The Cyber Show The Cyber Show

This episode is a recording of our live-stream from Friday May 10th 2024. The crew discuss cyber current affairs including the latest leaks and hacks.

We are back! It is not closed, it is not a circuit, and it is not even television! In the first episode of Season 3, Andy, Helen and Ed discuss the issues surrounding CCTV in society, why CCTV makes your life worse, ferments fear, the massive insecurity industry, and much, much more! Featuring special guests Kate and Guy. Credit to Lianhao Qu for episode thumbnail.

The crew discuss things that are being displaced by digital technology, and what that means for society, democracy and governance.

In part 2, of this Inscrutable Systems mini series, we recap on Part 1, and draw some essential conclusions, on both the techical and political sides of the argument. We also go discuss issues at large, including modern day software complexity. Kate and Andy discuss some important psychological factors, including issues like the public's blind faith in technology and software, and how do we make ourselves less vulnerable to this?

In this episode we go into the background of this scandal, its technical, legal and cultural aspects. We examine where British justice gets things wrong, and what it gets right. We look at technical issues of syncing distributed databases, and talk about forensic issues, reliable logs, back doors, software engineering and standards of evidence. We also look at psychological notions of user error bias, spirals of silence, identification and victim blaming.

In this first visual episode, Ed and Helen speak to special guest, Mercy Ageitu, about Fake Women in Tech, what that means, and many of the problems still faced by women in the workplace, especially in the tech industry.