\nfinally get into the account,",
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"text": "you might have changed\nthe password already,",
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"text": "you might not be using the account\nanymore, or you or the adversary",
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"text": "might not even be on\nthis planet anymore.",
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"text": "And that's indeed the goal.",
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"text": "But there is a downside, of course.",
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"text": "The longer your password gets,\nand the more complicated it gets,",
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"text": "the more likely you and\nI are to not even be",
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"text": "able to remember what that password is.",
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"text": "And so here is that sort\nof balancing act, trying",
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"text": "to figure out this balance between the\nusability of the account, just how user",
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"text": "friendly it is to access, versus\nthe security of that account.",
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"text": "And finding that inflection point\nis somewhat personal or somewhat",
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"text": "corporate in policy, typically.",
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"text": "Well, let me pause here and see\nif there are any questions now",
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"text": "on securing our accounts\nvia passwords alone.",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: I was wondering.",
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"text": "A couple of years ago, there\nwere devices, USB devices,",
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"text": "with fingerprint recognition.",
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"text": "How come that's not\nmore frequently used?",
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"text": "Or are they too expensive or--",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: A really\ngood question, and we'll",
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"text": "come to this topic in a little\nbit on biometrics more generally.",
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"text": "But your intuition is pretty much right.",
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"text": "It's expensive to have another device.",
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"text": "And most consumers are not\ngoing to bother wasting money",
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"text": "on something just for them.",
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"text": "Some companies might.",
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"text": "But if they have a lot of employees,\nthat could get very costly.",
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"text": "But you might be glad to know that\none of the topics we'll end on today",
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"text": "is a new technology called\npasskeys that actually leverages",
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"text": "a device you most likely already have,\na phone, that might use your fingerprint",
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"text": "or might use your face or\nsome other form of biometrics.",
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"text": "That's becoming more common\nnowadays, or soon will,",
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"text": "even for your laptop and desktop which\nwill talk to that phone, in some form.",
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"text": "How about one more question\nhere on securing accounts.",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: My question is, why if\nfour-digits password is so unsafe,",
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"text": "why is some program still using this\npassword not a website, like program?",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: Oh, really good question.",
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"text": "Why are some programmers using this?",
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"text": "So it's a trade off between\nusability and security.",
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"text": "If you are the programmer\ndesigning the system,",
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"text": "you presumably want users to\nuse the system and to come back",
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"text": "and to keep using it.",
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"text": "But if you make it too\nhard for them to access",
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"text": "that account, if you increase\nthe probability that they're",
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"text": "going to constantly forget their\npassword, lose their password,",
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"text": "they might just stop using your system\nor your app or your website altogether.",
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"text": "And so that's probably not a good thing.",
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"text": "Other reasons might\ninclude just unawareness",
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"text": "or not having taken a class on\ncybersecurity or not having really",
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"text": "thought through the implications\nof having such short passcodes.",
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"text": "So nowadays is industry's\nstarting to nudge us",
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"text": "in better and better directions.",
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"text": "But we'll see today and\nthe rest of this class",
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"text": "that there are still going to be a lot\nof trade offs, again, between usability",
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"text": "and security.",
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"text": "So what can we do to defend ourselves\nagainst these brute force attacks?",
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"text": "Well, at least here in the\nUS, there's an organization",
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"text": "called the National Institute\nof Standards and Technology,",
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"text": "Otherwise known as NIST, that\nactually issues recommendations",
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"text": "for how we as consumers or\ncompanies or more generally,",
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"text": "humans can go about securing\ntheir accounts more effectively.",
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"text": "And we thought we'd share just\nsome of these recommendations",
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"text": "so that it informs not only your own\nbehavior as an individual citizen",
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"text": "or consumer, but perhaps if\nyou're in a place of business",
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"text": "where you can influence\nyour own company's policies,",
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"text": "here are generally what are\nconsidered best practices nowadays.",
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"text": "So a quote from their\nrecommendations, \"memorized secrets",
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"text": "shall be at least eight\ncharacters in length.\"",
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"text": "So that at least corroborates\nthe quick math and the test",
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"text": "that we ourselves just ran, that\nonly once we got up to, like,",
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"text": "6 quadrillion possibilities\ndid it feel like it",
