Why You Should Turn On Two Factor Authentication

Image of Dr Corbató courtesy MIT CSAIL, used with permission.

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[TomScottGo]

It's good to be back in the actual Centre for Computing History! They're still closed to the public right now for obvious reasons, but have a look in the description for a link to them and their fundraiser to help them get through the closure!

[TheFarCobra]

That truly is all we ever learn as children: Not “don’t do it” just “don’t get caught”

[theCodyReeder]

Haha! I remember that pineapple video!

[Prstne]

"Signatures can be forged" is an understatement. 99% of people who require a signature for anything have actually no idea what your signature looks like, and it's practically a formality.

[floridagrfan]

"No way to check that the President wasn't ... being coerced."

I always assumed that there was not only a "correct" code on the Biscuit, but that there was also a coercion code, basically telling the recipient that "this source is compromised, disregard further signals from this source."

[svleda]

I swear Tom Scott is just that dude who can make you smile with a random fact any time

[JonathanKayne]

The great thing about computers: they do exactly what you say.
The terrible thing about computers: they do EXACTLY what you say.

[ELVIStheDotA]

"So the moral of the story is to not do the bad thing?"
"No. The moral is to not tell people you did the bad thing."

[gschaftla]

"Computers can only do what you say, they can't do what you mean" is probably my favorite quote now.

[dliessmgg]

"computers can only do what you say, they can't do what you mean"

i wish my parents would finally learn this

[tomato]

"What I learned was 'keep your mouth shut'" - Tom Scott, telling a secret to his 2.9 million subscribers

[acoolgoose]

we are so lucky of having people like you in youtube

[player_fanatic]

This reminds me of the trope from movies, where all security uses just "one-factor" authentification. Either as a guessable password, an item that gets stolen, or a body part that got "hacked" and used as a key.
I guess so many movie plots would not work if basic 2-factor authentification was in play.

[zincer]

"Some kind of nerd who wanted to learn something for fun" is probably the same kind of person as 90% of Tom's subscribers

[sawyer-m]

You Can't change your fingerprints... I tried once




Pineapple flashbacks

[cocknballtorturer]

You know he's still mad about getting in trouble in high school...


We all have that one thing we did super long time ago that doesn't matter anymore but you still wish you didn't do it

[Jessie_Helms]

“You can’t change it... I tried once.”
Aye, I get that reference

[rilikespie]

"You can't exactly change it. I tried once."
Ah yes, the classic Tom Scott Pineapple Scrub™

[vhetti]

When you were talking about shoulder surfing passwords with your teacher, I did the exact same thing and got in trouble because guess what - I told my peers. Lesson well learnt and you literally spoke through me with that statement.

[courtneyelizabeth]

tom's mild almost unnoticeable humor makes me laugh more than those over the top humorous stories