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Edward Snowden on Passwords: Last Week Tonight with John Olive (HBO)
Year of production: 2020
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why are passwords
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so important or why is it important that
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we have better ones
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than the ones that we do have because
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the ones that we do have are
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embarrassingly bad
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bad passwords are one of the easiest
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ways to compromise a system
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for somebody who has a very common eight
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character password uh
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it can literally take less than a second
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for a computer to go through the
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possibilities and pull that password out
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for an eight character password
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right right right my password is five
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characters
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that's not a joke that's bad right
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that's really bad
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okay so which of these seem like good
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options
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password but spelt w-e-r-d
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this is a joke right uh-huh
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no uh yes that would be within uh normal
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password dictionaries permutations of
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common words but it's misspelt though
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so that was the kind of tripwire on it
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right it's still
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eight characters even if it's not uh
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within your password dictionary which
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would mean
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okay okay okay it was about it's about
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it's bad ones it's a bad one
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that's why i got some more um one two
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three
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four but spelt out
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that's not gonna help you okay um limp
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bizkit forever
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with limp bizkit spelled properly but
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forever not
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that's also not gonna help you okay
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really i think the best
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the best advice here is to shift your
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thinking from past
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words to past phrases
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think about a common phrase that works
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for you
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that's too long to brute force and also
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make them unlikely to be in the
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dictionary
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admiral alonso ghost penis 420 yolo
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that's pretty good right it's memorable
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too
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right it's memorable it's got all the
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other things you like like characters
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and numbers
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yolo capital letters obviously i
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shouldn't say now i can't use it
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it can actually be a lot harder to
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remember a password that they
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tell you has to be 13 characters long or
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something like that it has to have
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exclamation points it has to have
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numbers it has to have uppercase and
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lowercase
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letters and things like that than it is
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to remember
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a simple phrase like margaret thatcher
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is 110
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sexy wow that is a password that not
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even a computer would guess
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now you're right okay i get it i get how
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important it is
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i i fully understand that the problem is
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i'm not gonna do it because
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it seems hard even though i know it
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isn't
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you're killing me sorry
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you
A 3-minute talk about password security: do’s and don’ts with funny examples from John Oliver and Edward Snowden.
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