#ThisWeekinNET — Episode 67

02:28 The problem of password reuse

05:33 Password hygiene; password tools, multi-factor authentication

07:05 Leaked password notification

09:00 Two-factor authentication numbers

11:10 The process of finding leaked passwords and share it

14:43 What's coming in the password realm. Secure by design pledge

16:16 Easy to use security. Plug and be secure

20:40 Threats and opportunities in 2024. A "no password needed" future (biometrics)

24:45 Mickie Betz about generated captions in our Stream video product

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In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for video.

Host João Tomé is joined by Garrett Galow, Director of Product at Cloudflare, to discuss a recent blog post on how we help keep customers safe through leaked password notifications accessible via our dashboard. We also discuss the use of passwords in 2024, the importance of 2FA or multi-factor authentication like hardware keys, offer suggestions, and explore how passwords might become less common in the future.

Lastly, Mickie Betz, Senior Systems Engineer of our Stream video product, discusses Stream Generated Captions. With just one click, users can effortlessly generate video captions using Stream’s latest feature: AI-generated captions for on-demand videos and live stream recordings. Mickie explains how the Stream engineering team developed this feature using our own Workers AI and the Whisper model—an open-source Automatic Speech Recognition model—with just a single API call.