Hi All,
As promised here is a rough transcript of Inner Circle Episode 2 You can press play on the video here, then scroll down and read along:
Also don’t foreget you can turn on Subtitles, hover ove the video after you press play and click the “CC” button.
I’m afraid we can’t promise to do these transcripts in the future. I’ve had a read of it and I haven’t done a good enough job of it, sorry. We are working on getting the sound fixed for next time.
Again I’m really sorry about this.
I’ve split it up into the various subjects we talk about.
I’m really sorry this is so rough and ready (much like the actual video) 🙂 but it gives the general gist. Transcript ish, below.
Mike
You might want to watch along, press play above, as you read along:
Welcome
- Thank you so much for watching and the lovely comments from last week
- We are not aiming for slick like BBC, recorded at Mike’s Desk, warehouse things in the background
- We are going to talk about passwords, keeping everything online secure and safe
What the heck is a password and what are they used for
- T: whats the point of a password?
- M: we all use them all the time for lots of things, I have 100s of accounts,
- M: it identifies you when you log in, for example, you need an email address and password and systems know it’s you because you have the password.
- T: a way to prove it’s you and not someone pretending to be yours
A secure password
- T: one of the problems is remembering accounts, is it OK to have the same password?
- M: No, it’s a bad thing to do because if someone gets hold of your password they can get into your whole life online, you should have every account different.
- M: You shouldn’t just change 1 bit of the password because lots of companies have lost ‘plain text’ passwords
- Plain text means you can read the password
- T: They should not be a pattern to your passwords (for example including the company name in the password and then the same stuff for example  helpfulbooksPassword123 pcworldPassword123 is bad)
- T: how do you make a password secure so it’s hard to guess
- M: You should be aiming for over 9 characters in length and include mix upper, lower case, numbers and special characters !”ÂŁ$%^&*(:@~}{
- T: not ‘cat’
- M: The more variation on the type of characters the better and longer the better
- T: It’s difficult because each company has different password rules, some don’t allow special characters
- T: Inner Circle password is weak because we have a shared password and don’t store anything sensitive on there like bank details or display email addresses. Don’t follow our lead on this.
- T: You choose a password, but it only asks for 3 characters from the password like 2nd 3rd and 5th, why is this better and where it’s used?
- M: it’s used by banking/financial systems and it’s used usually with another type of password, this is to try and stop key-loggers from working as if you are only typing in a couple of characters then they can’t know the whole password. Keyloggers track what you type into your keyboard.
- T: Sometimes they get you to choose it from a drop-down list as this stops keyloggers too adding a little bit of security
Password managers and writing passwords down – storing passwords
- T: We are talking about making the password Strong and Secure, but it can be hard to remember, you can come up with a sentence to remember for example “I must remember to watch Mike and Tim’s video”
- T: So the password becomes “Imr2wM&Tv” when you replace some of the characters
- M: I would add some type of ! or . to the end of this 🙂
- T: I know you’re a fan of PAssword Managers Mike?
- M: Can we write passwords down?
- T: Can we write passwords down?
- M: Yes, write it down and keep it safe, very safe
- T: It’s much better to write it down and have a strong password
- M: I totally agree 🙂
- T: Back to Password Managers, an alternative to writing down
- M: The password is stored on your computer.
- T: if someone takes your computer can they use all your passwords?
- M: Nope, they are stored in a super-encrypted ‘vault’ on your PC and you can only use it when you have the 1 master password, which should be strong and you should write down, again keep it safe.
- M: The way a password manager works is each time you log into a new website it asks if you want to save the password and you click yes and it
- M: what way I don’t have to remember lots of passwords,
- T: at least there is only 1 strong password to remember. It’s a little tricky to set up, but worth it if you have lots of passwords, but worth it.
- M: totally worth it, but the setup is tricky, link to LastPass guide here
- T: You can have 100 character long passwords you don’t need to remember
Extra security, banks, drop down selection of passwords and security questions
- T: We started by saying the password is a way to know it’s you, but some banks have a widget you type a number into and it generates a number each time you type one in.
- M: so it’s a one-time code? If we generated one now and showed it they couldn’t get in?
- T: It’s just a 1 time use code so that would be fine, but we won’t.
- T: Another thing is security questions, for example, “What was the name of your first cat”. How useful are these?
- M: Not good as a security measure as lots of answers can be found for example “Whats your mothers maiden name”
- T: Facebook quizzes? They often ask similar questions?
- M: Yep it’s a nightmare.
- M: This is why I lie on them, for example, “Whats your mother’s maiden name” I might say “fjkdfjkdfkj2234398fdi5opala” at random and keep this saved in LastPass, but you could write it down
- T: it might be good to just lie even if you don’t want this, for example, answer “Jackson” even if it isn’t.
