What makes a good password? It should be easy to remember, and difficult to crack. According to security researcher Per Thorsheim, those two properties can reinforce each other. The key is to make a password personally significant to the user yet very long – e.g. a sentence. If I ask you to remember a random number, like 37824601, it […]
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Undiscovery [Podcast #51]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 51 for November 22nd 2012, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. Michele’s back from his European odyssey, to Belgrade and back via Brussels and Paris! Irish Rail report over 1 million sessions on their WiFi service. ParkYa launch private beta. The ultimate lazy bed! Virtual tape measure might […]