Posted on August 13, 2008 by Jonathan Hensley
Olympics Insider, Password Security
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
- Behind NBC’s Olympics Website
Four years ago there was just a few dozen hours of video up on the site. Thousands of machines are needed to encode and serve the video and the site. Interesting conversation, hope you enjoy a little look behind one of the people who worked behind the scenes for months on this site. - 6 Reasons Today’s Olympic Swimmers are Breaking so many World Records
For some reason every swim event in this Olympics is a record smasher. And it isn’t just Michael Phelps who’s seconds ahead of that daunting green world record line. Curious what’s making this year’s athletes so much faster? Here are 6 possible answers. - Moving Beyond Passwords For Security
The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords — and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on. Instead, machines have a cryptographically encoded conversation to establish both partie