Podcast Episodes

Crash 8.5 million computers with this one weird trick: A CrowdStrike story

This week we're discussing the 2024 incident in which a malformed update of CrowdStrike Falcon caused 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows…

1 year, 5 months ago

Counting every vote: Technology and voter data in Latin American elections

This week we're speaking to Eduardo from Transparencia Electoral about modern elections all over the world that they've observed, and Vladimir from R…

1 year, 6 months ago

Vertical Mergers: Competition, Connectivity, and Starlink

This week we're talking to Peter Bloom from Rhizomatica and Lũa Cruz from IDEC about internet connectivity, what drives social media companies to exp…

1 year, 7 months ago

The End of Privacy in Public: Facial Recognition and the UK Parliament

This week we're talking about facial recognition in the UK. Our research shows that members of parliament (MPs) don't know as much as they should abo…

1 year, 8 months ago

Data and Disability: Rights in a Digitised world

This week we take a deep dive into the issues around the rights and privacy of the global disability community in the digital age.

We're joined by …

1 year, 9 months ago

Enter the matrix: How to run an encrypted communications platform

This week we're talking to Matthew Hodgson, one of the founders of Matrix - a network for secure, decentralised communication, and CEO/CTO of Element…

1 year, 10 months ago

The XZ exploit: The day the internet got lucky

This week we're talking about a backdoor inserted into a popular Linux file compression tool, which had the potential to massively undermine the secu…

2 years, 1 month ago

The Cryptowars: A short history of encryption politics

Welcome to the last of our short series on encryption. This week we're just talking amongst ourselves, luckily Gus is an expert on encryption - havin…

2 years, 2 months ago

A letter from the Russian government: Defending encryption in Court

This week we speak to Ioannis, a senior lawyer at PI, about his and his colleague's work on the landmark case protecting encyrption at the European C…

2 years, 4 months ago

What is Encryption? Codes, Keys, and Hashes

What do you know about cryptography? Have you ever wanted to get a better understanding of some of the maths behind encryption? This week we speak to…

2 years, 5 months ago