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"text": "was going to take a very long time to\nactually hack into someone's device.",
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"text": "So consider that for your own\naccounts, even on your phones.",
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"text": "You might have to go\nthrough a few menu options",
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"text": "to upgrade from just four\ndigits to something more.",
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"duration": 3.27
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"text": "But odds are you'll benefit from\nthis additional layer of security.",
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"text": "This one's more of a\nmouthful but helpful",
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"text": "as well, \"verifiers,\" so\nthe website or app that's",
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"text": "verifying your input when you\nauthenticate with your username",
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"text": "and password-- \"verifiers should permit\nsubscriber-chosen memorized secrets",
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"text": "of at least 64 characters in length.",
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"text": "All printing ASCII characters\nas well as the space characters",
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"text": "should be acceptable\nin memorized secrets.",
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"text": "Unicode characters should\nbe accepted as well.\"",
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"text": "Now, if you're not\nyourself a computer person,",
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"text": "there's a bit of jargon within this.",
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"text": "But first of all, the takeaways are\nthat websites and applications should",
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"text": "let you and me come\nup with passwords that",
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"text": "are actually as long as 64 characters.",
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"text": "Now, that's pretty long, but\nthat's exactly the point,",
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"text": "particularly as it's\ngotten more difficult",
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"text": "for you and I to remember\nall of our passwords,",
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"text": "to come up with very complex passwords.",
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"text": "The reality is you and I\nmight very well be better off,",
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"text": "on the whole, by just choosing an\neasier-to-remember but much longer",
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"text": "password, for instance, a sentence,\na quote, a phrase that you",
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"text": "can more easily keep in your human\nmind but that doesn't necessarily",
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"text": "have a crazy amount of\npunctuation or digits or letters,",
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"text": "but at least is 64 characters in length.",
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"text": "So even if an adversary\ntries a dictionary attack,",
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"text": "trying all possible English\nwords or some other language,",
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"text": "even if they try a brute force attack,\nit's going to take them way too long",
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"text": "unless, of course, you do something\nfoolish like choose a 64-character",
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"text": "passcode that's 000 or so forth.",
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"text": "So you still want to be\noriginal within that space.",
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"text": "Now, more technically, this\nrecommendation is referring to ASCII.",
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"text": "ASCII generally refers to US English\nsymbols on a US English keyboard,",
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"text": "as was the origin of this code system.",
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"text": "So that includes A\nthrough Z, 0 through 9,",
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"text": "and the punctuation\nI alluded to earlier.",
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"text": "But websites and apps\nnowadays should also",
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"text": "support Unicode, including things like\nemoji and other accented characters",
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"text": "or symbols that you might have\nin languages beyond English.",
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"text": "Unfortunately, this is not really\ncommon practice, I dare say.",
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"text": "Just yesterday, I created an account\non a new website for the first time,",
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"text": "and it made me jump through\nhoops, so to speak, figuring out",
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"text": "and even then it told me I can\nonly use certain punctuation.",
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"text": "So I had to think about now\nwhich symbols I'm using.",
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"text": "That is a lot of friction that\nis not good for usability.",
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"text": "And it's of questionable value\nfor the security of the system",
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"text": "if I can't even remember\nthe thing afterward.",
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"text": "So keep this in mind, in general,\nthat your password should not only",
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"text": "should allow much longer\npasswords as well.",
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"text": "if systems allow them as well.",
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"text": "Now, here's another set of\nrecommendations from NIST.",
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"text": "\"Verifiers--\" the website or\nthe apps that we're using--",
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"text": "\"shall compare the\nprospective secrets--\"",
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"text": "well, then you should not be allowed\nto pick a password from that list",
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"text": "because it's essentially\nan alternative dictionary.",
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"text": "It essentially is a list of passwords\nthat a smart adversary should just",
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"text": "we've seen would take much more time.",
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"text": "Two, dictionary words.",
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"text": "So this we've already\nstipulated would be a good thing",
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"text": "to go through a big list of English\nwords or some other language",
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"text": "and try those first.",
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"text": "Three, repetitive or\nsequential characters, aaaaaa",
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"text": "or a slightly more creatively\nbut not good enough, 1235abcd.",
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"text": "I would also add 0000 and so\nforth into that category as well.",
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"text": "It's just too easy for\nthe adversary to guess",
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"text": "that maybe you're doing something\nrepetitive like that too.",
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"text": "And then lastly, context-specific\nwords, such as the name of the service,",
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"text": "the username, and derivatives thereof.",
