Podcast Episodes

Android 16's Dark Side Threatens Every Custom ROM

Episode 229

Episode 229: Android 16 is out but will make life harder for custom ROMs, passkey portability is in the works, a dating app based on your search history, and more!

Welcome to the Surveillance Report -…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

How Companies Sidestep Protections to Spy on You

Episode 228

Episode 228: Meta & Yandex skirt around Android's sandboxing to violate your privacy even further, Apple turned over thousands of push notification data requests, billions of session cookies are for …

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Q&A: Is RethinkDNS Any Good?

Q&A227: Is RethinkDNS a good tool for easy traffic analysis? What are our thoughts on governmenet SSO services, like Australia's MyGov? What resources do we use to threat model? Do companies still se…

Published on 4 months ago

Your Comments May Reveal More Than You Think...

Episode 227

Episode 227: Your comments might reveal more than you think, LexisNexis (of all companies) had a data breach, some spicy political news, and more!

Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlo…

Published on 4 months ago

Google's Latest Attack on FOSS

Episode 226

Episode 226: Google threatens FOSS by way of restricting Nextcloud, Mozilla actually appears to be focusing on Firefox again, New Orleans cranks the dystopia up to 11, and more!

Welcome to the Surveil…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Q&A: Cardinal Rules of Privacy

Q&A225: Are there any things in privacy where you can't ease in or make mistakes? How can a typical person do traffic analysis on phones? How do we address printer privacy concerns? Is it safer to op…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Privacy Coins At Risk in Europe!

Episode 225

Episode 225: The EU intends to ban all privacy-coins and non-KYC wallets, education giant Pearson had a data breach, Peertube App v1 is out, and more!

Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Te…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Q&A: Can Privacy Make You Easier to Track?

Q&A224: Can tracker blocking and other privacy techniques make you stand out more? Has Wayland fixed any of X's security shortcomings? Why don't people talk about the risks of CDNs more? Is there any…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

India is Trying to Block ProtonMail!

Episode 224

Episode 224: An Indian court has ordered a block of ProtonMail, Google Wallet is adding private age verification tech, millions of Apple Airplay devices are risk, a new private metasearch engine (fre…

Published on 5 months ago

Q&A: Do We Self-Host?

Q&A223: Do we self-host anything? What impact does cybercrime have on privacy in the public perception? Do PWAs put your other browsing at risk? VMs vs containers, Acrobat alternatives with OCR, and …

Published on 5 months ago