250: The Arbiters of Authentication

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🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week we put our security expert* hats back on to talk about the latest hotness in login technology, passkeys. Find out how passkeys work, how they enable you to login without a password, which major platforms are supporting them, and where and how you should manage them. We also do a quick update on more traditional time-based authenticator apps, including the recent Authy data breach, and then -- whaddaya know, it's our 250th episode! -- we also reflect a little on a momentous five years of doing this podcast. *not actual security experts Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Have you ever thought about, you know, what happened to the turbo button?
0:04.6	Not especially recently, no.
0:06.4	I mean, I'm not running a 4.m.
0:07.6	Point something megahertz computer anymore, but go on.
0:10.3	So we, we were talking about this on the full nerd a couple of weeks ago.
0:14.6	And I realized I never had a computer with a turbo button.
0:18.4	Mine were always full speed.
0:24.6	And then we went and did some research, you know, did our own research, as it were.
0:35.6	And we learned that the turbo button for most PC users was actually, the turbo speed was actually the native speed of the processor.
0:36.1	Right.
0:40.8	And then when you turned off turbo mode, it slowed it down to like 8086 speed.
0:42.2	Which is the, what is it? 4.77 megahertz?
0:44.2	It was slow.
0:45.1	Yeah.
0:45.3	It was a lot.
0:45.7	It's like you like take a 35 megahertz, 386 and crank it all the way down to four
0:52.1	megahertz or six meghertz or something.
0:53.9	Yeah, 4.77 in fact.
0:55.8	But I'm going to,
0:56.3	but the,
0:56.5	but the thing I've been thinking about it,
0:58.0	I can't stop thinking about it,
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