Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte
Steve explains the theory and practice of multifactor authentication which uses combinations of “something you know,” “something you have,” and “something you are” to provide stronger remote authentication than traditional, unreliable single-factor username and password authentication.
For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.
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Geoff Smith of TheGeoffSmith.com wrote a song to commemorate this moment in Digg history.
Here’s the third installment of 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity (see Volume 1 and Volume 2).
These are a bit sillier and less politically correct than the first two volumes — I had to stretch to come up with more ideas – but many are still valid in certain situations. Just be sure to take them with a grain [...]
With a little bit of torturing, and some fun on the way, find out how fast your hard disk drive really is.
A pocket-sized device that runs on two AA batteries and copies DNA as accurately as expensive lab equipment has been developed by researchers in the US.The device has no moving parts and costs just $10 to make. It runs polymerase chain reactions (PCRs), to generate billions of identical copies of a DNA strand, in as little as 20 minutes.