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"text": "This is to say, if you sign up for\na Gmail account for the first time,",
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"text": "you should not be allowed by\nGoogle to choose a password",
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"text": "If you sign up for an\nAmazon account, you",
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"text": "should not be allowed by\nAmazon to have your password be",
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"text": "\"Amazon password\" or some such variant\nthereof because smart adversaries are",
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"text": "going to try those same heuristics.",
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"text": "And that's the catch too.",
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"text": "If you can think of it, even if\nyou think you're being clever,",
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"text": "odds are a just-as-clever adversary\ncan think of that heuristic as well",
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"text": "and prioritize those tricks\nbefore they resort to brute force,",
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"text": "like I did on my own laptop.",
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"text": "A few other recommendations as well.",
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"text": "\"Memorized secret verifiers\nshall not permit the subscriber",
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"text": "to store a hint that is inaccessible\nto an unauthenticated claimant.",
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"text": "Verifiers shall now prompt subscribers\nto use specific types of information,",
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"text": "for instance, 'what was the name of\nyour first pet?' when choosing memorize",
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"text": "secrets.\"",
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"text": "So there are a lot of companies, a lot\nof websites, a lot of applications that",
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"text": "violate this recommendation nowadays.",
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"text": "And in fact, I bet you can\nthink of one or more accounts",
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"text": "that you have where you've had\nto tell them, for instance, what",
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"text": "was the name of your first pet\nor your first car or your mother",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: OK.",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: We keep\nforgetting our passwords,",
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"text": "too, if we change it too frequently.",
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"text": "So that is not a good\npractice for a website.",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: Exactly.",
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"text": "If you make me change my\npassword too frequently,",
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"text": "you made me choose that's very complex,\nbut the second and the third as well.",
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"text": "Now, what do we mean by this?",
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"text": "or you kept typing it slightly wrong.",
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"text": "Maybe your phone screen\nwas wet so it wasn't",
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"text": "registering your fingertips properly.",
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"text": "It turns out you can lock\nyourself out of your own phone.",
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"text": "Android has a similar\nscreen, if, for instance, you",
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"text": "The presumption, by Apple and Google\nand others, is that if after 10 times",
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"text": "it's probably a higher probability\nthat you are not David,",
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"text": "stolen your phone, and\nis trying to get into it.",
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"text": "Now that's not always the case.",
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"text": "You can imagine situations where\nyou just were being absent minded.",
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"text": "And so there, too is, again, a trade\noff between usability and security.",
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"text": "But what's the point of this?",
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"text": "is it slows the adversary down.",
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"text": "can try 10,000 possible passwords\nin just less than a second.",
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"text": "for instance.",
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"text": "Nowadays, your company can buy these.",
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"text": "And what happens is on the screen\nhere, this one-time password",
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"text": "constantly changes every few seconds.",
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"text": "And it's synchronized\nsomehow with a server",
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"text": "so that the presumption is if I\nam carrying around this device,",
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"text": "and I type in when prompted,\nthis particular code,",
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"text": "and that code matches the synchronized\ncode that's on the server,",
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"text": "I should be allowed into the\naccount because the presumption is",
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"text": "that it's indeed David carrying\nthis around and not necessarily",
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"text": "some adversary.",
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"text": "It might also be possible to plug it\nin as via USB or some other technology,",
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"text": "thereby removing the\nhuman from the formula",
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"text": "so that the device itself\ncan just authenticate using",
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"text": "special software on the system instead.",
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"text": "Nowadays, though, you can\ndownload special apps,",
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"text": "whether it's one from Google\nor other companies, that",
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"text": "allow you to manage, all in one\nplace, all of these one-time passwords",
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"text": "that you might automatically\nsee updating on the screen.",
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"text": "And you can type any or all of\nthem in when you're actually",
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"text": "prompted by a website or app.",
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"text": "But even in this space of one-time\npasswords and possession factors,",
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"text": "it's worth keeping in mind\nthat some of these technologies",
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"text": "are more secure than others.",
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"text": "Now, it's very common\nfor websites or apps",
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"text": "nowadays to want to send you one of\nthese one-time passwords via text",
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"text": "message, for instance.",
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"text": "And you receive it via SMS.",
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"text": "And then you can type in that\nsix-digit code, as is often the case.",
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"text": "More secure, though, would be\nsomething like an actual app",
