Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we are secure, we wear the juice, we get to the choppa, and:

[00:02:15] The news this week, including

going

to prison in Portland for calling yourself an engineer without permission, more fast-food incredulity

at the KFC Double Down, robbing

banks while invisible, and Intel’s

chips are all vulnerable to a security exploit and you should check and get it fixed if it needs fixing

[00:12:38] In a world where Intel and ARM are massively dominant, is there space for some more open architecture? OpenPOWER and SuperH

could be candidates technologically, but what’s standing in the way of this from a business point of view? Would

anyone make hardware on these less-popular architecture? Should we even want them to?

[00:28:21] VPNs are the hot topic right now, for all sorts of reasons. Protecting your privacy from governments or your

work from your client’s network, connecting to your employer’s systems from elsewhere, getting around geoblocking… there are

all sorts of reasons you might want to use a VPN, but which ones out there are actually good, and how do you make a decision?

A good place to start may be thatoneprivacysite.net, and we’re currently using

some combination of Opera Browser’s built-in VPN, Lantern, PrivateInternetAccess,

ExpressVPN, and Nord VPN; we certainly also want to hear recommendations for other providers and why you’re using those in particular; there are lots of different reasons why people

want a VPN, and lots more why people should

[00:44:23] We were asked by a listener to talk about working for oneself: all three presenters either

work for themselves right now or have done so for over a decade, so we’ve got quite a few thoughts and

war-stories about all this. Herewith, some ideas on why working for oneself is good (or why it isn’t), and

what we’ve learned (sometimes pleasantly, sometimes less so) along the way…

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