Corrupted Nerds: All Podcasts

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Corrupted Nerds: All Podcasts

Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society. We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level. Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover. But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest. In the main podcast, Conversations, you'll hear interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff. The Extras podcast contains related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future. This is the full feed, containing all the podcasts from all the streams. Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.

  1. 19/10/2014

    Conversations 12: Metadata & surveillance with Carly Nyst

    The Australian government will soon introduce legislation making it compulsory for telecommunication companies to record the data about their customers' use of their services for up to two years, and make it available to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But is it the right way to go? "This is very much the way in which western nations are going, it's been the case in Europe under the European Data Retention directive for some little while now," said Attorney-General George Brandis on 16 July. But what he didn't say was that the European Court of Justice has declared the blanket recording of telecommunications data to be a breach of human rights. It isn't a proportionate response to the claimed threat, and there's no evidence that it'll actually even help. "What we're being asked to do is ourselves -- innocent law-abiding citizens -- to sacrifice our own liberties, our own rights, in the vague hope that it will somehow catch these handful of Nazi Pedos who are out there," said Carly Nyst, London-based legal director of Privacy International. "Nazi Pedos" is PI's label for the "general all-encompassing bad person who lives on the internet" -- terrorists, pedophiles, cyber criminals, or whoever else we're meant to be afraid of this week. Carly Nyst spoke about the legal and privacy issues surrounding the metadata proposals at public meeting titled "Data Retention: the European Experience", organised by Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Australian Privacy Foundation. This episode of Corrupted Nerds: Conversations presents a lightly-edited version of that event. This conversation was recorded on 15 October 2014 in Sydney, Australia. For full credits see: http://corruptednerds.com/pod/c00012/

  2. 25/05/2014

    Conversations 10: Michelle Dennedy, privacy engineering

    Why do so many internet applications end up being hit with privacy disasters? Why not make sure they handle personal data properly to begin with? There's a process for that, and it's called "privacy engineering". Michelle Dennedy is chief privacy officer with information security firm McAfee and, along with two family members, is co-author of the book "The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value". The ebook version of is available for free. As I reported in my ZDNet Australia column a few days ago: "Oftentimes what you find is that [privacy] is the realm of the lawyer, or the risk manager if you're lucky, or maybe the odd finance guy will wander into the cave every now and again," Dennedy said. "Then you go and you talk to the people who are slinging code, or buying services or software or techniques, or going to the cloud and dreaming up technical stuff, and they say to you, 'Kinda leave us in our cave over here, and go write your little policies, they're so cute, and then maybe at the end of it -- maybe -- you get to write some terms and conditions to get me out of my obligations.'" You recognise that scenario, right? It's another of those ethical shortfalls, where the rules that society has agreed to operate by are seen as just another inconvenience to be avoided. Privacy engineering is the process of turning various policies, from privacy laws to the needs of the business' plan for data, into something that programmers can work with -- indeed. something they'll want to work with because it's now an engineering problem. It's also something that quality assurance (QA) processes can deal with. This interview was recorded on 6 May 2014 in Sydney, Australia. For full credits, see the podcast website: http://corruptednerds.com/pod/c00010/

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Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society. We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level. Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover. But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest. In the main podcast, Conversations, you'll hear interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff. The Extras podcast contains related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future. This is the full feed, containing all the podcasts from all the streams. Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.

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