Crucial Tech
Unraveling the technology that affects us all but that few of us understand, in a format to give you a basic understanding in the time it takes to drive to and from the grocery store.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 235
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 3.6: Phishing is on the rise and it threatens the 2020 Election in the US
Between January 1 and August 23, The number of phishing sites detected by Google rose by more than 200,000 to 1,892,980. Three years ago there were less than 560,000.
“When you get that all too fami…
UPDATE!!!!! SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING IS IN BIG TROUBLE
We have a few episodes this month talking about drastic changes in advertising and marketing and until this week, it looked like everything was under control... until Facebook admitted this week that…
Ep. 3-4: Wanna Cookie? You have more control over what companies do with your data then you think
Ep. 3-3 Quantum computing is a security nightmare, but making it safe is a priority for Sectigo
You may have heard of quantum computers. You may actually think they are mostly hype. They are. We won't see them come into real use for a decade. In the meantime, people are freaking out over how th…
Ep. 2:23 Using technology to stop a pandemic
Episode 3.2: BlackHat wrap up on how foreign elections are being hacked Part 2
In our last episode we reported on presentations at BlackHat USA 2020 about election interference. In this second part, we look specifically at the Russian and Chinese approaches to disinformation ca…
How hostile states are hacking elections, Part 1
Our first re-run of the season is going back to our report on election hacking, a two-parter, that doesn't dwell on the technology of elections as much as how they can be influenced. For several year…
Cookies, Black Hat Conference and the coming third season
Are you concerned about how social media seems to know exactly what you are thinking about? Are you’re that they are listening to you and your friends on mobile devices? Well, they don’t and they are…
Episode 2:29 - Recap on AI and facial recognition, and an update
We thought we would be able to wrap up the last three episodes featuring Tim Bajarin and Matthew Rosenquist, but then life happened and more AI disasters occurred. This is yet another launching point…
Episode 2:28 Matthew Rosenquist talks ethics, facial recognition and the potential benefits of AI
Last week, we had @TimBajarin give a fairly pessimistic view of the future of #AI and #facial recognition. This week we bring in the positives (sort of) with security and AI guru @MatthewRosenquist. …
Episode 2:27 Tim Bajarin, ethics, facial recognition, AI, and how Apple is keeping us safe
By the time we finished last week's episode on security settings a lot happened. So I started making some calls to those who know what was going on. This week, we talk to the Analyst di tutti Analyst…
Episode 20:26 How to keep Facebook secure, facial recognition technology, and so much more
My business partner, Joe Basques called me up and started asking questions about #Facebook security, which morphed into #AI, which moved into #facial_recognition. So we decided to start from the begi…
Episode 2:25 Ethical technology development is not easy but has become crucial
I'm deep into writing a book with Richard Bach, a security guru from the UK, on the ethical development of #AI technology and have found that there are really not a lot of books offering practical gu…
Ep. 2:24 A follow up on contact tracing and putting my money where my mouth is
Last week I talked about the importance of tracking apps to help do contact tracing for the #Coronavirus epidemic and after I did that podcast I signed up for a study to get tested myself and I signe…
Ep. 2:22 We told you so, Part 2: venture capital and entertainment changes
In the last episode, we looked at changes in how tech media and businesses are changing during the #COVID19 #pandemic and how @FootwasherMedia has been predicting these changes for decades. We've als…
Ep. 2:21 Hey, we told you so, Part 1
Joe Basques and I have been working in the tech world and media for several decades. We have often warned clients of what was to come and that they should be ready for it and almost universally we ha…
Ep. 2:20 Trusted Computing Group: You've never heard of them but their work is keeping us safe online
In this episode, we talk to Steve Hanna from the Trusted Computing Group (@TrustedComputin) to talk about the organization's work in making computing secure. You probably haven't heard of them, but t…
Episode 2:19 What the hell are certificates and why you should care.
When searching the web, do you ever get a request to renew or accept a certificate? Yeah, you have but you probably had no idea what it was about. It's kind of important, it should be more widespread…
Episode 2:18 Digital corporations are selling your data to foreign governments
I hope that headling caught your attention. It should. We hear a lot about how the US government is watching us, but the information that Edward Snowden said was being collected on us pails in compar…
Episode 2:17 Fingerprints? Probably not.
This week I found opt that is it probably less likely that the government is watching you than Amazon is. More importantly, to law enforcement you may not exist at all. Check out how tech firms are h…