Thursday, 27 May 2021 – 23:50:36 CEST

Cloudflare's Zero Trust Browser is a dumb idea if I ever saw one. Here's why. And as a little bonus, we look at the Mighty browser, which is even more insane.

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Episode 18: Xiaomi Brazenly Collects User Data on Their Phones

Wednesday, 6 May 2020 – 21:54:27 CEST

The fourth biggest smartphone maker in the world, Xiaomi from China, makes very cheap phones with decent features. But it looks like they are selling out your privacy to recoup some of the money you're saving when you buy their phones.

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Episode 4: Misunderstandings about TLS and Privacy

Thursday, 20 February 2020 – 16:34:36 CET

TLS, sometimes referred to as HTTPS, is often held up as being very important for privacy reasons. In most cases that is true, but there are exceptions. And blindly arguing for every website to use it without understanding the wider implications also carries its dangers.

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The Private Citizen

A Civil Liberties Podcast

Veteran technology journalist Fabian A. Scherschel covers the most important threats to our personal liberties, privacy rights and freedom of speech. In reporting on these issues, he draws from a decade of experience in reporting on information security topics, mixed with a healthy dose of journalism critique. The show places a particular emphasis on stories and viewpoints that have been ignored in the legacy media.

Episode 71: Zero Trust, My Ass!

Episode 18: Xiaomi Brazenly Collects User Data on Their Phones

Episode 4: Misunderstandings about TLS and Privacy