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Fabian A. Scherschel
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The Private Citizen
Episode 168: The TikTok Law
Is the so-called TikTok law a tool to enable the US President to censor apps and websites at will? Yes and no. One thing is certain: This law isn't about TikTok; that's just a smokescreen.
2024-04-18
2h 02
The Private Citizen
Episode 167: The Death of Serious Politics
Political scientist Brian Klaas looks into why we talk so much about politics, but never actually discuss any actual policy. My critique of his analysis is rather predictable.
2024-04-02
1h 21
The Private Citizen
Episode 166: The Twitter Files, Part 6
Revisiting the idiotic decision to ban Donald Trump off Twitter and what it means for the future of democracy that private companies started to influence public discourse like that and got away with it.
2024-03-28
1h 58
The Private Citizen
Episode 165: I Ate'nt Dead
I explain why this show went on an unplanned hiatus and once again vow to get back into the swing of things.
2024-03-24
1h 06
The Private Citizen
Episode 164: The Year 2023 in Review
In my annual recap episode, I am looking back at the topics that I've covered this year and forward to the changes that 2024 will bring for the podcast.
2023-12-20
1h 10
The Private Citizen
Episode 163: Back to the Twitter Files
The reporters from the Twitter Files project just won the Dao Prize for excellence in investigative journalism. Could there be a better time to dive back into these stories?
2023-11-08
1h 28
The Private Citizen
Episode 162: The Westminster Declaration
What do Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, John Cleese, Yanis Varoufakis, Richard Dawkins and Walter Kirn have in common? They are all, despite holding very different political beliefs, very concerned about the future of political discourse in Western democracies.
2023-11-01
1h 44
The Private Citizen
Episode 161: The EU's Ministry of Truth
EU bureaucrats maintain that the Digital Services Act is not a censorship regime, but is meant to save people from misinformation by deleting it from the internet or hiding it from view. Which, in fact, is the very definition of censorship. Welcome to the Cardassian Union.
2023-10-15
1h 58
The Private Citizen
Episode 160: The Lobbyists Behind Chat Control
It turns out, that the EU's push to completely abolish digital privacy might not actually be an altruistic move to save children from abuse. Several tech companies, including one headed by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, stand to profit substantially from the decision. Which is why they massively influenced it.
2023-10-07
2h 10
The Private Citizen
Episode 159: Society Is Going to Hell in a Handbasket
How following the exodus of Germany's worst YouTuber to TikTok opened a private hell of lolcows for me. To a point where I don't think I understand society as a whole anymore. What is this shit? And where is it all going to end?
2023-09-28
1h 21
The Private Citizen
Episode 158: The EU Wants to Abolish Digital Privacy
The EU wants to establish universal client-side scanning for text messages and photos on citizen's phones. With other words: All cryptography would be useless and hence, nobody would have any privacy in the digital realm anymore.
2023-09-20
1h 37
The Private Citizen
Episode 157: When Well-Meaning People Make the Laws
Germany tried to make its laws against child pornography stricter and it backfired spectacularly. Now, lawyers and judges are desperately trying not to enforce these laws as the government scrambles to fix them.
2023-09-13
1h 24
The Private Citizen
Episode 156: The Widening Gyre
I'm back in the saddle. Well, at least partially. An explanation of what happened and some new developments in the Modern Solution case from a few years ago.
2023-07-20
1h 13
The Private Citizen
Episode 155: The Twitter Files, Part 5
The podcast returns with more coverage of The Twitter Files. On this episode, I am discussing how the US government used the FBI to exert censorship control over Twitter and many other tech companies to reinforce government narratives and silence critics.
2023-06-01
2h 16
The Private Citizen
Episode 154: The Democratic Delusion
Many people seem to think that the democratic system of government extends beyond how the state is run and into civil society. In this episode, I advance the theory that this has caused a lot of people to fall prey to propaganda and misunderstand how journalistic reporting and scientific enquiry should be done.
2023-05-19
1h 32
The Private Citizen
Episode 153: Another Nord Stream Theory
The Danes say they have proof that the Russians blew up Nord Stream. But the fact that they want to keep this proof secret makes me think it does not exist and the whole thing is another attempt to distract people from Seymour Hersh's original reporting.
