Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords

To think cybersecurity researchers just found out a way a Google account could be accessed without a password makes this video an ominous warning

Can someone explain why would stock market drop cause of google password sccandal?

Damn

I want to do this.

Great story! Very gripping and extremely scary as this is something I think about a lot.

...and I thought...why don't I remember such a big news like that...then I realized...

why would you scare me like that
then again who would hack me of no value

all humans are brilliant morons we forget that at our own peril,, you cannot protect yourself from yourself unless you have humility, go ahead invent a cure for cancer then walk into the half open door as you rush to tell someone of your genius,

I didn’t read the fictional

One underrated thing about this story is that the password glitch was intentional. Knowing Tom I would’ve thought that he would’ve made the source of the glitch a simple accident by a reckless executive but it is much more interesting that it was an intentional attack. This top CEO who was one of the “trusted five” who has access to Google’s code decides to let everything burn. Her manifesto is provocative and hopeful and perfect for the tone of the story.

This is obviously speculative fiction. Seriously!!!

This is obviously a sci-fi story. Seriously.

IT'S OVER 9000 HOURS AGO
Approximately 80,000 hours, by the way.

if this happened today, it would be catastrophic, some of us have our entire online lives tied to gmail

I miss these stories, they were amazing.

I often come back to his because the quote "the world doesnt get changed through a single point of failure" just stuck with me

Oh so this is what is happening now, innit? but instead of the no-password-bug, we just need to ask chat gpt how to steal a session token!

Do you sell sci-fi books? You come up with very reality-close stories that are very entertaining!

Really enjoy your speculative fiction.

A Facebook advert just popped out underneath this video

Jokes on you I was using Outlook
(good vid btw)

Why is the way Tom says “as their phones quietly erase themselves” so iconic

Yes, I have turned off history.

Wait did this actually happen to Dropbox?

Talk about cyber terrorism

Id be a burner in reverse, just wipe all my stuff

Strange! I can't find any details or articles about Maria Christensen on Google!

please go back to making these awesome sci-fi horror stories.

"In America..." (re: July 4 Independence Day)

* In the USA...

whell, there is this other search engine on the world wide web.. not that famous though..

cant we not all just get along..?

who needs a troll anyway ?

honesty ? just another reason for lying. not my major..

karma ???

may not even delete whatever.dll from microsoft. on my own machine. i feel you. like loosing your own money in your own vault because.. of.. a new vault or suchs... auwa.

history books like wikipedia articles.

thank you.

credit is where credit mr scott.

haha copyright infridgement.

one good thing about music, when its hit you feel no pain... (singing an ilkigeal copy of napster bob marley song downloaded for commercial reasons.) anybody know that song ?

this felt like hackers' wet dream

we dont forgive we dont forget expect us. did google and microsoft really needed to gave a awqy their life work, their spirit child ? by law ?

Blue jeans red shirt walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn it was like James Dean for sure you're so fresh to death i'm sick as c-cancer...

And this, is why you have 2fa.

Have always found it bizarre so many apps would shift their own security responsibilities to the user's email provider. Now so many apps rightfully use Two-Factor Authentication (TFA) and trusted device detection, but still so many don't. It should always be the app's responsibility to manage verification, and users must assume any app that doesn't have TFA, at the least, as being compromised - use with caution.