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418: Interview With James Chiappetta, Security Expert From Better Appsec
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This week we are pleased to welcome James Chiappetta, Security Expert from Better Appsec.
An intro to the human element of security.
What are the most common iphone PINs and what drives the creation of them? http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-passcodes
Is a 6 digit PIN really more secure than a 4 digit PIN?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.04868.pdf >> In a throttled scenario, simply increasing the PIN length is of little benefit. In our results, there was no significant difference between 4- and 6-digit PINs within the first 100 guesses
Product and Usability/Convenience - Opting in vs Opting out
What is the responsibility of consumer brands on data privacy and security?
GDPR - accept all cookies?
Steve Job’s stance on prompting the user about the decision of opt in vs opt out
How or when does the question of optin vs opt on get asked factor in?
Consumer empowerment. The individual should be able to actively manage their own data via consent, access, and correction mechanisms. In the event of a lack of adherence to these principles, there must be a way for the individual to address the breach without negative consequences. >> https://lolokaufman.medium.com/is-privacy-by-design-enough-12aa4fddb747
413: The Ultimate Technical Debt
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Jerry talks about what he likes about SmallCube.
The group talks about Apple supporting old hardware.
Joe finally purchased a new refurbished Mac!
Jerry talks about a problem with a computer that would not download Big Sur and kept going black that had a weird solution.
This leads into Joe’s story about problems with a laggy bluetooth keyboard.
Pro tip: Don’t let your device just sit around for a long period of time.
Jerry shares a theory about kernel panics.
People don’t read on screen warnings, which can lead to trouble.
They have a conversation about how useful Omni Disk Sweeper is.
Joe has an update to the df command thanks to listener Viktor Glemme.
Terminal commands can be very helpful and efficient if you learn how to work with them.
Jerry shares a story about a client that had trouble going to certain secure websites with Safari.
411: It’s Weird That It's Not Weird
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The group discusses the less than fruitful tech tag sale.
It’s weird that it isn’t weird to see people after awhile during the pandemic.
They talk about how things went when they met up for the first time in awhile.
Sam will not forget that Jerry owes him a cookie.
Joe struggled to diagnose a slow computer the other day. Turns out it was a heating problem and Jerry had to swoop in.
He shares an app he used to check the fan speed of a computer called Macs fan control. https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control/download.
The group thanks people who in the Slack community.
After Jerry praised Harmonizly a couple shows back, Joe suggested the app to a client and Sam ended up using it as well.
https://harmonizely.com/?fpr=macworksSam shares a story about how he had to perform a wipe and setup a UDM Pro for a client whose previous technician had set himself as the owner. This leads to some head scratching results.
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410: The Person Who Blows The Horn
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Sam tells a creepy story about something that happened with one of his old devices the other night.
Did anyone hear a train in the background?
Joe & Sam talk about social events during the pandemic and how much more we appreciate seeing each other.
Joe brings up live desktop with Addigy.
Stay tuned to an upcoming episode where we welcome back the CEO of Addigy, Jason Dettbarn.
Joe’s Tip: du -sh command to display disk usage statistics.
The group talks about the large amount of spam calls they’ve been getting.
Joe discovered that the spam callers have actually been using real people’s numbers. They wonder how the callers have been doing this.
Joe has time on his hands to talk to spam callers.
Sam discusses one of the weird issues he’s had with his replacement iPhone that he can’t really figure out. And Joe could be on to something with a SIM card issue.
408: The Mystery System
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Sam talks about how efficient the MFA set up on 1Password is.
When clients are prepared with their 1Password vault it makes it a lot easier for the group to do their jobs.
Creating a vault with client data can be very helpful.
Does anyone create separate vaults for each of their clients?
1Password is huge for teams, however, setting it up isn’t always worth it if it’s just for one person.
Joe talks about the new, app-less 1Password extension.
Sam shares information from a recent article that came out about chrome data-harvesting.
Joe shares a story about a client who had a scary problem with the Nest security system because they didn’t migrate their account when Google bought out Nest. They refused to return her money when they weren’t providing the monitoring services she was paying for.
Lately companies have seemed a little lax when it comes to their clients threatening to cancel their service.
Sam is very hesitant to recommend Kitcast because of an issue he had with the customer service. They actually discovered they had a problem with how they deploy their app but they seem to be very slow on fixing it.
Joe asks Sam about his billing and MSP that they had talked about 6 months ago and the two of them discuss how they bill their clients.
Sam talks about an “uncouth” interaction he had with a rude client.
Joe explains how he used Omni Disk Sweeper to help discover what was causing a weird problem for one of his clients.
What is the mystery “System” that often contains a lot of data that seems to be non-removable?