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"text": "that you install from the\nApp Store or the Google Play",
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"text": "store that actually talks\ndirectly to some server",
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"text": "and does not just go over\nthe cellular phone network.",
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"text": "Why is that?",
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"text": "Well, as you might know,\nin your phone is typically",
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"text": "a SIM card, either a physical\ncard, a little chip, or nowadays",
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"text": "it might actually be built\ninto the phone as well.",
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"text": "But that SIM card has\na unique identifier.",
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"text": "And when you sign up for phone\nservice, typically, with a company,",
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"text": "they need to know what the unique\nidentifier is of your SIM card,",
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"text": "be it something physical or something\nwired, hardwired into your device.",
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"text": "Why?",
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"text": "Because that's how they associate your\nphone number with that specific device.",
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"text": "The catch is that it's all too possible,\nand in some cases, all too easy,",
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"text": "to trick, even the phone companies, into\nswapping your SIM not necessarily doing",
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"text": "it physically per se, but\nconvincing the mobile phone",
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"text": "carriers to update\ntheir system to say, oh,",
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"text": "David now has this SIM card\nand not that original one.",
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"text": "That is to say, if I'm\nan adversary and I just",
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"text": "and I figure out what the unique\nID is, and maybe I call up",
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"text": "David's mobile phone provider,\nand I somehow convince them",
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"text": "that I am David by tricking them into\nbelieving it's me, as by telling them",
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"text": "all of that personal\ninformation about myself,",
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"text": "I might be able to convince\nthem to swap my SIM card,",
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"text": "the adversary's, with\nwhat is already on file.",
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"text": "The implication of that is that when\nDavid subsequently gets text messages,",
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"text": "they don't actually go\nto me, the real David.",
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"text": "They go to the adversary's phone as well\nbecause they're tied to that SIM card.",
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"text": "So in general nowadays,\nif you have a choice,",
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"text": "using some website or app to\nuse SMS or text-based messaging",
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"text": "versus a native application\nthat you install",
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"text": "onto your phone or other\ndevice, you should generally",
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"text": "prefer the latter, some\nfirst-class piece of software",
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"text": "that actually uses push\nnotifications or your data plan",
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"text": "and does not rely on SMS text messaging\nbecause of this potential threat.",
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"text": "So what are still other threats\nwhen it comes to these systems?",
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"text": "Well, it turns out that it's\nvery possible, unfortunately,",
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"text": "for adversaries to somehow get\nsoftware, malicious software,",
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"text": "otherwise known as malware,\nonto your Mac, onto your PC,",
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"text": "perhaps even onto your phone .",
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"text": "This might be because you\ninstalled a piece of software",
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"text": "that you shouldn't have trusted.",
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"text": "This might be because\nyour phone or your device",
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"text": "is infected with something\nlike a virus or a worm.",
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"text": "But in general, you might\nbe vulnerable to malware,",
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"text": "including software that\nlogs all of your keystrokes.",
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"text": "Key logging refers to exactly\nthat, some piece of software",
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"text": "or everything you tap into that device.",
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"duration": 2.34
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"text": "And what is this software\ndo with those keystrokes?",
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"text": "Very often it will upload them.",
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"duration": 1.71
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"text": "If there's an internet\nconnection, maybe to a server",
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"text": "that the adversary controls.",
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"text": "Now, what's the implication\nof this key logging threat?",
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"text": "Well, if you're typing in your\nusername, that's not such a big",
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"text": "because those are generally public.",
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"text": "But if you're typing in\nyour password, and that's",
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"text": "being automatically uploaded\nto the adversary's server,",
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"text": "now they know your\nusername and your password.",
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"text": "Worse, if the adversary\nalso sees you typing",
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"text": "in that six-digit code,\nyour one-time password",
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"text": "that you might have received even\nfrom your phone or some other device,",
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"text": "if they are fast enough and\nsmart enough and figure out",
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"text": "how to log what you're typing, send it\nto the server, perhaps even before you",
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"text": "yourself hit Enter, maybe they\ncan use not only your username",
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"text": "and your password, but\neven that one-time password",
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"text": "by pretending to be on their own\nphone or their own laptop or desktop,",
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"text": "typing in or more\nrealistically, automatically",
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"text": "through software typing\nin those same values",
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"text": "and accessing your account even before\nyou had a chance to do so as well.",
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"duration": 5.59
