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Sep 11, 2026
Andrew ZiglerHOST
So it's honestly, it's the purest form of science.
Andrew ZiglerHOST
We've all seen that XKCD comic where, you know, there are all the different science and STEM disciplines are arguing about how pure they are.
Andrew ZiglerHOST
Then math is all the way over at the end.
Andrew ZiglerHOST
That's what the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize and all of this stuff is really getting the heart out, is how AI is really coming to take away that That like pure element of STEM that humans up until now were championing.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Passphrases, correct horse battery staple, that sort of thing, are great.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Uh, the actual meaning behind correct horse battery staple can be found on XKCD.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But passphrases, a series of words with a capital and a special character between them, are fabulous if you need something that you can type on other systems that you don't have access to a password manager on.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But yeah, please try to use randomly generated passwords, because they are significantly more secure than, uh, just words that you have thought up while staring out of the window going, "Huh, blue sky.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Passphrases, correct horse battery staple, that sort of thing, are great.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Uh, the actual meaning behind correct horse battery staple can be found on XKCD.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But passphrases, a series of words with a capital and a special character between them are fabulous if you need something that you can type on other systems that you don't have access to a password manager on.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But yeah, please try to use randomly generated passwords, because they are significantly more secure than, uh, just words that you have thought up while staring out of the window going, "Huh, blue sky, sunshine.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Passphrases, correct horse battery staple, that sort of thing are great.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
The actual meaning behind Cracktor's battery staple can be found in XKCD, but passphrases, a series of words with a capital and a special character between them are fabulous if you need something that you can type on other systems that you don't have access to a password manager on.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But yeah, please try to use randomly generated passwords because they are significantly more secure than just words that you have thought up while staring out at the window going, huh, blue sky.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Sunshine.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Passphrases, correct horse battery staple, that sort of thing are great.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
The actual meaning behind Cracktor's battery staple can be found in XKCD, but passphrases, a series of words with a capital and a special character between them are fabulous if you need something that you can type on other systems that you don't have access to a password manager on.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But yeah, please try to use randomly generated passwords because they are significantly more secure than just words that you have thought up while staring out at the window going, huh, blue sky.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Sunshine.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Passphrases, correct horse battery staple, that sort of thing are great.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Uh, The actual meaning behind Cracktor's battery staple can be found in XKCD, but passphrases, a series of words with a capital and a special character between them are fabulous if you need something that you can type on other systems that you don't have access to a password manager on.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
But yeah, please try to use randomly generated passwords because they are significantly more secure than just words that you have thought up while staring out of the window going, huh, blue sky.
Rosemary OrchardHOST
Sunshine.
Robby WinchesterGUEST
Pe- um, someone might fall for it, but it's gonna probably raise the flags." And lo and behold, it, you know, it still happens.
Robby WinchesterGUEST
It's, it's that difference of the, one of my favorite, the XKCD comics of, uh, the, the cryptographer's dream of you have, like, the, you know, 2096 AES encryption, like, "Oh my gosh, we'll never crack their password," and then the reality is like, "Here's a wrench that's $5.
Robby WinchesterGUEST
Go hit him until he tells you the password."
James WilsonPANELIST
[laughs]
Leo LaporteHOST
And now back to security now, and it's time for the Picture of the Week.
Steve GibsonHOST
So this is an XKCD, one of our favorite guys.
Steve GibsonHOST
And I didn't give this a title because he had, and it was perfect.
Steve GibsonHOST
The title of this series of cartoons is why Asimov, of course, Isaac Asimov, the famous sci-fi author, put the three laws of robotics in the order he did.
Alaina YeeHOST
So I could see them saying, oh, we are going to be the champions of open source version of this.
Alaina YeeHOST
And then it's like that XKCD comic, right, where it's just like there are 14 competing standards and people get together.
Alaina YeeHOST
We should have one.
Alaina YeeHOST
There are 15 competing standards.
Leo LaporteHOST
And now back to Security Now!, and it's time for the picture of the week.
Steve GibsonHOST
So this is an XKCD-
Leo LaporteHOST
Love XKCD
Steve GibsonHOST
... one of our favorite guys.
Steve GibsonHOST
Um-
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