- M: And again, keep it different across different websites, Adobe lost Millions of password hints which were things like “My favourite colour” which then means guessing their password was easy, how many colours are there in the world “green”, “red”, “orange” but if you lie and had the hint as “What’s my favourite colour” but the password being anything other than a colour would be much more secure.
2-factor login – getting even more secure
- T: Ok, this is getting a bit more tricky, can we talk about 2-factor login?
- M: Errrmm I will do my best.
- M: This generates a 1-time code as you login, which means if someone gets your username and password, then they still can’t log in as you because they also need to generate a 1-time code which might be sent by a text to your phone, or ring a landline, or popup a message on your phone or generated on your phone.
- M: It’s a really good thing to have set up if a website will let you, for example, Gmail, Google and Yahoo! all have the ability to login
- M: Is it a pain every time you log in having to do this? Nope you can ask the site to remember you so you only get the 1-time code prompt once
- T: Yes I use one that asks for a 1-time code every 14 days
- M: yep, I would totally recommend you turn this on
Thank you and coming up next time
- T: Thank you
- M: Thank you,
- T: Hopefully we have made it better than the first one? Next time we are going to talk about Amazon Echo, Alexa, and OK Google all these Virtual Assistants you may have heard about in the news?
- M: are you going to order us one of each to try?
- T: errmmm I don’t think I want them listening to us.
- T: Thank you
January 27, 2018 at 1:06 pm
Hello Jess,
I contacted Apple support who helped me.
The problem was I had too many messages 48 in all. Once I had managed to delete these the choice to save or send the video came up.
Thank you for your help. I will still need to know how to download from iCloud. Cannot find it yet on Tim’s site.
Regards
January 28, 2018 at 1:04 pm
Hi Daphne,
That’s great, I’m glad you managed to sort it all out!
Everything that’s stored on your phone is stored on iCloud so you shouldn’t need to download anything from iCloud as it’ll automatically be on your iPhone.
I hope this helps,
Thanks
Jess
January 25, 2018 at 3:34 pm
Hello Jess,
I checked through everything you said but could not find it in my photos app. Maybe it is stored in the cloud but did not know how to find it there?
Sorry if I seem a bit dim but I will have to check out Tim’s section on cloud storage.
Daphne
January 25, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Hi Daphne,
Not a problem, have a read through about cloud storage and get back to me if you have any further questions.
Thanks
Jess
January 25, 2018 at 9:04 am
Hi Mike, thanks for your reply but unfortunately it did not work. I have tried to send it to my email address but am not able to send it to myself! This video is part of a long list of messages from a friend that I want to delete except for the video.
Regards, Daphne
January 25, 2018 at 11:06 am
Hi Daphne,
Jess here, I’m helping out Mike today.
By default, all videos and photos that are sent through WhatsApp should automatically be saved to your phones photo’s app. They are usually put into a new folder named WhatsApp Photos or WhatsApp Videos. If you open WhatsApp and tap on the Settings icon at the bottom of the screen. Then tap on Data and Storage Usage it should give you a list of the different media types (photos, documents, videos etc.) Next to each of those it’ll either say “Wi-fi” or “Cellular” or “Never”. If you tap on a media type you can change these settings so that the media type gets downloaded whilst your using wi-fi, cellular (mobile data) or never. If they all say wi-fi or cellular then the video will be stored in your photos app, you might have to scroll through to find the day it was sent.
I hope this helps,
Thanks
Jess
January 24, 2018 at 10:17 am
Hi Mike,
I need to download a video from WhatsApp. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Daphne
January 24, 2018 at 2:28 pm
Hello, it should be possible to do this, find the video and tap and hold on it and a menu should popup with the option to save the video, tap on save and it should copy it to your local device.
Let me know if that doesn’t work for you and we can try something else.
Thanks
Mike 🙂
November 6, 2017 at 4:21 pm
Yes,thank you.
I have just embarked on reading facebook 1 and 2,and it will take me a while before I can feed anything back.
November 7, 2017 at 3:54 pm
No worries at all, do let us know if there is anything we can help with. Thank you 🙂
November 3, 2017 at 11:07 am
I have just read the transcript dated 24 October. I am pretty deaf and even with a hearing aid it is a struggle to hear the video sound. So transcripts and/ or subtitles are a very good thing–to a tiny minority of us and therefore costly.
If/when expertise and demand grow–involve one of the semi-charitable organisations for the deaf,such as Hearing Link.
November 6, 2017 at 1:28 pm
Hi George,
Thank you so much for the feedback. I’ll do my best to do a transcript, the reason I can’t promise is that I’m not too sure how helpful it actually is? I think maybe a couple of articles might work better but I will keep experimenting and see how we get on. Please do keep leaving feedback and we will do our best to improve as we go.
There should be Subtitles on the video (YouTube calls them Closed Captions) and you can turn that on by hovering over the video as it’s playing.
WAs this transcript helpful to you?
Thank you
Mike 🙂