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The Radio That Didn't Kill Eli Cohen
Episode 5254
Eli Cohen transmitted Morse from Damascus every morning at 8:30. The official story says Syrian direction-finding triangulated his signal and got him…
4 weeks ago
Zeroization: Wiping Keys, Not Data
Episode 5253
Zeroization isn't deleting files or formatting a drive — it's the deliberate, irreversible destruction of key material, leaving ciphertext computatio…
4 weeks ago
Paper in a Safe: The Most Rugged Key Backup
Episode 5252
Daniel's follow-up to the sovereignty episode digs into the part nobody wants to think about: keeping an encryption key alive when it can never touch…
4 weeks ago
Recovering the Moon That's Already in the Pixels
Episode 5251
A listener's grainy moon photo over Jerusalem raises a sharp question: is there a category of model that clarifies an image without changing it? The …
4 weeks ago
Building a Shortwave Monitoring Stack on Linux
Episode 5250
Daniel wants to build an automated shortwave monitoring station: an affordable SDR, a Linux server, frequency scanning, and automatic uploads to a sh…
4 weeks ago
What Makes a Network Truly Sovereign?
Episode 5249
A high-frequency antenna on a British consulate roof is a literal sovereign communications link: state-owned radios, state-held keys, treaty-protecte…
4 weeks ago
Why HF Radio Beats Fiber When Governments Pull the Plug
Episode 5248
When a government can switch off cellular and fiber, what's left? HF radio, bouncing signals off an ionosphere nobody owns. This episode digs into Da…
4 weeks ago
Why HF Radio Still Matters When Networks Fail
Episode 5247
When a host nation turns hostile and cellular and internet go dark, why does an antenna on a consulate roof still matter? This episode unpacks HF rad…
4 weeks ago
Why Adult ADHD Support Skips the Physical Layer
Episode 5246
When an adult with ADHD struggles to function, the default pathway leads to therapy, executive function coaching, or a medication adjustment. But wha…
4 weeks ago
Training a Model on 100 Phone Photos
Episode 5245
Daniel wants to catalog his small-parts drawer — screws, bolts, standoffs — by training a model on about a hundred phone photos. That raises two ques…
4 weeks ago