2023-04-22
58 min
The Private Citizen
Episode 152: The Discord Leaks
Instead of working with him to uncover hidden government secrets about the US proxy war in Ukraine, The New York Times and Bellingcat sold out Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to the authorities. The kid's now facing a lifetime in prison.
2023-04-20
1h 53
The Private Citizen
Episode 151: Musk Kills the Twitter Files
When Substack launched what Musk interpreted as a Twitter competitor, the billionaire tried to force journalist Matt Taibbi to leave the publishing platform behind in favour of Twitter. When Taibbi declined, Musk declared The Twitter Files to be done and dusted.
2023-04-14
1h 20
The Private Citizen
Episode 150: The Twitter Files, Part 4
During the pandemic, Twitter and other social networks censored dissidents and suppressed factually true stories to reinforce government propaganda and the interests of multi-billion-dollar companies with respect to SARS-CoV-2 and vaccines to combat it.
2023-04-13
1h 44
The Private Citizen
Episode 149: The Nord Stream Cover-Up
To cover up Seymour Hersh's report, the CIA planted a fake story about the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage with the press. Chancellor Scholz might even have discussed this cover-up with President Biden in person.
2023-03-28
1h 21
The Private Citizen
Episode 148: An Act of War
Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US President Biden authorised a plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines, which the US military executed last summer under cover of the BALTOPS 22 exercise.
2023-03-22
1h 18
The Private Citizen
Episode 147: LinkedIn Says Fauci Is Spreading Misinformation
Horribly broken content moderation practices at LinkedIn make the Microsoft-owned social network actively hostile to scientific progress and press freedom, it seems.
2023-03-11
1h 34
The Private Citizen
Episode 146: Vaccines Were Never Going to Stop the Pandemic
Dr Anthony Fauci, for a long time the man in charge of the US response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, has now admitted that vaccines have failed to stop the spread of the disease and were never likely to.
2023-02-28
2h 04
The Private Citizen
Episode 145: War Never Changes
Today is not the anniversary of the war in Ukraine. That is just one of the propaganda lies by people who are afraid to stand up for peace and fight against murder and injustice.
2023-02-24
1h 00
The Private Citizen
Episode 144: Dismantling the Russiagate Delusion
For years, corporate media has maintained that Donald Trump was under the influence of Russian agents and that the Russians helped him win the 2016 presidential election. All of these claims turned out to be unsubstantiated. How exactly did the media err on such a monumental scale?
2023-02-15
2h 20
The Private Citizen
Episode 143: Three Year Anniversary
Today, the podcast turns three years old and I tell the story of how I became a journalist and what I learned in the process.
2023-02-05
1h 18
The Private Citizen
Episode 142: I Saw the Future in Dubai
Some observations on the possible future of society from a recent trip to the United Arab Emirates.
2023-02-03
1h 20
The Private Citizen
Episode 141: How LastPass Made Itself Obsolete
Everyone needs a password manager these days and many people were using LastPass. Unfortunately, LastPass made some pretty horrible mistakes that mean that these people should look for an alternative now. Here's why.
2023-01-17
1h 31
The Private Citizen
Episode 140: The Twitter Files, Part 3
The Twitter Files show us how cynical the US government tried, and often succeed, to shape how we perceive reality. But they also show those of us that weren't buying the propaganda that they aren't slowly going insane.
2023-01-11
2h 24
The Private Citizen
Episode 139: Refocussing the Podcast
The start of the new year sees some changes to the podcast. This episode provides an outlook of what is coming down the line.
2023-01-04
1h 35
The Private Citizen
Episode 138: The Year 2022 in Review
Looking back at the third year of The Private Citizen and at the topics discussed and issues tackled in 2022.
2022-12-28
1h 16
The Private Citizen
Episode 137: Tracking Elon's Jet
Responding to listener feedback on episodes about journalism, Drachenlord, The Twitter Files, the Fediverse, free speech, artificial intelligence and beyond.
2022-12-23
2h 09
The Private Citizen
Episode 136: The Twitter Files, Part 2
The Twitter Files show how the factually accurate Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed. They also reveal the secret FBI operation targeting social media executives and high-level journalists that led to this suppression.
2022-12-21
1h 44
The Private Citizen
Episode 135: The Twitter Files, Part 1
In a first episode about the Twitter Files disclosures, we look at how Twitter, at the behest of intelligence agencies, catalogued people's speech and selectively silenced some of them. And then lied about it.
