Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPrivacy in a Box (Part 2)
In the second half of my interview with Winston Privacy CEO Richard Stokes, we talk about why your data is so valuable to advertisers and what you ca…
6 years, 5 months ago
Privacy in a Box (Part 1)
Protecting your privacy today is hard. It’s really hard. It’s too hard. Every ‘smart’ device you own is tattling on you, constantly, to dozens of com…
6 years, 6 months ago
Big Brother 2.0
The US government is once again looking to break or hobble encrypted communications in the name of national security and law enforcement. They claim …
6 years, 6 months ago
Set Warp Factor 1.1.1.1
Why do most VPN apps suck so badly? How do you know which VPN service providers you can trust with your privacy? How is it that our internet service …
6 years, 6 months ago
The Internet of Junk
How many of your “smart” devices are smart enough to update their own software? For that matter, how many of them can upgrade at all? It’s a good bet…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Rise of Stalkerware
In today’s show I have a sobering discussion with the EFF’s Eva Galperin about the rise of stalkerware (sometimes called “spouseware”). It’s become a…
6 years, 7 months ago
A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome vs Firefox
Google Chrome is the most popular web browser on the planet by far, used by about two thirds of all web surfers. But Google is an advertising company…
6 years, 7 months ago
Polling on Privacy (Pt2)
Is it possible to hide your tracks online? Is it even worth the effort to try? How do you know which companies, products and services you can trust? …
6 years, 7 months ago
Polling on Privacy (Pt1)
In January of this year, Malwarebytes (a world-class antivirus software maker) conducted a massive poll on privacy that included 4000 people from 66 …
6 years, 7 months ago
Google Knows What You Buy
It shouldn’t surprise you to learn that Google can read your Gmail. You may even realize that Google is scanning your emails for things like trip iti…
6 years, 8 months ago