52 episodes
One-Time Pod Derek Bruff
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One-Time Pod explores the history of cryptography through episodes produced by students in Derek Bruff's first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it's interesting.
The title is a play on the term "one-time pad," a cipher that's used just once and is thus perfectly secure. Thanks to Joe Hills for the title suggestion.
For more on Dr. Bruff's first-year seminar on cryptography, visit the course homepage: derekbruff.org/blogs/fywscrypto/.
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Episode 48 - The Right to Be Forgotten
Should people have the right to have their personal data deleted from databases and websites?
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Episode 47 - PRISM
After Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs, how can Americans trust their government again?
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Episode 46 - USA PATRIOT Act
Did the US government create a surveillance state in its response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
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Episode 45 - The Fourth Amendment
Can the US Constitution keep up with changing surveillance technology?
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Episode 44 - P vs. NP
What might happen if all modern encryption techniques are rendered useless?
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Episode 43 - Cicada 3301
Who is behind one of the internet's most intricate and mysterious scavenger hunts?