Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast


Latest Episodes

From Mailbox to Ballot Box
June 15, 2020

With the US general election just over 20 weeks away and no vaccine in sight for the coronavirus, it's time to think very seriously about how you're going to vote. Even if you think you want to vote in person this November,

Fiber For Our Future (part 2)
June 08, 2020

We've established that we have a high speed internet access problem - now what can we do about it? In part 2 of my interview with the EFF's Ernesto Falcon, we'll talk about how broadband fiber-based internet is a critical piece of national infrastructu...

Fiber For Our Future (part 1)
June 01, 2020

The COVID-19 era has exposed several weaknesses in American infrastructure and exacerbated the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than the digital divide: access to high speed internet.

Apple vs FBI, Part 2
May 25, 2020

The FBI is once again trash-talking Apple for not helping them in their investigation of a terrorist - this time, the alleged perpetrator of the Pensacola shooting. However, like the San Bernardino shooting a few years ago,

Beware the Evil Maid
May 18, 2020

Intel created the Thunderbolt protocol to give us blazingly fast data transfer and other interesting features. Thunderbolt usually comes with the newer USB-C ports, common on laptops, especially Macbooks. Unfortunately,

COVID19 Security & Privacy Tips (Part 2)
May 11, 2020

In part two of my interview with Malwarebyte's David Ruiz, he tells us how to avoid the scams we discussed last week. And then we move on to discuss the potentially serious privacy issues that could come from the emerging surveillance regimes,

COVID19 Security & Privacy Tips (Part 1)
May 04, 2020

In times of great fear and anxiety, we need to be especially vigilant against snail oil salesmen. Never letting a good crisis go to waste, the bad guys are capitalizing on the chaos to lure us into downloading malware and buying fraudulent (or even har...

Have You Been Pwned?
April 27, 2020

Every time there's a data breach at a company or service where you do business, there's a chance that the bad guys will reverse engineer your password. And once they do that, they will almost surely try to use that email and password combination to log...

Phish Spotting 101
April 20, 2020

The bad guys are having a field day with all the coronavirus hubbub, using our fears and anxieties to trick us into clicking bad links, downloading infected files, or installing malware. While the topic is new, the techniques are the same: phishing.

Contact Tracing, Privately
April 13, 2020

As health services and society in general struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, people are desperately seeking new and inventive ways to curb the spread of the disease. A tried and true tool of epidemiologists is contact tracing: interviewing...