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"text": "Now what are the defenses\nagainst that particular threat?",
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"text": "Really just to be generally paranoid\nabout what computers you yourself use.",
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"text": "For instance, nowadays\nI will rarely, if ever,",
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"text": "actually use an internet cafe's\ncomputer or even a lab computer",
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"text": "here on Harvard's campus, or\nfrankly, even a friend's computer",
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"text": "because I don't know just how safe they\nare when it comes to best practices",
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"text": "using their device on the internet.",
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"text": "I will in general only\nlog into websites and apps",
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"text": "on my own personal devices, which\nisn't to say that I, too, am perfect,",
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"text": "but rather at least I'm\nreducing the probability",
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"text": "that I lose control over my data by\nusing some other device that I myself",
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"text": "don't oversee by that\nperson, that owner,",
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"text": "not themselves adhering\nto best practices.",
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"text": "Now, even then, I will\nadmit, that using key logging",
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"text": "and getting it up to\nan adversary's server",
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"text": "and inputting it faster than you might\nis a pretty sophisticated and difficult",
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"duration": 5.31
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"text": "threat.",
"start": 2678.32,
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"text": "But it's worth keeping in mind and\nrealizing that these are certainly",
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"text": "theoretical attacks.",
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"text": "And if you yourself are\ntargeted for some reason,",
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"text": "these are absolutely things\nyou should be mindful of.",
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"text": "So in general, if you have the\nluxury of only using your own device",
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"text": "and not some shared device that, too,\ntends to be best practice, I would say.",
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"text": "Any questions on these here attacks?",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: Regarding\nusing long passwords,",
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"duration": 2.25
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"text": "do you recommend using Google passwords\nor Apple passwords for the system",
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"duration": 5.49
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"text": "to remember the passwords for us?",
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"duration": 1.8
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: A really good question.",
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"duration": 1.5
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"text": "Short answer, yes,\nbut we'll come to that",
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"duration": 1.708
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"text": "in more detail in just a few minutes.",
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"duration": 1.782
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"text": "So what are other attacks\nthat we should be mindful of?",
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"text": "So this one has kind of a funny\nname, but there's this attack",
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"text": "known as credential stuffing.",
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"text": "And we've come across reference to this\nalready in this discussion thus far.",
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"text": "Credential stuffing-- a credential\nis something like a username",
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"text": "and password-- refers to\nthe process of an adversary",
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"text": "having found a whole bunch of\nusernames and passwords, maybe online,",
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"text": "maybe in some database\nthat they or someone else",
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"text": "attacked and posted for the\nwhole world to download.",
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"text": "Credential stuffing means not using\ndictionaries, not using brute force,",
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"text": "but just literally using a list of\nalready known usernames and passwords,",
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"text": "maybe from some other\napplication or website,",
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"text": "to try to stuff them\ninto a different website",
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"text": "to see if, well, maybe if David's using\nthis username and password over here,",
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"text": "with high probability, he's\nprobably using the same username",
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"text": "and password over here.",
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"text": "So credential stuffing is the\nthreat that, I daresay, many of you",
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"text": "are vulnerable to.",
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"text": "Now, you don't need to raise your\nhands and admit to this right now.",
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"text": "But if you are using the same\nusername and the same password",
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"text": "on 2 websites, 3\nwebsites, 30 websites, all",
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"duration": 4.65
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"text": "websites you are today\nvulnerable to this attack.",
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"text": "To be clear, if any one\nof those websites or apps",
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"text": "is compromised by some adversary and\nthey figure out all of the usernames",
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"text": "and passwords on that system, what\na smart adversary is going to do now",
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"text": "is to try that same\nusername and password,",
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"text": "they found for you on Amazon, on\nGmail, on any other website or app",
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"text": "that you with high probability might be\nusing just because those services are",
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"text": "popular.",
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"text": "So what's the takeaway?",
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"text": "Ideally, if you want to be immune\nto this kind of credential stuffing",
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"text": "attack, where someone takes your\ncredentials over here and tries",
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"text": "to stuff them into these\nother services over here,",
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"text": "you have to use different credentials\non each and every website,",
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"duration": 4.38
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"text": "on each and every app.",
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"duration": 1.14
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"text": "You cannot, should not be reusing the\nsame password on multiple websites",
