October 26, 2017 🎧 Using Ad Blockers to Tame Those Annoying Web Ads Web ads are the bane of our web-surfing existence, and yet people repeatedly reject the notion of paying for web content. How do we…
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…
October 12, 2017 The Mouse That Scored, How Copyright Went Wrong In the first of a two-part interview, activist and author Cory Doctorow explains how copyright law has failed to keep up with the realities…
October 5, 2017 🎧 Goodbye Privacy, Hello Panopticon Just because you’re not paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not tracking you! And just because you feel that you have nothing to hide doesn’t mean…
September 21, 2017 🎧 Rise of the Machines: Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence? Will the robots rise up and take over? Or will Artificial Intelligence usher in a Utopian future? These concepts may have seemed like science…
September 14, 2017 🎧 Equifax Breach, Here’s What You Need to Do Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus, was hacked – over 143 million U.S. accounts may have been leaked, making them much more…
September 7, 2017 🎧 If You Aren’t Backing Up, Your Data is on Borrowed Time Do you have backup copies of all your family photos and home videos? What about your tax documents and other financial data? Maybe you…
August 31, 2017 Your Privacy Rights Are Under Assault at the U.S. Border There are bills before Congress to use drones along our border for mass surveillance and provisions to capturing all manner of biometric data when…
August 24, 2017 🎧 How to Live in the Era of Fake News Jeffrey Ritter, author of “Achieving Digital Trust”, is back to help us understand the phenomenon of “fake news” and to explain why it’s not…
August 17, 2017 🎧 Hackers Crack Safes, Teslas, Car Washes and Voting Machines Chris Romeo regales us with tales of safe-cracking robots, demonic car washes, possessed Teslas, and hacking of voting machines! Where did this all happen?…
