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Episode 55: An ouroboros of crappy privacy

Posted on April 9, 2018May 21, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about Cambridge Analytica, anti-sex trafficking bill SESTA/FOSTA, Google News Initiative and more. Enjoy!

[02:28] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers!
[04:18] ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower
[13:56] Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media | Politics | The Guardian
[15:13] The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency | The New Yorker
[15:37] Paul Ford: Facebook Is Why We Need a Digital Protection Agency - Bloomberg
[24:23] How Controversial Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill Will Screw Over Sex Workers - Rolling Stone
[25:38] Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia
[26:24] Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - Wikipedia
[36:46] Post-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and other Social Media
[38:11] Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira)
[38:48] Floor Remarks: CDA 230 and SESTA – Ron Wyden – Medium
[41:19] Slack picked a weird time to make it easier for bosses to download you
[48:35] yan on Twitter: "fun way to monitor someone's IP address:..."
[50:24] The Google News Initiative: Building a stronger future for news
[59:21] 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech – Humane Tech – Medium
[59:34] Why is your email in my car? | daniel.haxx.se
[1:01:10] Dialects of English: Take The Dialects of American English Survey

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged cambridge analytica, Facebook, fosta, google, sesta, slack

Episode 54: But this one involves a sheep!

Posted on March 27, 2018April 20, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about YouTube’s announcement to link to Wikipedia, the New Yorker’s profile of Reddit, Spotify and copyright law, and more. Enjoy!

[03:53] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers!
[06:36] Hire Christie!
[07:06] YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia - The Verge
[12:50] Phoebe Ayers on Twitter: "...It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor..."
[14:04] YouTube, the Great Radicalizer - The New York Times
[15:51] kate conger on Twitter: "case in point: in YouTube's statement, they don't take a position on whether the moon landing happened."
[19:56] The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
[29:49] Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet | The New Yorker
[43:04] Rochelle on Twitter: "Analyzing videos for YouTube this morning. The rules are always changing..."
[44:44] A $1.6 billion Spotify lawsuit is based on a law made for player pianos - The Verge
[49:20] Dear Music Fans... by StartUp from Gimlet Media
[51:16] Spooky action at a distance, how an AWS outage ate our load balancer
[55:26] Janelle Shane on Twitter: "Does anyone have a picture of sheep in a really unusual place? It's for pranking a neural net."
[57:31] Let's Encrypt on Twitter: "Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates and ACMEv2 are available today! More information can be found here: https://t.co/0SdH98Oabn"

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged aws, copyright, fakenews, letsencrypt, machine learning, music licensing, reddit, spotify, wikipedia, youtube

Episode 53: If a travel coffee mug and an Instapot had a baby

Posted on March 14, 2018April 2, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon Alexa’s laughing bug, Google helping the military develop AI for drones, the crypto event that dosed its attendees with cannabis, and more. Enjoy!

[01:37] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers!
[04:31] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler
[05:06] Hire Christie!
[06:39] Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs - The Verge
[11:07] Episode 47: Legitimizing a Shoplifting-like Behavior – The Recompiler
[15:46] The House That Spied on Me
[17:02] Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
[28:06] At This Crypto Event, the Attendees Really Were High | WIRED
[35:34] The Decentralist Perspective, or Why Bitcoin Might Need Small Blocks
[47:36] Safety First PDX
[49:58] Something mysterious has been happening to some clocks on the European continent.

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged ai, alexa, bitcoin, cannabis, cryptocurrency, drones, google, military, safetyfirstpdx

Episode 52: The yak’s given up. We’re both taking a break.

Posted on March 6, 2018March 16, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about Palantir's predictive policing activity in New Orleans, Trustico's mishandling of private keys, the recent DDOS attack on GitHub, ProPublica's guide to authenticating email, and more. Enjoy!

[01:13] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler
[02:03] Subscribe to the Recompiler!
[02:55] Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - The Verge
[03:14] Palantír - Wikipedia
[18:37] 23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys | Ars Technica
[23:33] @geofft: "Okay, this Trustico SSL certificate disaster looks _amazing._"
[28:32] A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED
[37:48] Authenticating Email Using DKIM and ARC, or How We… — ProPublica
[43:17] Pixelbuster on Twitter: "MULTI TRACK DRIFTING… "
[44:38] KnitYak

Posted in PodcastTagged algorithmic violence, ddos, email, github, palantir, predictive policing, propublica, security, trustico

Episode 51: I didn’t realize tweetdecking was a verb

Posted on March 1, 2018March 16, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about Twitter latest bot purge, infosec lawsuits, what the EFF says activists should keep in mind when using Slack, the magic of calendars, and more. Enjoy!

[00:49] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler
[01:47] Calagator 10th Anniversary Party
[02:38] Conservative Twitter is freaking out over a reported bot purge - The Verge
[10:23] Twitter Is Trying To Kill "Tweetdecking." Here's What You Should Know.
[17:30] Lawsuits threaten infosec research — just when we need it most | ZDNet
[20:12] This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car — To Prove A Point : All Tech Considered : NPR
[27:46] The Revolution and Slack | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[37:52] Expensify deleted their blog post about MTurk!
[40:56] The next platform you should be thinking about? Calendar apps. | Poynter
[46:14] A decade of events: Portland’s quintessential tech calendar turns 10 – Silicon Florist
[54:30] Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Discovery Tour lets the beauty of Egypt shine - Polygon
[57:08] Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel [Official Music Video]

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged calagator, calendars, eff, expensify, infosec, slack, twitter

Episode 50: We already have many solutions for that

Posted on February 23, 2018March 5, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about AMP for Email, the legacy of JP Barlow, and the "House the Spied on Me." Enjoy!

