Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShmooCon: Moose You Already
On January 12th, 2025, the ShmooCon hacker conference held it’s 20th and final gathering. I was lucky enough to be able to not only attend the final …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Rogue 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 …
7 months 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. S…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 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 priva…
7 months, 3 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…
8 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 s…
8 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 everyt…
8 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 (…
8 months, 3 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 o…
8 months, 4 weeks ago