TEH Podcast

TEH Podcast


TEH 201: Privacy and Paranoia

August 30, 2023

In This Episode: Privacy and Paranoia


This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.


(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)


Top Stories
  • 0:51 LN: PNW Corgi Picnic Photos
  • 1:50 GR: Trip to Spain.
    • 4:10 Using a VPN is getting worse.
    • 8:00 Google doesn’t like VPN. Searches are constantly captcha’d.
    • Logging in to services hits you with a lot of “prove you are you,” or log in again, etc.
    • The problem is sites know if the IP address is a VPN.
    • 17:00 Telling your credit card you are traveling.

  • 28:30 GR & LN: Are passphrases good or bad?


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