Stamos, the show's guest on security, advising ordinary listeners after a run of AI-found vulnerabilities, including a major PHP bug. Just before this he told everyone to use a password manager and change reused passwords.
…a password manager. One password is one I like. There are other ones as well. So, you need to install a password manager. And now, if you've got that, you know, the name of your cat 123 was your password, then every site that you're using that on, you need to now change it and use a randomized one.
My Pebbles123 password is now explaining. Goodness gracious.
So, you got to do that. You should just be very, I think what's starting is we lived through this era where people just kind of assume things were secure. That was never true, but it kind of worked because the number of attackers that was active was right, was finite. And so, if you just kind of blissfully walk down the street through a bad neighborhood, you just got lucky over and over again. Well, the neighborhood's gone really bad. We've
gone from like, you know, a bad neighborhood in LA to like, you know, Somalia, 1990s, right? Like, it, we have, it is completely, the threat profile has completely changed of what is the likelihood something bad is going to happen to you if you are walking down the street. And so, uh, I think…
you're just going to have to, you can't really do what we call vendor risk management as a normal person of asking them lots of questions, but you can get a feel of like, is this fly-by-night forum the kind of thing I want to put my personal information in? And I think what even normal people will…
secondary thing to be as disconnected from your real identity as possible. And uh, I'd be looking out for frauds and scams, right? The number of spam is going to go way up. You're going to get way more texts and emails from people you know asking you to click something. Um, people are beginning…