278: Dice Gamble

In this first episode of 2019, Brian explains online security to Marshall as though he is a five-year-old, covering everything from DNSs to VPNs. In Follow-up, we read a few listener tweets, and as always, we share a couple Cool Things, including a misused city simulator and a social network for movie buffs.

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• Design Details - 1: "How Nerdy of an Answer Do You Want? (feat. Sam Soffes)" was released exactly four years before the day we recorded this episode (!)
• Claudio Guglieri used Readymag for the blog posts we mentioned in 273: "Bespoke, Artisanal, Single-Batch Blog Post"
• Listener Tweets:
  • Ravi Aujla hopes we'll keep talking about UX in games
  • Chrish Dunne alerted us to a hidden shortcut in Terminal
  • Federico Zanetello showed off his Home app inspired by our smart home episode

• The tweet that started it all
• 1Password Watchtower helps you find passwords you need to change
• Lastpass is a good password manager, too
• Article: "Password Autofill in iOS 12 now works with 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass"
• Wikipedia: Multi-factor authentication
• Article: "The SIM Hijackers"
• Podcast: Reply All - 97: "What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished?"
• Google 2-Step Verification
• Article: "Gmail for iOS now receives 2-Step Verification Prompts, new default over Google app"
• Article: "Data of 143 million Americans exposed in hack of credit reporting agency Equifax"
• Encrypt your Mac backups by going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > File Vault
• 1.1.1.1 is a faster, more private DNS by Cloudflare
• iVPN is the VPN service Brian uses
• Encrypt.me comes as part of the eero Plus package
• Webcam covers on Amazon (not an affiliate link)
• To see all the apps that have access to your camera, go to Settings > Privacy > Camera for switches
• Adblock blocks ads
• Brave is a privacy-focused browser built on Chromium
• Duck Duck Go is a privacy-focused search engine
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers is an extension that walls off sites
• Article: The Wired Guide to Digital Security
• Article: "Introducing CYBER: A Hacking Podcast by Motherboard"
• Podcast: Reply All - 97: "What Kind of Idiot Gets Phished?" (again)

• Marshall shared Pres, a YouTube creator who makes beautifully realistic cities in Cities: Skylines
  • Video: "Crazy Ira and the Douche"
  • Article: "How Cities: Skylines took a great big slice of SimCity"
  • Article: "Steam users have already declared the winner in the great coaster sim war"
  • Video Playlists: New Windsor and Calavera Beach
  • A few more great detailer channels: Silvarett, Fluxtrance, Strictoaster, two dollars twenty, and the Bob Ross of city sims, ImperialJedi
• Brian shared Letterboxd, a social network for film lovers
  • Kevin Clark's tweet clued Brian in on the service
  • Watchlist by Keegan Jones lets you save movies to watch later

• Video: "Tigger TTFN"

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