2022-12-14
1h 37
The Private Citizen
Episode 134: Specialised Idiots
In response to listener feedback, we're delving a bit deeper into the topic of machine learning and its impact on society and our political structures.
2022-11-25
2h 20
The Private Citizen
Episode 133: A Blessing and a Curse
Since Twitter doom and gloom has some people moving to Mastodon, the Fediverse is being discussed even by mainstream media outlets. Is it finally going to take off? Let's discuss some of the problems we are facing here.
2022-11-23
1h 46
The Private Citizen
Episode 132: Twitter Melts Down
What happens at Twitter at the moment is only a story because Silicon Valley is finally waking up to the fact that Elon Musk is a horrible and pretty dumb person. And the only reason that Silicon Valley did not know this is because it spent years stupidly convincing itself of the exact opposite.
2022-11-15
2h 07
The Private Citizen
Episode 131: The New Caste System
In a world were computer algorithms decide what is best for us, two groups of people will exist: those who program the algorithms and those who do what the algorithms tell them to do.
2022-11-10
1h 40
The Private Citizen
Episode 130: The Planet Is Fine
People don't want to save the planet, people are afraid to get inconvenienced and guilt-ridden about their childrens' future. They only care about themselves and it's going to destroy our social welfare societies. George Carlin called it thirty years ago.
2022-11-03
1h 42
The Private Citizen
Episode 129: What Happens When Elon Musk Buys Twitter?
Elon Musk, after a long saga of tweets and lawsuits, is about to finalise his deal to buy Twitter. What does that mean for the social network and also the general political landscape?
2022-10-26
2h 16
The Private Citizen
Episode 128: Ask the Next Question
Science-fiction writer and critic Theodore Sturgeon not only invented the Vulcan salute and the Prime Directive for Star Trek, he also pioneered a very interesting approach to critical thinking centred around always asking the next question.
2022-10-19
2h 10
The Private Citizen
Episode 127: Special Military Operation
Responding to listener feedback on episodes about Drachenlord, electrical network frequency analysis, Stephanie Sterling vs. the Domina dev, Nord Stream, fear-based journalism and religion.
2022-10-12
2h 03
The Private Citizen
Episode 126: The Scourge of Fear-Based Journalism
Fear is the strongest of all emotions, which means news articles based on fear get the most clicks. Which means out society is going to hell in a handbasket and the idiot journalists are to blame.
2022-10-05
1h 59
The Private Citizen
Episode 125: What Happened With Nord Stream?
Someone blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, bringing natural gas from Russia to Europe, via Germany. Was it the Russians? Did the Americans do it? Why? And what will happen now?
2022-09-28
1h 18
The Private Citizen
Episode 124: When Doing the Right Thing Actually Isn't
What happens when you're a game developer and you put stupid political statements in your patch notes? Stephanie Sterling makes a video about it and you get banned off Steam. Surely that's a good thing?
2022-09-19
1h 22
The Private Citizen
Episode 123: Electrical Network Frequency Analysis
Can you tell when an audio recording was made, down to the second, just by the electrical background hum? What sounds like a science fiction fantasy is actually real.
2022-08-24
1h 05
The Private Citizen
Episode 122: Drachenlord Defeated?
Permabanned on almost all internet platforms, Rainer Winkler has been effectively silenced off the internet. He's also being investigated for disseminating illegal pornography. Will he give up now? And is his situation actually a free speech issue?
2022-08-17
1h 52
The Private Citizen
Episode 121: Bits and Bobs, Part 2
Catching up with some stories I've talked about in earlier episodes: Julian Assange, Drachenlord and the War in Ukraine.
2022-06-26
1h 09
The Private Citizen
Episode 120: Driver Disenfranchisement in the EU
The EU thinks that some lines of code, probably shoddily written, should take precedence over how the actual driver wants to control their vehicle on the road. It's an idiotic idea and it says a lot about the people passing these laws.
2022-06-25
1h 10
The Private Citizen
Episode 119: Authoritarian Consequences of the Pandemic
The media landscape is breeding a generation of citizens that is getting taught to respect the authority of the state above all. No matter what the current issue of the day is, the pandemic, the War in Ukraine or climate change, it all boils down to a very dangerous thing: a citizenry that can't, or won't, think independently.
