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so password security i mean we all know that password abcd or 69 all day are

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really terrible passwords we know that you shouldn't reuse passwords across

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multiple sites we know that you shouldn't write down your password yet

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many people do these things every day today we'll discuss the ramifications of

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bad password habits and give you some best practices to incorporate into your

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personal security routine and on the subject of privacy give the like button

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a click if you'd like to see a video on the best ways to hide your important

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pictures and video that you like to look at by yourself at night or with friends

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i don't judge

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setup click the link in the video description to learn more

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so i don't want to fear monger but i do want to open with a few realistic

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scenarios that could occur if your passwords were broken into or leaked or

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whatever even ignoring the obviously horrible stuff like what if someone had

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access to your online banking account strap in it's about to get a little

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freaky first off facebook or something like facebook maybe it doesn't seem like

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that big of a deal sure i mean maybe they'll see that you're the admin of the

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combined fan groups of both narwhals and five gallon buckets but nothing can

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really go wrong here right wrong not only can they glean more

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information very easily like your phone number but they can also change your

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privacy settings opening up your account to the world doesn't sound that bad okay

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let's take it up a notch the intruder could glean information from your

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friends either by just having closer access to their pages or by using social

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engineering practices like simply asking them things so effectively your own

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failures can compromise the privacy of your friends and family not cool and

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that's ignoring that an especially malicious attacker could ruin

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friendships or people's perception of you by posting things on your wall that

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are highly inappropriate or asking things of people that wouldn't be

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appropriate so now let's do scenario number two losing your email this is

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actually one of the worst things that can happen not because someone might

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read the love letter you wrote in high school but because your email is usually

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used as a password and even username recovery mechanism for your other

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accounts poor email security is basically like handing an intruder the

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master key to your online identity which brings into play another aspect identity

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theft by having access to a few of your accounts especially your email it can

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actually be pretty damn easy to steal someone else's identity once that

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happens registering new credit cards getting healthcare on their dime or your

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dime or even registering their bridge or highway tolls under your name or their

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name is relatively all easily possible so we

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all agree that password security is important and yes some things are

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somewhat out of your hands like website security and whatnot but what can you do

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to help protect your own accounts well you can protect against hacking attempts

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with some fairly simple things never store them in plain text on your

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computers never write them down never use your real name username birthday

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phone number or any other easily identifiable information in your

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password never use an easy keyboard combination like abcd qwerty or qazed

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and there are some other good tips too be careful with the answers to security

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questions if you don't feel like any of them are strong enough use an unrelated

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answer that you know you can remember and if you have to send your password to

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someone for some probably terrible reason in plain text online try

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splitting it up across a few different mediums never reuse a password but

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especially for your email many people are guilty of using passwords including

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myself in the past but please at the very least use the unique and strong

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password for your email and finally use

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two-factor authentication wherever possible you can learn more about it

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here but basically with two-factor authentication you can have security

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code sent to your mobile device or email in order to double check that it's

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actually you trying to log in this can really help against things like key

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loggers skimming your passwords as these codes are one-time use i would highly

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recommend two-factor authentication even if you ignore all of my other

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suggestions that i've made please listen to this one

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moving on now to create a good password is actually rather simple and if you'd

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like to see a great infographic on it look up xkcd password strength in that

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infographic it has stated that and i quote through 20 years of effort we've

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successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to

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remember but easy for computers to guess end quote

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i completely and wholeheartedly agree with this stop using short but insanely

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complicated passwords and start using long and more simple ones that you can

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actually remember this will help you to not write them down or store them

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somewhere and makes them actually a lot harder to break a trick i use is

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describing something in my environment for instance this is a long skinny white

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tube but that happens to have tape on it so i could make my password long skinny

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white tube tape and it would actually be a pretty secure as long as i don't break

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any of the other rules as well but this really isn't enough there's still a huge

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amount of unique and long passwords to remember so you might be inclined to

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tell your browser to remember your password for a certain website don't do

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that chrome's passwords are encrypted based on your Windows login password the

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security of which is iffy at best

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considering there's a few ways to decipher them quite easily and firefox's

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passwords are normally very easily accessible unless you set your own

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master password which for whatever reason it doesn't prompt you to do at

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this time so how do you remember them all well i would recommend using a

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third-party password manager for cloud-based options you have lastpass

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dashlane and one password amongst others and for local storage options you have

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keepass roboform and password safe again

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amongst others there are positives and negatives to each of these solutions but

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that may be for another video at another time a different route than these would

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be if you would like to use truekey from Intel a new password security system

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based around using your fingerprint or your facial recognition

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as encryption utilities again there's positives and negatives to that as well

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and the last but not least option is a physical security key like yubikey from

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yubico this is a token that's trusted by everyone from google to facebook to the

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freaking united states department of defense and that can provide an

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additional factor of authentication against anything from your Windows login

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to your email to your password manager itself so you'll never really have to

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worry about some jackass intruders netflix suggestions and ratings invading

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