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I’ve been called “process oriented” more than once in my life. I don’t mind. People take systems for granted, but their structure provides a sense of safety and security. Until they don’t.

I feel a lot people missed the point last month, when news circulated about 2.5 billion Google users potentially at risk following a data leak. Everyone immediately jumped to the idea that passwords needed to be changed—not a bad instinct, as we ended up discussing on The Full Nerd this week.

But as that very

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