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How the cops buy a "God view" of your location data, with Bennett Cyphers
Season 4 Episode 8
The list of people and organizations that are hungry for your location data—collected so routinely and packaged so conveniently that it can easily re…
3 years, 5 months ago
Solving the password’s hardest problem with passkeys, featuring Anna Pobletts
Season 4 Episode 7
How many passwords do you have? If you're at all like our Lock and Code host David Ruiz, that number hovers around 200. But the important follow up q…
3 years, 6 months ago
"Brad Pitt," a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes
Season 4 Episode 6
Becky Holmes knows how to throw a romance scammer off script—simply bring up cannibalism.
In January, Holmes shared on Twitter that an account with t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Fighting censorship online, or, encryption’s latest surprise use-case, with Mallory Knodel
Season 4 Episode 5
Government threats to end-to-end encryption—the technology that secures your messages and shared photos and videos—have been around for decades, but …
3 years, 7 months ago
What is AI ”good” at (and what the heck is it, actually), with Josh Saxe
Season 4 Episode 4
In November of last year, the AI research and development lab OpenAI revealed its latest, most advanced language project: A tool called ChatGPT.
ChatG…
3 years, 7 months ago
A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how
Season 4 Episode 3
In 2020, a photo of a woman sitting on a toilet—her shorts pulled half-way down her thighs—was shared on Facebook, and it was shared by someone whose…
3 years, 8 months ago
Fighting tech’s gender gap with TracketPacer
Season 4 Episode 2
Last month, the TikTok user TracketPacer posted a video online called “Network Engineering Facts to Impress No One at Zero Parties.” TracketPacer re…
3 years, 8 months ago
Why does technology no longer excite?
Season 4 Episode 1
When did technology last excite you?
If Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is to be believed, your own excitement ended,…
3 years, 9 months ago
Chasing cryptocurrency through cyberspace, with Brian Carter
Episode 26
On June 7, 2021, the US Department of Justice announced a breakthrough: Less than one month after the oil and gas pipeline company Colonial Pipeline …
3 years, 9 months ago
Security advisories are falling short. Here’s why, with Dustin Childs
Season 3 Episode 25
Decades ago, patching was, to lean into a corny joke, a bit patchy.
In the late 90s, the Microsoft operating system (OS) Windows 98 had a supportive…
3 years, 10 months ago