[NBLUG/talk] [NBLUG/Announce] TONIGHT - Sex, Secret and God: A Brief History of Bad Passwords (Kyle Rankin)

Susan Baur susan at cdl.edu
Wed May 10 08:27:44 PDT 2017


Thanks so much for streaming this. I was bummed that I wasn't able to join the meeting, but being able to watch it this morning instead was great.

Kyle did an excellent job, as usual.

--Susan
 
> On May 9, 2017, at 7:37 PM, Allan Cecil <allan at nblug.org> wrote:
> 
> There are a few people who cannot make it tonight so I've started a live stream on my channel at http://twitch.tv/dwangoAC if you want to join remotely.  Enjoy,
> 
> A.C.
> ******
> President, North Bay Linux Users' Group
> 
> On 05/09/2017 12:07 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
>> This is a much needed topic if the discussion in the talk list is any indication.  Come one come all tonight at 7:30,
>> 
>> A.C.
>> ******
>> President, North Bay Linux Users' Group
>> 
>> On 04/18/2017 03:05 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
>>> Topic: Sex, Secret and God: A Brief History of Bad Passwords
>>> When: Tuesday May 9th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
>>> Speaker: Kyle Rankin
>>> 
>>> Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room
>>> past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations )
>>> 
>>> Description:
>>> Most of what we've been told over the years about what makes a good
>>> password has been wrong, so it's no surprise most people pick bad
>>> passwords. This talk will cover the history of password policy and password
>>> cracking starting from the days when Richard Stallman hacked the passwords
>>> forced on his MIT computer lab because he considered passwords an
>>> authoritarian method of control. Next I'll discuss the golden days of
>>> password guessing featured prominently in movies like Hackers and WarGames.
>>> 
>>> Then I'll move to the tech boom and the introduction of draconian IT
>>> policies like password rotation and password complexity and the dirty
>>> little leet-speak password secrets they led to. As we get closer to the
>>> modern day I'll discuss the "correct horse battery staple" password
>>> renaissance and more modern approaches to password cracking spawned by
>>> tools like oclhashcat and giant password databases dumps like the RockYou
>>> hack.
>>> 
>>> I'll finish up with modern attempts to fix the password auth problem such
>>> as new approaches to secure password generation in password managers or
>>> schemes such as diceware as well as cover password auth reinforcements like
>>> the different forms of 2FA (including U2F) and Facebook's new approach to
>>> "I forgot my password" workflows. By the end everyone should have plenty of
>>> ammunition to take back to their IT department and get rid of those
>>> horrible password policies.
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