2022-05-26
1h 41
The Private Citizen
Episode 118: Non-Fungible Bullshit
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are a pretty stupid idea. Not only do they legally not guarantee ownership of anything, the very idea they represent is inherently flawed.
2022-05-18
1h 12
The Private Citizen
Episode 117: Blockchain Basics
Blockchain technology is one of the biggest buzzwords in tech in recent times. But what are blockchains and what do you need them for, really? Spoiler: Not much, actually.
2022-05-11
1h 39
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Episode 116: The Left's Fear of Musk
I don't like Elon Musk. But I think him buying Twitter isn't a bad thing. The people who do, however, are either unintentionally wrong or they are actively fighting on the side of censorship and propaganda, like the US intelligence community.
2022-05-05
2h 00
The Private Citizen
Episode 115: A Second Winter War?
What does the Russian war in Ukraine have in common with the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939? What is different? And what can we learn from this about how the current war is going?
2022-04-27
1h 37
The Private Citizen
Episode 114: War and Justice
In response to some input from listeners, I feel it is necessary to explain some things about how I cover the war in Ukraine and how I feel about wars in general. Let's talk about wars, international law and justice.
2022-04-19
1h 44
The Private Citizen
Episode 113: Lex Draconis
In Germany, telling someone on the internet that you will hurt and injure them if they visit you at home is apparently a valid defence for actually hitting them now.
2022-04-13
1h 49
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Episode 112: What Does Putin Want?
What are Putin's war goals in Ukraine? What is the Russian military trying to achieve? And how is it going?
2022-03-23
1h 53
The Private Citizen
Episode 111: Peak Hypocrisy
Facebook just made a mockery of the fight against hate speech by admitting that it's okay if you call for the murder of people the political mainstream doesn't like. It's only hate speech if you want to murder the wrong people. What the actual fuck.
2022-03-17
1h 59
The Private Citizen
Episode 110: Drachenlord on Tour
German YouTuber Drachenlord has sold his infamous Drachenschanze and is travelling in a pickup truck around Germany. Meanwhile, well-meaning people, who have no idea what's actually going on, think he's being bullied.
2022-03-12
1h 49
The Private Citizen
Episode 109: Agitprop Ahoy!
The war in Ukraine has been raging for eight years, largely ignored by the West. It is not new. Neither are the policy blunders by NATO and the EU that have led to the current full-scale invasion. Putin is to blame for the war, but the West has created the situation that enabled Putin to wage it.
2022-03-03
2h 23
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Episode 108: The Biggest Security Vulnerability of All Time
Log4Shell, a vulnerability in the Java application logging framework Log4J has been called the worst security vulnerability ever. Is that just the usual hype, though? Or why haven't we seen the forecast large scale exploitation of this bug? Is there something more sinister at play here?
2022-01-31
1h 22
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Episode 107: Neil Young Is Being a Dick
Neil Young has had his record label pull his music from Spotify because he doesn't like that Joe Rogan interviews people who have a different opinion than Neil Young. The story of a counterculture rebel turned censorship advocate.
2022-01-30
1h 32
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Episode 106: Concluding the Coronavirus Coverage, Part 2
Taking stock of the civil liberty and privacy nightmare we have built for ourselves in the pandemic and explaining why I don't think reporting on it accomplishes much at this point.
2022-01-19
2h 09
The Private Citizen
Episode 105: Law vs. Justice
The law is not the same as justice. There can be unjust laws and illegal actions can beget justice. So why is it that many people can't tell the difference between these two concepts? And how can we reconcile them in our society?
2022-01-15
1h 18
The Private Citizen
Episode 104: Triage Is Too Logical for Germans
When who to save in case of a medical emergency becomes a moral, or even worse, a legal decision instead of a medical one, we all lose. This will soon be the reality in Germany, though, as the Constitutional Court has just passed a very unfortunate ruling in this regard.
2022-01-05
1h 51
The Private Citizen
Episode 103: The Year 2021 in Review
A look back at the second year of the show, through the lens of the topics covered and the things discussed.
2021-12-30
2h 46
The Private Citizen
Episode 102: The Cyberbunker Verdict
The people who ran the so-called bulletproof Cyberbunker in Germany have been sentenced to hefty jail times. But what does the verdict mean for other hosting companies and telecommunications providers in the country? Will they be liable for criminal activity of their clients from now on?
