Life and Technology – Saturday August 15 2026
Life and Technology with Charlie Brown

Life and Technology – Saturday August 15 2026

B1IntermediateAugust 14, 202637 min
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Now on 2GB Sydney 3AW Melbourne 4BC Brisbane and network stations across Australia it's time for life and technology with Charlie Brown thanks to Harvey Norman. I'm Darren James around the country we go the number is 131873 that's the number to call the Tech Hotline if you like Charlie good morning

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to you. Yeah, morning, Darren. Morning, everyone. We have got a big, big piece in the newsletter today that you've got to read about and it is all about pass keys. Now, the world of security and digital security is moving from passwords and what's moved from passwords to passwords and then over the top alerts through SMS and those kinds of things, passwords

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an estimates now it's moving to pass keys now what is that for the uninitialized it is a different way of confirming you are you now it could be an app on your phone with a fingerprint that is recognized no no password involved right so you're logging in using that way could be that it's

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