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"duration": 5.82
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"text": "or apps.",
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"text": "Username?",
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"duration": 0.72
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"text": "Yes, especially if it's\nyour email address.",
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"duration": 2.26
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{
"text": "But passwords, no.",
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"text": "Now, this is admittedly\neasier said than done.",
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"duration": 1.99
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"text": "So we'll see soon how we can try to\nachieve this, avoiding credential",
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"duration": 4.16
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"text": "stuffing by having unique passwords,\nby at least having some help",
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"duration": 3.03
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{
"text": "when it comes to managing the same.",
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"duration": 1.92
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"text": "But there's another attack too\nthat's come up indirectly here",
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"duration": 2.88
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"text": "already known as social engineering.",
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"duration": 2.8
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"text": "Social engineering isn't a\ntechnical attack per se, but rather",
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"duration": 4.46
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"text": "a social one, an attack among humans.",
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"duration": 2.7
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{
"text": "For instance, let me go ahead\nand suggest the following.",
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"text": "If you have a piece of paper\nnear you and a pen or pencil,",
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"text": "go ahead and write down,\nif you could, on that piece",
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"text": "of paper one of your passwords.",
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"duration": 2.52
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"text": "Any of them is fine.",
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"text": "Just go ahead on this piece\nof paper in front of you",
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"text": "and write down one of\nyour passwords, including",
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"text": "any letters or digits or punctuation.",
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"duration": 5.32
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{
"text": "Now, I'm seeing in the\nchat some resistance.",
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"text": "you to do something, and\nyou took at face value",
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"text": "And you should wonder, wait a minute,\nwhy do they need that information?",
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"text": "Let me see how this plays out before\nI share anything about myself.",
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"text": "And indeed, if you\nwere, bless your hearts.",
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"text": "Now, after this, now, I know\nyou'll believe nothing I say.",
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"text": "But unfortunately, it's all\ntoo easy for an adversary",
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"text": "So how might phishing manifest\nitself in the real world?",
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"text": "Well, consider one of\nthose social media posts",
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"text": "from childhood.",
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"text": "So how else might phishing\nmanifest itself in the real world?",
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"text": "If you were to visit a\nscreen later today that",
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"text": "And frankly, I've seen\nthis so many times",
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"text": "But it's important to begin to\ndevelop an intuition or a suspicion",
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"text": "for when and when these sites\nmight not be legitimate.",
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"text": "How might you do that?",
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"text": "the actual link might\ntake you somewhere else.",
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"text": "Now, even then, it's hard sometimes\nto discern these kinds of things.",
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"text": "But these are just best practices.",
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"text": "You don't need to be so worried that\nyou don't go anywhere on the internet.",
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"text": "But you should learn to keep an\neye out for these kinds of things.",
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"text": "Enter, or manually go\nto gmail.com, Enter.",
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"text": "Don't just blindly trust these links.",
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"text": "Now, here again, we see a trade\noff between usability and security.",
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"text": "You have to manually open the page,\ntype it in manually, and so forth.",
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"text": "But again, it depends on what's\nnow more important to you,",
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"text": "This is even more worrisome when\nit comes to two-step verification.",
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"text": "And Google takes some liberties\nwith the wording here.",
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"text": "This is usually best described\nas two-factor authentication.",
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"text": "But again, the most\nsophisticated of adversaries,",
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"text": "tricked you into a visiting a website\nthat looks like Gmail but is not Gmail.",
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"text": "They could theoretically even prompt\nyou for a two-factor code like this.",
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"text": "change your password before you\neven get up and running therein.",
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"text": "It's a more sophisticated\nthreat, and it's not something",
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"text": "unless you are using certain defenses.",
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"text": "to take your data, to access your\naccounts or something more as well.",
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"text": "And at this point, you might\nbe feeling a bit defeated.",
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"text": "and there are still a few more to come.",
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"text": "But let's consider now kind of the\nsource of a lot of these problems.",
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"text": "Unfortunately, it's you, and it's me.",
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"text": "And it's one thing for me\nto preach here, so to speak,",
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"text": "hard to guess with letters and digits\nand punctuation still, maybe even 64",
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"text": "But honestly, there are also these\npressures on me not doing that.",
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"text": "It's annoying to type in 64 characters.",
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"text": "require uppercase, lowercase,\npunctuation, and the like.",
