Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 46

In this edition, Jeff and Dave discuss a Facebook privacy loophole, Walmart patenting listening software, e-mail being too hard, and oh yeah, some data breaches.

For the 46th edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, we discuss a pair of posts that could be labeled “you had one job,” or “e-mail is hard,” a closed loophole in Facebook, and more. For a full list of stories, please check out the links below.

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Cracked in under a minute: (nearly) every other password

We’ve revisited our study on the crackability of real-world passwords leaked on the dark web — originally conducted two years ago. The findings are sobering: nearly every other password can be cracked in under a minute, and three out of five take less than an hour. How can we move away from insecure passwords?