The gift-giving season is officially upon us, and with covid supply chain issues, if you're going to order gifts, you need to get on it. And in today's show, I'll share the highlights of my annual Bes

Nothing is arguably more fundamental to a democracy than voting. But it's not enough to have a secure election. The electorate also needs to trust that the results are valid. In the United States toda

There were lots of scary computer security and privacy stories in the news this week, coinciding nicely with Halloween. We'll start off with an unfortunate new cybersecurity term: killware. This is so

Today, we're surrounded by strong encryption. Thanks to efforts like Let's Encrypt, almost all web communications today at encrypted. And thanks to wonderful privacy communications tools like Signal,

Facebook had a horrible, no-good, very bad week. Not only did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go completely offline for about six hours, a whistleblower came forward to show the world what most of us

Today I have the great honor and pleasure of speaking with two luminaries in the field of privacy: Michelle Finneran Dennedy and Melanie Ensign. Between them, they have decades of experience managing

I admit it. I'm an Apple fan. Are they perfect? Definitely not. But in most cases, they're actually trying to be good. And at the end of the day, their business model doesn't rely on hoovering up your

Apple was set to roll out controversial new on-device scanning technology in iOS 15 last week, but thanks to pushback from groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and people like you, Apple has

It's really easy to complain about the sadly insecure state of many of our products and services, but the fact is that doing security right is hard - even when you're trying to get it right. Part of t

Ever paired your phone to a rental car? Did you erase all the data from the last car you sold or turned in at the end of your lease? Do you know what data you car is sending to the cloud wireless righ