Episode 9.2 - Innocence is not a defense against online fraud

Recently, someone on Mastodon asked, "Looking for an article or blog or text, that succinctly describes, at grade 1 level English, why “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” is a crazy and bad argument, and perhaps also includes what some good arguments are. Need it for a family member. "

I thought that was an excellent request. So along with an article posted with this podcast, I interviewed John Gilmore, head researcher at the data-scrubbing company Deleteme, about the history of that philosophy and why it is "crazy."

What I learned from Mr. Gilmore even surprised me.