[03:55] Try Brave and support recompilermag.com
[07:27] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler
[08:05] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler
[09:02] AMP for email is a terrible idea | TechCrunch
[09:23] Episode 25: A certain amount of ambiguity – The Recompiler
[11:48] Bringing the power of AMP to Gmail
[19:13] Email is your electronic memory | FastMail Blog
[26:54] John Perry Barlow gave internet activists only half the mission they need.
[32:45] TerraServer RIP | Maps for the Web
[40:13] Why a tech journalist like Quinn Norton might think it’s fine to be friends with Weev.
[48:17] The House That Spied on Me
[56:21] Investigative Reporters and Editors | This Valentine's Day, background your date using public records

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged amp for email, eff, google, internet of things, jpbarlow, privacy

Episode 49: Ottomottopoeia

Posted on February 15, 2018February 21, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about Waymo v Uber, Algorithmic Violence, and how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth. Enjoy!

[00:57] Recompiler: Issue 9 (Hard Problems)
[05:07] The Waymo v. Uber trial: greed, ambition, and robot cars - The Verge
[07:41] Trade secret | Wex Legal Dictionary
[17:39] How the Frightful Five Put Start-Ups in a Lose-Lose Situation - The New York Times
[25:55] On-Algorithmic-Violence: Attempts at fleshing out the concept of algorithmic violence
[32:35] 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth | Technology | The Guardian
[36:13] AlgoTransparency
[53:48] Bringing the blog to a close | Geek Feminism Blog

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged algorithmic violence, algorithms, uber, waymo, youtube

Episode 48: Wouldn’t it be cool if we knew

Posted on February 8, 2018February 21, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about the Strava's heatmap, a newish iOS app called Verena, a new Amazon patent to track hand movements of warehouse workers, and how ICE now has a contract to access nationwide license plate recognition date. Enjoy!

[01:44] Recompiler Issue 9: Hard Problems
[05:32] Recompiler Newsletter
[06:04] Strava’s heatmap data lets anyone see the names of people exercising on military bases | WIRED UK
[13:37] @timmathews: "On my deployments..."
[14:59] Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)
[16:45] The Latest Data Privacy Debacle (NYT)
[24:30] Verena, an iOS app to help protect people in abusive situations
[28:36] Cell Phones: Friend or Foe? (Recompiler, Issue 7)
[29:28] Amazon Patents Wristband to Track Hand Movements of Warehouse Employees
[37:32] ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US
[48:03] Presenting the winners of the U.S. Wiki Science Competition – Wiki Education
[50:55] The Racist Sandwich Podcast: Food, Race, Class, and Gender by Racist Sandwich — Kickstarter

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged amazon, data collection, ice, informed consent, strava, Verena iOS app

Episode 47: Legitimizing a Shoplifting-like Behavior

Posted on February 2, 2018February 14, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon's new grocery store, adversarial audio hacks, and Twitter's Russian Bot email. Enjoy!

[02:18] Issue 9: Hard Problems
[05:51] Amazon’s New Checkout-Free Grocery Store Doesn’t Take Food Stamps
[19:52] Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages - Business Insider
[32:51] AI learns how to fool text-to-speech. That’s bad news for voice assistants
[34:39] Audio Adversarial Examples
[47:16] Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait [Updated] | Ars Technica
[56:29] Episode 36: Maybe Skynet is just malware battling each other
[1:02:24] Open Sourcing History: Using History to Make Your Game Better - YouTube
[1:05:27] The existential chatroom app you can only use when your phone is dying - The Verge

Complete show notes

Posted in PodcastTagged amazon, audio, russian bots, text-to-speech, twitter

Episode 46: Well, actually, we are tracking people

Posted on January 25, 2018February 5, 2018 by Christie Koehler

This week Audrey and I chat about the new selfie feature of Google's Arts & Culture app; vaporware products, arbitrage, and other strange aspects of global eCommerce; and discuss user consent and the web browser. Enjoy! - [02:13] "This google arts and culture app is pretty amazing.": https://twitter.com/petewentz/status/952563946615025665 - [11:52] Google app that compares your face to art frustrates people of color: https://amp.businessinsider.com/google-arts-and-culture-app-frustrates-people-of-color-2018-1 - [10:03] Google's art selfies aren't available in Illinois. Here's why.: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-google-art-selfies-20180116-story,amp.html - [13:26] Racist Sandwich podcast: http://www.racistsandwich.com/ - [15:55] The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed - The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/550136/ - [24:06] AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/ - [24:43] Oberlo: https://www.oberlo.com/ - [25:10] Shopify's Kit: https://apps.shopify.com/kit - [30:03] Does U.S. Postal Service Subsidize China-based Merchants?: https://www.practicalecommerce.com/u-s-postal-service-subsidize-china-based-merchants - [34:17] Neko Neko Sock Shop: https://nekosocks.shop/ - [36:56] The Truth About Amazon to eBay Arbitrage: http://www.webretailer.com/lean-commerce/amazon-to-ebay-arbitrage/ - [39:05] There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch (PDF): http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf - [39:51] Regarding Browsers: https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/browsers-are-a-mess.html - [45:46] "The year that PornHub’s analytics become data for my dissertation.": https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/status/953815604179255296 - [47:55] Unicorn sock gift sets – Neko Neko Sock Shop: https://nekosocks.shop/products/unicorn-socks - [55:54] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler: https://shop.recompilermag.com/collections/back-issues/products/issue-9-hard-problems Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/01/25/episode-46-well-actually-we-are-tracking-people

Posted in PodcastTagged arbitrage, china, ecommerce, Facebook, facial recognition, google

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