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"text": "And honestly, I have dozens, I have\nhundreds, maybe thousands of accounts",
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"text": "nowadays on the internet that\nhave accumulated over time.",
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"text": "What am I going to do if it just gets\ndifficult to remember these things?",
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"text": "Now, what is actually happening here?",
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"text": "Now, where does this\nleave us ultimately?",
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"text": "put it in the password\nmanager, and be done with it.",
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"text": "and security because\nif your takeaway is I",
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"text": "have to go change 1,000\npasswords tonight,",
"start": 4063.73,
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"text": "you might not realistically do it.",
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"text": "So better would be to change\na few of them and chip",
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"text": "away at this problem over time.",
"start": 4070.69,
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"text": "Let me pause here and see\nif there are any questions.",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: If a password\nmanager tool is so helpful, so",
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"text": "why we are using antivirus for websites?",
"start": 4080.41,
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: Oh, so you should certainly\nbe using antivirus for other reasons",
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"duration": 3.565
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"text": "that we'll talk about in another class.",
"start": 4087.665,
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"text": "Viruses, worms, and malware can\ndo any number of bad things,",
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"text": "including encrypting your\ndata, deleting your data,",
"start": 4093.23,
"duration": 2.81
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"text": "sending spam from your computer.",
"start": 4096.04,
"duration": 1.47
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"text": "There's many reasons you\nwant to run it instead.",
"start": 4097.51,
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"text": "However, if you have malware,\nlike a virus on your computer,",
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"text": "and it's logging all of your\nkeystrokes, theoretically you",
"start": 4103.27,
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"text": "could still be vulnerable\nto attack if they are also",
"start": 4106.84,
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"text": "logging your two-factor\ncode maybe because you",
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"duration": 3.27
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"text": "get distracted you don't hit Enter\nfast enough, and they can use that too.",
"start": 4114.37,
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"text": "It's a lower probability threat.",
"start": 4117.609,
"duration": 2.79
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"text": "It's a theoretical one.",
"start": 4120.399,
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"text": "But also in the interest\nof best practices,",
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"text": "you don't want any\nsoftware on your computer",
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"text": "that could be doing bad things anyway.",
"start": 4125.56,
"duration": 1.65
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"text": "You just want to raise the bar as\nmuch as you can to these adversaries",
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"text": "without making your\nown accounts unusable.",
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"text": "Another question.",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: Oh, yeah.",
"start": 4134.937,
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"text": "I had a question about social\nengineering, if that's fine.",
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"duration": 2.46
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"text": "And we know that the rise\nof the AI technology, now AI",
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"text": "can record your voice and sample it.",
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"text": "And that could be a real\nthreat in social engineering",
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"text": "because now someone can\nmimic your boss and call you",
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"text": "or someone can mimic your\nvoice and call your bank.",
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"text": "So is there a way to combat this?",
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"text": "Or is there any technology to\nprevent this from happening?",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: That's a really\ngood question and another piece",
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"text": "of advice I should reflect back.",
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"text": "If on any of your accounts,\nparticularly bank accounts,",
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"text": "you are using voice\nrecognition technology, whereby",
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"duration": 3.36
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"text": "when you set up the\naccount, you were prompted",
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"text": "to say a phrase into the phone,\nfor instance, to evoke an old movie",
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"text": "called Sneakers-- my voice\nis my password-- you should",
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"text": "disable those features\nand stop using them,",
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"duration": 2.67
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"text": "assuming there's an alternative, like\ntwo-factor authentication, whereby",
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"text": "they send you a push notification\nto an app or the like.",
"start": 4185.359,
"duration": 3.151
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"text": "Reason being, exactly that, is you've\nprobably seen in this age of AI,",
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"text": "there are technologies called deepfakes\nwhereby you can generate video,",
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"text": "but also audio of people.",
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"text": "This is very commonly done for\ncelebrities, for politicians,",
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"duration": 3.18
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"text": "and voices that you see\na lot on the internet.",
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"text": "But it would not be that hard if someone\nhas access to voice recordings of you",
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"text": "to use some software\nor some app to generate",
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"text": "saying, my voice is my password,\neven though you might not",
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"text": "have said that since the\ntime you set up the account.",
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"text": "And so your accounts,\ntoo, might be compromised.",
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"duration": 2.07
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"text": "So my own advice there would be don't\nuse voice-based recognition anymore,",
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"duration": 5.51
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"text": "if there's a better\nalternative available.",
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"text": "Other questions?",
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"text": "AUDIENCE: Doesn't having\none password manager,",
