October 15, 2018 Did China Implant Spy Chips in Our Computers? Bloomberg claims that Chinese manufacturers have implanted tiny spy chips into many of our computer systems. Apple, Amazon and others strenuously deny this. Who’s…
June 11, 2018 🎧 Carpe Datum: Opting Out of Data Collection There are estimated to be 2500-4000 data brokers in the United States who are collecting, buying and selling your information. Vermont has become the…
March 5, 2018 🎧 Facebook’s Two-Faced Privacy Facebook has wants your face. Guess we should have seen that coming. While Facebook has been using face recognition for years now, it began…
February 12, 2018 🎧 Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts Do you know where your software’s been? If you’re downloading your apps and driver software from third parties, you may be getting more than…
December 4, 2017 🎧 A Nasty Worm in Your Apple Product (and How to Fix It) It’s been a rough week or so for Apple products, in particular their new Macintosh operating system version called High Sierra. A horrendous security…
October 19, 2017 Do We Own Any Media We Buy Anymore? In the second of my two-part interview with activist and author Cory Doctorow, we discuss how copy protection schemes (called “Digital Rights Management”) is…