2021-12-22
2h 04
The Private Citizen
Episode 101: Climate Justice
On this special episode, Mike and myself are having what will probably be the beginning of many conversations on climate change, climate activism and their impacts on our civil rights and other aspects of our lives.
2021-12-16
3h 01
The Private Citizen
Episode 100: Let Me Tell You a Bit About Myself
For the one-hundredths episode of this show, I'm telling the story of who I am, where I was born and how I was brought up, in the hope that it will help you understand my place in the world and my biases as a basis for further episodes.
2021-12-14
3h 31
The Private Citizen
Episode 99: The Traffic Light Is On
Looking at the plans for the new German government, made up out of the Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals, there are some interesting free speech and privacy implications for the future. Not only of Germany, but probably also for much of Europe.
2021-12-07
2h 36
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Episode 98: The German Constitution and the Virus
The German Constitutional Court has decided that the strictest pandemic measures were within the remit of the law. The government is already talking about force-vaccinating everyone. I feel stoicism is the only recourse left for freedom-loving citizens of this country now.
2021-12-01
1h 39
The Private Citizen
Episode 97: The App Tracking Transparency Smoke Screen
What we've been suspecting all along has now been proven correct: Apple's app anti-tracking feature in iOS does precisely nothing to effectively protect your privacy. In fact, it makes things worse. And Apple probably knew this was the case, too.
2021-11-24
2h 24
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Episode 96: Discrimination, Enshrined in Law
In Germany, the pandemic emergency has now been declared over by a new law. But instead, the government can now just use all the measures, and more, whenever they want. Not even the parliament needs to approve.
2021-11-18
1h 42
The Private Citizen
Episode 95: Fuck the EU!
Looking at the EU's ban of two tattoo pigments as a good example for the silly and anti-scientific legislation the lawmakers in Brussels sometimes fall prey to. The EU desperately needs to fix idiotic behaviour like this if it doesn't want anti-EU voices to sway the public against the European Project as a whole.
2021-11-11
1h 42
The Private Citizen
Episode 94: Lord of Dragons
At what point does a person who is bullied relentlessly become responsible for the situation if they keep encouraging it? That's the question we are trying to fathom when looking at the case of German YouTuber Rainer Winkler aka. Drachenlord.
2021-11-03
2h 05
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Episode 93: Kinetic Options
Examining the contemporary forces arrayed against those speaking what they perceive of as the truth, be it Julian Assange or that random dude on Facebook.
2021-10-27
1h 58
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Episode 92: Bugs in Our Pockets
When Whitfield Diffie, Ronald Rivest, Steven M. Bellovin, Peter Neumann, Matt Blaze and Bruce Schneier come together to publish a paper on the security and privacy implications of client-side scanning, we should listen up.
2021-10-25
1h 48
The Private Citizen
Episode 91: A Not-So-Modern Solution
Modern Solution created a software platform that is so ass-backwards and treats customer data so casually, it's almost criminally negligent. Instead of fessing up to how bad they are as a company, they now want to get a security researcher in jail.
2021-10-20
1h 44
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Episode 90: Blowing the Wrong Whistle
What's more in your interest? Stopping Facebook from leeching off the private data of your life to further its monopoly or forcing it to censor your speech? And now take a guess which of the two politicians want to do and journalists are ecstatic about?
2021-10-13
2h 00
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Episode 89: The Cult of the Vaccine
How can the hope of a new drug that might help fight COVID-19 get turned into bad news? Bad journalism, that's how. Let's look at how Matt Taibbi breaks it down in his exemplary writing on the topic.
2021-10-11
1h 45
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Episode 88: Jamaican Traffic Lights
Will the recent German federal election be followed by time of horrible uncertainty, that is will it be the country's Brexit moment, or is it actually a good thing? This episode discusses the election result and gives a historic explainer of the German parliamentary system.
2021-10-06
2h 02
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Episode 87: Afghaniscam?
You expect me to believe that the best funded, best trained, best organised and most experienced military in history left military arms behind in a hasty retreat that are worth more than the annual military budget of all but two countries on the globe? Seriously?
2021-09-14
1h 35
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Episode 86: The Sausage Wars
A discussion with my friend Mike about the current state of Brexit and what it means for the future of the European Union and the geopolitical situation on the continent and beyond.
