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…