Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

In the past, we’ve been told that “there’s an app for that” – meaning, if you search the app store, surely you can find a pre-existing app that does what you’re looking for. But maybe it does a lot of stuff you don’t want, too. Maybe it’s chock full of ads or extracts your personal info. Maybe it just costs too much or requires a subscription. But you now have the power to cr...

Residential proxy networks have become very popular ways for bad guys to launder their illicit activities through our normal home network traffic. By mixing in their traffic with ours, they are able to use (and abuse) the good reputation of our home IP address. Many of us have unwittingly allowed this to happen by using cheap streaming boxes or installing shady apps on our sm...

Meta has released a very powerful new AI agent app called Muse. Likewise, OpenAI has released a similar app called Dots. Both apps feature charming, friendly and decidedly non-threatening avatars to perhaps assuage your fears of AI. But these agents ask for extensive access to your data and devices, which in my view is – as for right now – too dangerous. We’ve already seen th...

Today marks an incredible milestone for this podcast: 500 episodes! Not only is that a crazy long run for any podcast, but I’ve also been astonishingly consistent. I’ve managed to put out an episode of this show every single week for 500 straight weeks! Okay… I did miss one week 8 years ago… I’ll give you that story in today’s podcast. But as always for my “podcentennial” epi...