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Techlore Talks brings you in-depth conversations with the experts at the forefront of privacy, security, and digital rights. Hosted by Henry Fisher, founder of Techlore and long-time digital rights educator, each episode features meaningful discussions with the people building, researching, and advocating for digital freedom. From cybersecurity researchers and privacy tool developers to open-source advocates and digital rights activists—if they're shaping how we protect ourselves online, they're on this show. Topics include: privacy tools and technologies, cybersecurity threats and defenses, open-source software, surveillance and digital rights, encryption, tech policy, and digital sovereignty. New episodes released regularly. Subscribe and join the community at techlore.tech.

  1. vor 3 Std. ·  Video

    KeePass for Apple Devices: Syncing, Security, and Cross-Platform Gaps (Strongbox Interview)

    Once you use Strongbox, a community favorite KeePass client, it's hard to use anything else. Alex Logan is the VP of Engineering at Applause, the company behind Strongbox. He dives into why KeePass syncing works differently than cloud-based password managers, how Strongbox's sync tries to close that gap, what the Applause acquisition actually changed, the open source nuance that trips people up, and whether a Windows or Android client is ever coming. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Strongbox: https://strongboxsafe.com/• Strongbox Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/strongbox• KeePass: https://keepass.info/• Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (02:47) - OVERVIEW OF PASSWORD MANAGERS (04:50) - 3 TYPES OF PASSWORD MANAGERS (08:50) - PASSWORD SYNCING (11:23) - SERVERS + APPLE iCLOUD (13:13) - KEEPASS CLIENT INCONSISTENCY + GAPS (19:12) - NEXTCLOUD SYNC (19:59) - WIFI SYNC (21:17) - iCLOUD ADVANCED DATA PROTECTION (ADP) (23:01) - STRONGBOX TARGET USER (25:11) - AUTOFILL (29:34) - BROWSER SUPPORT (30:34) - BROWSER EXTENSION SECURITY (32:57) - APP CONNECTIONS (35:10) - SAFETY & ANALYTICS CONCERNS (40:57) - OPEN SOURCE (43:19) - BROADENING STRONGBOX'S HORIZONS (46:06) - THE STRONGBOX TEAM (47:54) - STRONGBOX ACQUISITION (51:34) - PAYING FOR OPEN SOURCE + PRICING (56:24) - WHAT'S NEXT? + HOW TO FOLLOW 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  2. 16. Juli

    Scam Tactics, Stalkerware, Pegasus, and Surveillance Reform, with David Ruiz from Malwarebytes

    Every major global event brings the same scam tactics wearing a new mask. In this interview, David Ruiz, journalist and privacy advocate at Malwarebytes, breaks down how to identify (and avoid) scams, stalkerware vs. nation-state spyware, and what privacy is actually about. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Malwarebytes: https://malwarebytes.com/• Coalition Against Stalkerware: https://stopstalkerware.org/• Citizen Lab: https://citizenlab.ca/• Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://eff.org/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (01:31) - DAVID'S BACKGROUND (06:38) - POLICY BEHIND-THE-SCENES (09:18) - WORLD CUP SCAMS (16:58) - BEHAVIORAL VS. TECHNOLOGICAL DEFENSES (18:53) - SCAMS VS. MARKETING (21:49) - RESPONSIBILITY (24:35) - WHERE TOOLS FIT + MALWAREBYTES TOOLS (28:42) - MALWAREBYTES RELATIONSHIP TO BIG TECH (31:30) - ANALYTICS (33:56) - COALITION AGAINST STALKERWARE (41:46) - STALKERWARE VS. GOVERNMENT SPYWARE (44:32) - STALKERWARE IS MOSTLY ANDROID? (47:44) - DAVID'S TECH STACK (50:29) - FINAL THOUGHTS 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  3. 14. Juli

    From Darknet Pharmacy Order to 1+ Million Users: Building Cake Wallet (Vik Sharma Interview)

    Your bank can freeze your account, block your transfers, and demand explanations for how you spend your own money. Cake Wallet founder & CEO Vik Sharma learned this firsthand when trying to transfer $90 between his accounts. In this interview, he shares this story, along with the history of Cake Wallet, why financial privacy matters, the importance of decentralization, Bitcoin vs. Monero, silent payments, and more. Thank you to PikaSim for sponsoring this episode! Visit https://pikasim.com/techlore and use code "TECHLORE" for 10% off your anonymous eSIM. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Cake Wallet: https://cakewallet.com/• Monero by Cake Wallet: https://monero.com/• Cupcake: https://cupcakewallet.com/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (01:47) - HOW VIK GOT INTO CRYPTO (03:32) - THE VALUE OF DECENTRALIZATION (06:15) - THE VALUE OF CRYPTO FOR SKEPTICS (08:54) - CAKE WALLET PHILOSOPHY + VISION (12:48) - TECHNICAL VS. PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM (15:30) - "WE CAN'T SEE THAT" (18:39) - SPONSOR (20:30) - BLOCKCHAIN PRIVACY CONCERNS (27:29) - ZCASH RECEPTION (29:25) - SILENT PAYMENTS (31:10) - CUPCAKE (34:03) - PRIVACY & SECURITY VS. MARKETING (38:39) - CENSORSHIP RESISTANCE (40:02) - CURRENT CONCERNS (42:28) - HOW TO FOLLOW 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  4. 20. Juni

    End-to-End Encrypted Photo Sharing: How Cryptee Balances Privacy, Abuse Prevention, and Legal Risk

    End-to-end encrypted file sharing may sound simple, but for Cryptee, it took five years to ship. In this interview, Henry sits down with John Ozbay, founder and CEO of Cryptee, to talk through why: preventing CSAM, why client-side scanning doesn't work, how Cryptee's solution was designed to raise the barrier to mass spread without compromising encryption, and the broader philosophical question of where developer liability ends and moral responsibility begins. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Cryptee: https://crypt.ee• Stop Chat Control: https://stopchatcontrol.eu• Open Web Advocacy: https://open-web-advocacy.org• EDRI: https://edri.org ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (04:08) - E2EE SHARING HESITATIONS (14:09) - HOW IS BIG TECH HANDLING THIS? (16:24) - LOCAL SCANNING (19:27) - HOW ARE CHAT APPS HANDLING THIS? (21:24) - E2EE BACKUPS (22:40) - HOW MUCH IS THIS CONSIDERED? (25:38) - CRYPTEE'S SOLUTION (42:09) - THREAT MODELING (48:18) - MEGA'S APPROACH (53:16) - LIABILITY VS. RESPONSIBILITY (01:01:40) - HOW TO ENGAGE PRODUCTIVELY (01:09:48) - CHAT CONTROL & ULTERIOR MOTIVES (01:21:34) - IS CHAT CONTROL DEAD? (01:25:33) - HOW JOHN GOT INVOLVED (01:34:44) - CHANGING OVER TIME + RIGHT TO REPAIR + LINUX (01:41:32) - CLOSING THOUGHTS 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  5. 6. Juni

    Firefox VPN Explained: 50GB Free, No Logging, and How it Compares to Mozilla VPN

    Firefox now has a free built-in VPN with 50GB of bandwidth per month. In this interview, Henry sits down with Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox at Mozilla, to break down exactly how it works, what Mozilla can and can't see, the difference between Firefox VPN and Mozilla VPN, and why no other major browser is likely to follow Mozilla's lead on this. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Firefox VPN: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features/vpn/• Mozilla VPN: https://www.mozilla.org/products/vpn/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (01:23) - THE FIREFOX PHILOSOPHY (05:14) - TARGET USER (06:47) - TECHNICAL FEATURES (08:48) - FIREFOX VPN VS. MOZILLA VPN (14:57) - PROXY EXTENSION DEMAND (16:21) - MULTI-HOP (18:14) - TRUST (20:21) - VPN VS. PROXY PROTECTION (24:09) - LOGGING (25:04) - LOCATION (28:09) - RECEPTION & POPULARITY (29:28) - MOBILE (31:10) - SAFETY VS. PRIVACY (33:14) - TOR (34:35) - STREAMING (35:10) - ORIGIN OF FIREFOX VPN (37:31) - FREE VPN POSITIONING (40:22) - 50GB FREE & UPGRADE PATHS (42:38) - COSTS TO RUN (43:23) - USING MOZILLA VPN & FIREFOX VPN? (44:37) - USING CUSTOM DNS (47:23) - AD BLOCKING (49:10) - WHAT'S NEXT? (50:36) - HOW TO FOLLOW 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  6. 30. Mai

    App Tracking, Duck AI, the Microsoft Controversy, and the Future of Private Browsing (DuckDuckGo Interview)

    Most people know DuckDuckGo as a search engine, but they're also creating a full privacy ecosystem covering a browser, VPN, data broker removal, and app tracking protection. In this Techlore Talks interview, Henry sits down with Peter Dolanjski, Director of Product at DuckDuckGo, to cover what Google is actually collecting, why incognito mode doesn't do what most people think, how DuckDuckGo's contextual ads differ from Google's behavioral targeting, and more. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com• Duck AI: https://duck.ai• No-AI DuckDuckGo: https://noai.duckduckgo.com ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (01:20) - PETER'S BACKGROUND AT MOZILLA (02:56) - EXPLAINING THE ROLE (06:05) - WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU USE GOOGLE (11:31) - ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT DATA ACQUISITION (14:32) - "DO NOT TRACK ME" & INCOGNITO MODE (16:29) - GOOGLE VS. DDG SEARCH PRIVACY (20:08) - PERSONALIZATION (23:12) - WHAT DATA DDG COLLECTS (25:00) - SEARCH ENGINE AGE VERIFICATION (26:01) - THREAT MODEL/TARGET USER (29:04) - MAXIMALIST PRIVACY VS. PRIVACY FOR ALL (32:48) - DDG SEARCH IN iOS SETTINGS (34:55) - REVENUE & ADS (38:39) - PRODUCT EXPANSION (41:33) - WHY THE DDG ECOSYSTEM? (44:06) - EPHEMERAL BROWSING (48:10) - DDG BROWSER TECHNOLOGY (50:33) - EXTENSION SUPPORT (54:29) - WHY PLATFORM-BASED? (56:55) - PASSKEYS (57:24) - PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS (58:42) - FINGERPRINTING (01:00:42) - OPEN SOURCE (01:01:58) - APP TRACKING PROTECTION (01:08:37) - MICROSOFT CONTROVERSY (01:11:06) - AI (01:15:14) - NO AI (01:16:51) - PERSISTENT ID? (01:18:29) - WHAT'S MISSING IN THE ECOSYSTEM? (01:21:09) - WHAT'S NEXT? (01:22:24) - HOW TO FOLLOW 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  7. 16. Mai

    Naomi Brockwell on the Surveillance Accountability Act, Developer Arrests, and Why You Can't Opt Out

    The federal government doesn't need a warrant to buy your location data, your financial records, or your private information from data brokers. The Surveillance Accountability Act wants to change that. In this Techlore Talks interview, Henry sits down with Naomi Brockwell, host of NBTV and president/founder of The Ludlow Institute. They discuss the bill, Naomi's three-pillar approach to fighting the surveillance state, why decentralization doesn't automatically provide privacy, and what you can actually do right now. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Surveillance Accountability Act: https://surveillanceaccountability.com• Contact your rep (script included): https://surveillanceaccountability.com/support• Naomi Brockwell TV: https://nbtv.media• Naomi's 501(c)(3): https://www.ludlowinstitute.org ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (02:02) - EVOLUTION OF PRIVACY CONTENT (03:10) - NAOMI'S BACKGROUND (06:59) - DECENTRALIZATION + PRIVACY (10:24) - AREAS OF FOCUS (11:47) - DEVELOPERS BEING ARRESTED (16:17) - STAYING OPTIMISTIC (23:12) - NAOMI'S BILL (28:38) - WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS? (34:59) - PHYSICAL VS. DIGITAL BOUNDARIES (40:34) - WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE? (42:42) - RELATIONSHIP WITH POLITICS (45:53) - "CONTACT YOUR REPS" (49:40) - IS PRIVACY PARTISAN? (53:07) - HOW TO GET INVOLVED 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

  8. 25. Apr.

    Firefox AI, User Choice, and Partnering with Anthropic: Mozilla VP Interview

    AI is everywhere - including Firefox. But, unlike most services, Mozilla allows you to turn it off completely. In this interview, Henry sits down with Adam Fishman, Mozilla's VP of Product, to cover the philosophy behind Firefox's AI features, how Smart Window works, the controls that let you turn everything off, the importance of "having a seat at the table", and the surprising story of how Anthropic's Claude found several security vulnerabilities in Firefox. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS• Firefox: https://www.firefox.com• Mozilla AI: https://www.mozilla.ai• Mozilla Common Voice: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO (01:30) - EXPLAINING THE ROLE (04:03) - ADAM'S BACKGROUND (06:05) - SUNSETTING POCKET (10:12) - PHILOSOPHY ON AI (14:58) - AI FEATURES VS. ADVOCACY (23:59) - MOZILLA VS. BIG TECH AI (28:37) - MOZILLA + ANTHROPIC (31:52) - FIREFOX AI CONTROLS (37:18) - FIREFOX AI DESKTOP VS. MOBILE (39:22) - MOZILLA AI PRIVACY (41:36) - FIREFOX FORKS (44:23) - HONEST AI CAPABILITIES DISCUSSION (51:02) - AI ETHICS (54:11) - MOZILLA'S FUTURE PRIORITIES (57:11) - GETTING STARTED WITH AI (01:01:04) - HOW TO FOLLOW (01:02:44) - OUTRO 🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREKeep Techlore Talks independent & growing: ★ Support this podcast ★

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Techlore Talks brings you in-depth conversations with the experts at the forefront of privacy, security, and digital rights. Hosted by Henry Fisher, founder of Techlore and long-time digital rights educator, each episode features meaningful discussions with the people building, researching, and advocating for digital freedom. From cybersecurity researchers and privacy tool developers to open-source advocates and digital rights activists—if they're shaping how we protect ourselves online, they're on this show. Topics include: privacy tools and technologies, cybersecurity threats and defenses, open-source software, surveillance and digital rights, encryption, tech policy, and digital sovereignty. New episodes released regularly. Subscribe and join the community at techlore.tech.

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