2021-09-12
3h 14
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Episode 85: The Latest in Despicable Journalism
Again and again, so-called journalists in big media outlets exaggerate or even outright invent stories to scare or outrage the public. The audience just buys it wholesale and never notices when, a day or two later, it all turns out to be complete bullshit. Today's example: Ivermectin.
2021-09-08
2h 00
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Episode 84: Steve Gibson's Squirrel
Authentication on the internet is fundamentally broken. Weak passwords, password reuse, data leaks and untrustworthy third parties tracking us while they log us in are the unfortunate reality right now. One man decided to single-handedly fix this mess.
2021-09-01
2h 07
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Episode 83: The Conspiracy Theorists Get It Right Again
Pegasus isn't new. Anyone in the field has known about NSO Group's spyware and its use against politicians, activists and journalists for half a decade. What's worth discussing, though, is how the topic has been ignored for so long. Both by the press and by iPhone maker Apple.
2021-08-25
2h 02
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Episode 82: The Afghan Disaster
The people responsible claim nobody could have predicted what happened in Afghanistan this week. But their experts did in fact did predict it, which wasn't exactly hard, and then the people in charge lied about it. The public now desperately needs to understand how governments operate, or it will all happen again. And soon.
2021-08-18
2h 30
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Episode 81: Let's Talk About Apple
What are the new features Apple is implementing in iOS 15 that have privacy and security people all up in arms? And why none of this should come a surprise to anyone who's actually paid some attention and is thinking for themselves instead of just buying the company propaganda.
2021-08-09
1h 43
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Episode 80: Biden's Dangerous Cyber Jingoism
The US President says it's likely that hacker attacks will lead to a real war and that is something that scares me a lot.
2021-08-05
1h 36
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Episode 79: How the German Immunity Passport Was Hacked
The certificate infrastructure of the German digital immunity passport, based on an EU-wide system, has been completely undermined by a hack that's so easy to pull off that probably any twelve year old with a computer can accomplish it.
2021-07-28
1h 31
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Episode 78: Did You Know That Your Friends Are Extremists?
What happens when our media consumption is so fear-inducing that we let companies regulate our social connections? A culture of digital snitching develops that gives companies knowledge that previously only authoritarian governments possessed.
2021-07-07
1h 29
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Episode 77: Welcome to the Polizeistaat!
The German police can now hack into computers and phones, without the target having to have committed a crime. Even though a Berlin court has just ruled evidence from similar hacks originating outside of Germany to be inadmissible in criminal proceedings in the country.
2021-07-06
1h 35
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Episode 76: Censorship Does Not Take Place
The German constitution states that censorship does not take place and yet, Germany is one of the most censorship-happy countries when it comes to Western democracies and therefore at the forefront of the brewing culture wars. How can that be?
2021-06-30
1h 50
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Episode 75: YouTube's Unfair Censorship
YouTube blocked one of my episodes, insulting my professional reputation and claiming that I was spreading misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. They later admitted they were wrong, but refuse to tell me how such an egregious mistake can happen. Let's examine what behaviour like this means for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
2021-06-23
1h 45
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Episode 74: Immunity Passports Are Here
Germany has just introduced digital immunity passports as mandated by the EU. How does this system work and what does it mean for civil rights of EU citizens in the future?
2021-06-16
1h 30
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Episode 73: A Great Time to Be a Podcaster
The EU copyright reform is now in effect in all member countries and with it comes the horrible idea of upload filters. Let's discuss why this is bad for journalism, already very much on its last legs, and free speech in general.
2021-06-07
1h 20
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Episode 72: The Political Implications of Ransomware
Let's talk about ransomware. Ransomware is not the problem. People being lazy is the problem.
2021-06-03
1h 20
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Episode 71: Zero Trust, My Ass!
Cloudflare's Zero Trust Browser is a dumb idea if I ever saw one. Here's why. And as a little bonus, we look at the Mighty browser, which is even more insane.
2021-05-27
1h 47
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Episode 70: Targeting Your Citizens With Spyware
The German government wants to put trojans on its citizens' phones and other devices to crack end-to-end encrypted communications. And it wants to do it with as little due process as possible. Welcome to another battle in the Crypto Wars!
2021-05-19
1h 48
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Episode 69: The Contraband Corned Beef Sandwich
The Gemini protocol, a text-only alternative to normal websites, might be the perfect off-the-grid publishing platform. At the very least, it's damn cool. In an old-school, indieweb kind of way.
2021-05-12
1h 26