Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
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Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
A Podcast on Computer Security & Privacy for Non-Techies
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On the Ethics of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the Big Tech buzzword of the day. Every company who wants investment (public or private) is scrambling to have an "AI...
Find Old Accounts (Part 1)
The next step in reducing our digital footprint is to identify all of our online accounts, including the long forgotten and unused ones. The easiest p...
Meet Rayhunter
We take our cell phones with us everywhere - which makes them the perfect tracking device. Just walking around with your device will give your locatio...
Going on a Data Diet
The world wide web, as we know it today, has been around for over 30 years. In that time, most of us have created many dozens, perhaps hundreds, of on...
I’m Just a (Privacy) Bill
Why don't we have meaningful privacy laws in the US? While we haven't been able to pass federal privacy legislation, many states have managed to pass...
Hacker Summer Camp 2025
It's early August, which means it's time for BSides Las Vegas and DEF CON, part of the trio of conferences that make up "hacker summer camp" (the othe...
Tariffs vs IP Law
Cory Doctorow has garnered a lot of needed attention to the decline of modern online platforms, including Google Search, Facebook and Twitter. Much of...
Physical Phone Security
We take our phones with us everywhere. And they contain, or have cloud access to, pretty much all of our personal information and online accounts. Whi...
Passport, Lawyer, Locksmith
We talk a lot about digital or online security. Today we're going to focus on physical security and the general ethos of "be prepared". There are many...
Freezing Your Mobile Account
Your cell phone number uniquely identifies you. Many companies rely on this 1-to-1 relationship to authenticate you to their systems. So if someone we...
Defending Student Privacy
Privacy risks are bad enough for adults - but it's much worse for our kids, particularly as students. Who provides notice and obtains consent for mino...
The In-App Switcheroo
Do you realize that you're not always using your chosen mobile web browser or your network privacy features? Many mobile apps have their own in-app br...
ShmooCon: 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 s...
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 o...
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. Sh...
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...
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 privac...
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)...
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 st...
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 everyth...
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 (r...
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 ou...
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. Lik...
Differential Privacy
When we collect a lot of personal data, say via the US Census, the goal is to glean important aggregate information and statistics, while somehow pres...
Microscoping Our Apps
We've been installing apps on our smartphones for almost two decades now. The iPhone and Android app stores kicked off in 2008 and we still, to this d...
It’s Tax (Scam) Time Again
Tax time is once again upon us here in the USA, which means that the tax scammers are coming out of the woodwork. Many will claim to be representing t...
All Things Secured
Josh Summers lived in China for many years and learned a lot about privacy and security. Since he left, he's made it his mission to share this knowled...
Slay Browser Ads Forever
Google's Chrome browser is rolling out changes that will hamstring ad blockers - so there's never been a better time to try a better browser. There ar...
Back to The L0pht
Today, we travel back in time and back to The L0pht with one of the original founders of L0pht Heavy Industries, Weld Pond (aka Chris Wysopal). We'll...
Onion Routing
Not all Privacy Enhancing Technologies are new - but this one is probably new to you. Onion routing was developing in the 1990's by the US government...
Security Planner
Generic security advice is good, but tailored advice is much better. Everyone's situation is a little different. What are you trying to protect? Who o...
Crypto Wars 2.0
Privacy is a human right - and you don't have to justify rights, you just have them. That's kinda the whole point. But you do need to exercise them an...
Controlling Your Digital ID
In the real world, we present different aspects of ourselves in different environments: home, work, family, friends, school, etc. Why can't we do this...
Treat Plugins Like Apps
Software plugins allow you to add functionality to existing applications. Web browsers commonly use these extensions to add functionality like shoppin...
Reclaiming Data Privacy
There are way too many data brokers and they have way too much of our data. We've talked a lot lately about what you can do to reclaim your privacy an...
New Year’s Resolutions 2025!
The start of a new year is always a good time to add some big juicy goals to your to-do list - call them New Year's Resolutions, if that works for you...
ALPRs Are Everywhere
There are many ways in which we are tracked in the real world, but one of the most ubiquitous and insidious technologies is Automated License Plate Re...
Best of Bonus 2024!
Every week, I record a special, private bonus podcast for my patrons. Until today, all of that content was restricted to my supporters. But today I’ve...
Replay: Golden Age of Surveillance
I'm digging into the vault for a classic replay! I first interviewed Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), on May 7, 2018. It was Epi...
Best of 2024!
I've had some truly amazing interviews this past year. For your listening enjoyment, I've curated a set of clips from some of the best shows, creating...