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Privacy and activism with Chris Weiland
Episode 277
Josh and Kurt talk to Chris Weiland from Restore the Fourth Minnesota. Restore The Fourth Minnesota is nonprofit dedicated to restoring the Fourth Am…
5 years ago
Security, behavior, and the environment
Episode 276
Josh and Kurt talk about how our environment affects our behavior, and in turn our level of security. We often ignore what's happening around us when…
5 years ago
What in the @#$% is going on with ransomware?
Episode 275
Josh and Kurt talk about why it seems like the world of ransomware has gotten out of control in the last few weeks. Every day there's some new and mo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Mr. Amazon's Neighborhood
Episode 274
Josh and Kurt talk about Amazon sidewalk. There is a lot of attention, but how is this any different than the surveillance networks Apple and Google …
5 years, 1 month ago
Can we stop the coming artificial unintelligence deluge?
Episode 273
Josh and Kurt talk about AI driven comments. We live in a world of massive confusion and disruption where what is true and false, real and fake, are …
5 years, 1 month ago
The Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order
Episode 272
Josh and Kurt talk about the Biden Administration new cybersecurity executive order. There are some good ideas in there, but at the end of the day it…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pipeline security: There is no problem humans can't make worse
Episode 271
Josh and Kurt talk about how people handle problems. We open with the story of the Colonial Pipeline hack, but then go into some of the ways people t…
5 years, 1 month ago
Hello dark patterns my old friend
Episode 270
Josh and Kurt talk about dark patterns. A dark pattern is when a service tries to confuse a user into doing something they don't want to, like unknow…
5 years, 2 months ago
Do not experiment on the Linux Kernel
Episode 269
Josh and Kurt talk about the University of Minnesota experimenting on the Linux Kernel. There's a lot to unpack in this one, but the TL;DR is you pro…
5 years, 2 months ago
Can we trust any 3rd parties?
Episode 268
Josh and Kurt talk about what 3rd party means in the current world. From 5G suppliers, to the Codecov and Solarwinds breaches. Is there anyone we can…
5 years, 2 months ago