Password day, planes powered by fuel from garbage, a design for commercial space flight, looking back in time at websites past, a new bitcoin-based cologne, and a live video feed from space.
Special Geek Guest Sharad Mangalick, Digital Imaging Product Manager at Adobe, speaks about Camera Raw and the recently-released Adobe Lightroom Mobile.
“90% of all passwords are vulnerable — it takes 5 minutes to go from hackable to uncrackable”
For more than a decade, the virtues of strong passwords have been lost on most end users, despite frequent sermons from security experts and IT administrators over their importance in locking down accounts. Now, a consultant is proposing a system that provides rewards or penalties based on the passcode choices people make.
For instance, a user who picks “test123@#” might be required to change the password in three days under the system proposed by Lance James, the head of the cyber intelligence group at Deloitte & Touche. The three-day limit is based on calculations showing it would take about 4.5 days to find the password using offline cracking techniques. Had the same user chosen “t3st123@##$x” (all passwords in this post don’t include the beginning and ending quotation marks), the system wouldn’t require a change for three months.
In a few years, your flight from London to New York may be powered by trash. A new production plant—ironically located in a former oil refinery outside of London—will be cranking out a renewable fuel made from waste that otherwise would end up in the city
The aerospace giant on Wednesday (April 30) unveiled its new concept for the cabin of a future commercial spaceliner
The Internet Archive today announced a massive milestone for its Wayback Machine: 400 billion indexed webpages. The data encompasses the Web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago.
To celebrate the milestone, the Internet Archive has provided a list of The Wayback Machine highlights over the years.
“It is a universally acknowledged fact that a single man in possession of a Bitcoin fortune must be in want of Bitcoin-branded luxury products on which to blow his semi-pretend Internet money.”
After being continuously inhabited for more than 13 years, it is finally possible to log into Ustream and watch the Earth spinning on its axis in glorious HD. This video feed (embedded below) comes from from four high-definition cameras, delivered by last month
Bob, from Salinas called in to ask how to remove the dots when scanning printed material from news papers and magazines.
Sharad Mangalick was last on GeekSpeak in August of 2013 .
