January 5, 2026 Decentralized Messaging There are a ton of messaging apps on the market – and there are actually quite a few that are very secure and private….
August 25, 2025 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…
September 16, 2024 Post-Quantum Crypto You may be vaguely aware of the term ‘quantum computing’ from media reports. But what you may not have picked up on is that…
February 26, 2024 Mitigating AI Risks Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword of the day. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a flood of AI-based tools…
March 6, 2023 Designing Apps for Privacy Privacy advocates like me implore people to use secure apps that protect their data. But how difficult is it to actually create those apps?…
July 4, 2022 Necessary Chaos While many of us prefer order in our lives, at least most of the time, we sometimes need a little chaos. Specifically, we need…
November 9, 2020 Zoom: Now with Actual Privacy Zoom went from an obscure teleconferencing company to a household word when the pandemic hit. Zoom wasn’t the best videoconferencing app by any means….
July 9, 2018 🎧 Crypto 101, What is Encryption, Anyway… We’ve talked about encryption in just about every single one of these shows but we’ve never actually talked about what it means to encrypt…
August 10, 2017 Why I Killed my Company to Save my Customers, pt 2 In this final segment, we address the classic conundrum: law enforcement believes that your servers hold key information that would prevent a devastating terror…
August 3, 2017 Why I Killed my Company to Save my Customers Ladar Levison is the CEO and Founder of Lavabit – a secure email service whose most famous customer was Edward Snowden. In part one…