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"duration": 2.91
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"text": "so figuratively keeping\nall your keys in one safe,",
"start": 4235.76,
"duration": 4.56
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"text": "defeat the purpose of\nhaving different passwords?",
"start": 4240.32,
"duration": 2.94
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"text": "Because if you lose that one key\nto your key safe, all is gone.",
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"text": "DAVID MALAN: It's a\nreally good intuition,",
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"duration": 1.75
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"text": "and that's exactly the\ntrade off to think about.",
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"duration": 2.46
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"text": "I would consider in\ndeciding for yourself,",
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"duration": 2.22
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"text": "if you want to take that\nadvice, what the alternative is.",
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"duration": 3.0
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"text": "Because if you're using pretty\neasy-to-guess passwords everywhere,",
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"duration": 4.02
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"text": "this is probably a net positive to\nmove to a password manager instead.",
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"duration": 3.6
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"text": "If you're reusing the same password\non a lot of websites and apps,",
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"duration": 3.36
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"text": "this is probably a net positive to\nswitch to a password manager instead.",
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"duration": 5.1
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"text": "If, however, though, you've actually\nbeen a very good internet citizen,",
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"text": "and you've been choosing\nhard-to-guess, unique passwords",
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"duration": 3.135
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"text": "for all different sites-- they're\nnot written down on a post-it",
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"duration": 2.625
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"text": "or easily accessible-- then\nthis might be a net negative",
"start": 4284.81,
"duration": 2.85
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"text": "for you to put all of those\neggs, so to speak, in one basket,",
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"duration": 2.7
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"text": "thereby making them more vulnerable.",
"start": 4290.36,
"duration": 3.12
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{
"text": "From experience and from\nthe head nods and admissions",
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"duration": 3.06
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"text": "that we get from\nstudents over the years,",
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"duration": 1.78
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"text": "I guess that most of\nus in this room would",
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"text": "benefit as a net positive\nfrom a password manager.",
"start": 4301.13,
"duration": 2.85
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"text": "But there, too, you should\ndecide for yourself.",
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"duration": 2.322
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"text": "And again, one of our lessons\nfor today is don't just",
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"text": "believe something some guy\non the internet told you.",
"start": 4308.51,
"duration": 2.64
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"text": "Decide for yourself based on these trade\noffs, these upsides and. downsides.",
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"duration": 4.74
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"text": "Now, password managers\nare not all upside.",
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"duration": 2.94
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"text": "Indeed, if you lose or\nforget that primary password,",
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"duration": 3.9
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"text": "you might lose access to\nall of your other accounts.",
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"duration": 3.15
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"text": "Fortunately, there is\nan alternative that's",
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"duration": 2.13
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"text": "increasingly available on websites\nand apps known as passkeys.",
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"duration": 3.63
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"text": "And what's nice about passkeys\nis that moving forward,",
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"duration": 2.87
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"text": "it will be your Mac,\nyour PC, or your phone",
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"duration": 2.45
},
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"text": "that generates a passkey\nfor a new website",
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"duration": 2.79
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"text": "or app for which you're registering.",
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"duration": 1.62
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"text": "You yourself don't have to\nremember what that passkey is,",
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"duration": 2.91
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"text": "and indeed it isn't even just one value.",
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"duration": 2.01
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"text": "Rather it's a pair of values, a\nprivate value and a public value,",
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"text": "that have a mathematical\nrelationship between the two.",
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"duration": 3.0
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"text": "And those two values are used.",
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"duration": 2.2
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"text": "The next time you try to access that\nwebsite or application, your Mac,",
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"duration": 3.75
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"text": "your PC, or your phone will use those\nvalues to automatically authenticate",
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"duration": 3.89
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"text": "you thereafter.",
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"duration": 0.81
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"text": "And better yet those\nvalues are synchronized",
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"text": "as needed across your devices so\nthat you can use your Mac and your PC",
"start": 4365.94,
"duration": 3.96
},
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"text": "and your phone or any other\nsuch devices to authenticate.",
"start": 4369.9,
"duration": 3.06
},
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"text": "But to better understand\nthese passkeys, we'll",
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"duration": 2.22
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{
"text": "need to know a little something\nabout the world of cryptography.",
"start": 4375.18,
"duration": 3.52
},
{
"text": "And so for that, we'll wait for our\ndiscussion of securing your data.",
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"text": "So more on that next time.",
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