Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRogue AI?
Artificial Intelligence is taking over. But I don't mean that in a Skynet kinda way. It's simply becoming ubiquitous because companies are insisting on inserting the technology into all their product…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Dialog with the Data Diva
Debbie Reynolds (aka, The Data Diva) has been working in the privacy realm for many years, as a privacy consultant, speaker, advisor and podcaster. She and I have been running in the same circles on …
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Life in the Panopticon
Tracking our faces and whereabouts is getting out of control. It's a mass surveillance infrastructure that keeps growing in Borg-like fashion. Facial recognition and license plate readers are prolife…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dividing Trust
VPNs were not invented for privacy, despite the name - they were invented for security. Nevertheless, in recent years, they have been touted as privacy tools to thwart rampant and fanatical data gath…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Slay Message Snoopers
There are way too many messenger apps today. It's a sad state of affairs and I don't see it getting better anytime soon. But the real problem (for me) is that almost all of the popular messenger apps…
Published on 3 months ago
Shelter from the Storm
Almost exactly two years ago, "Five Eyes" intelligence agencies discovered a successful and ongoing cyber attack on critical US infrastructure by a state-sponsored actor based in China. This group, a…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Disable Your MAID
As we learned last week from Zach Edwards, our smartphones have a globally unique mobile ad ID, or MAID, that is automatically associated with everything we do on our phones... unless we take explici…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Riding the Data Gravy Train
Data brokers are out of control. While we think of them gathering data in order to target us with ads, they can actually use the targeted ad system (real-time bidding) to collect vast quantities of p…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Travel Insecurity
Going through border security today - even just returning to your own country - is not at simple and stress-free as it should be. The likelihood of our digital devices being searched by a border agen…
Published on 4 months ago
Life on the Blue Team
It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, even with cybersecurity. But defending a business, of any size, against cyber threats today is hard. Like, really hard. Defenders have to succeed every s…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago