Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast


Latest Episodes

The Truth is Out There
September 09, 2024

Mis- and disinformation is just a fact of modern life, but certain events can cause the practice to significantly increase - like a big election. This is a good time to review this phenomenon, learnin

Crazy Proton Summer
September 02, 2024

Proton released three major new products this summer, all within the span of about a couple months: Proton Docs, Proton Wallet and Proton Scribe. Given that Proton is a privacy-focused company, some o

National Public Data Breach
August 26, 2024

The headlines have been on fire with stories about 3 billion people's data being leaked from a company you've never heard of. But like many such stories, the mainstream media gets a lot of the importa

Dating App Privacy
August 19, 2024

Finding your soul mate or even just a one-night stand can all be done digitally now - there's an app for that. Several, in fact. But in order to find the best match, you need to turn over a lot of ext

Hacker Summer Camp 2024
August 12, 2024

It's time once again for cybersecurity professionals to make the pilgrimage to the scorching desert of Las Vegas, Nevada for a week of tech conferences that we lovingly refer to as Hacker Summer Camp.

Catch You on the BSide
August 05, 2024

Jack Daniel is a storyteller, wanderer, comic, bartender, blacksmith, luthier, historian, mechanic, and the worlds oldest millennial. He is also one of the founders of Security BSides. Jack has a col

CrowdStrike Lessons Learned
July 29, 2024

Last week, we all learned about a company called CrowdStrike that apparently has the capability to single-handedly bring multiple airlines, hospitals and other large companies to their knees in an ins

Open Source Intelligence
July 22, 2024

If someone decided to dig into your life - perhaps even try to 'dox' you - how might they go about doing that? What could they find about you right now on the internet? You might be surprised at how m

How & Why to Block Ads
July 15, 2024

Ads on the web are beyond annoying - they are actually a threat to your privacy and sometimes even your security. Ads pay for a lot of the "free" web content we consume, but until ad networks stop tra

Promising Privacy Tech
July 08, 2024

We're generating a ridiculous amount of data every day. Much of it is highly personal and that's dangerous. But there are actually several Privacy Enhancing Technologies that may allow us to use this