Podcast Episodes

EP 246.5 Deep Dive. OverReach. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 10th., 2025

Season 5 Episode 246

Meta and Yandex covertly tracked Android users through their apps, which listened silently on local ports to intercept browsing data and link online activities to user identities, evading common priv…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Overreach. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 10th., 2025

Season 5 Episode 246

EP 246

...And in this update, the subject of overreach.  Just last week, Meta and Yandex ceased covert tracking practices on Android apps that exploited localhost communications to collect user data, …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

EP245.5 Deep Dive. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update Explodes for the Week Ending June 3rd., 2025

Season 5 Episode 245

Recent digital developments show a growing gap between technological innovation and the protections needed to safeguard privacy, autonomy, and society at large. A string of high-profile incidents sho…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update "Explodes" for the Week Ending June 3rd., 2025

Season 5 Episode 245

EP 245 In this week's update:  A trove of sensitive Russian nuclear facility documents was unintentionally published through a government procurement site, revealing critical infrastructure details, …

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

EP 244.5 The "Rain on me" Deep Dive from The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending May 27th., 2025

Season 5 Episode 244

Emerging Trends in Technology, Privacy, and Security

Recent developments are reshaping our understanding of what technology can achieve—and the risks that come with it. AI, once seen as limited in wea…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Rain on me. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending May 27th., 2025

Season 5 Episode 244

EP 244.  In this week's update:  AI is rewriting the rules of meteorology, with new models like GraphCast showing potential to accurately predict weather up to 33 days in advance—challenging a long-s…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Physical Security Checklist for High-Value Crypto Wallet Signers

Season 1 Episode 1

What physical security measures are recommended for protecting high-value wallet signers' homes?

Recommendations include implementing a high-security safe (like a TL-30 rated safe) for storing hardwar…

Published on 7 months ago

EP 243.5 Deep Dive. You found What in my What? The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending May 20th., 2025

Season 5 Episode 243

Cybersecurity Evolution:

Cybersecurity has evolved from early academic and hobbyist roots—like 1970s viruses and 1980s ransomware—to defending against today's state-sponsored attacks, data breaches, a…

Published on 7 months ago

You found What in my What? The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending May 20th., 2025

Season 5 Episode 243

EP 243. In this week's update:  
A History of Cybersecurity
From Cold War codebreakers to cloud-native firewalls, the story of cybersecurity is a decades-long arms race between innovation and intrusion…

Published on 7 months ago

EP 242.5 Deep Dive Flying with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending May 13th., 2025

The evolving digital and geopolitical landscape reveals mounting tensions between innovation, privacy, and national security. A proposed $400 million private jet gift to Donald Trump from Qatar exemp…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago