Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

In the US alone, there are tens of thousands of small organizations that are responsible for critical infrastructure and vital community services. Most of them don't have an IT department let alone a cyber security expert on staff. And yet these organizations are being attacked by cyber criminal gangs with ransomware and are also being targeted by foreign adversaries who would like the ability to disrupt our very civilization. While the US federal cyber agencies have not properly responded to these threats, a handful of volunteer organizations have emerged, organized under the Cyber Resilience Corps, to address these needs. Today I'll speak with Michael Razeeq, Grace Menna, Adrien Ogee and Eric Franco about their much-needed efforts.

Interview Notes

Cyber Resilience Corps: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/program/cyber-resilience-corps/ 

Volunteer! https://cybervolunteers.us 

Cyber Security Clinics: https://cybersecurityclinics.org/ 

The Ransomware Hunting Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransomware_Hunting_Team 

Roadmap to Cyber Defense: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/roadmap-to-community-cybersecurity/ 

Path to Long-Term Cyber Resilience report: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/a-path-to-long-term-cyber-resilience-for-under-resourced-organizations/ 

Grace Menna’s BSides LV talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/v20rxx_afw0?&t=1410  

CISA Cybersecurity Resources for High-Risk Communities: https://www.cisa.gov/audiences/high-risk-communities/cybersecurity-resources-high-risk-communities 

FBI InfraGuard: https://www.infragardnational.org/ 

Further Info

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support the mission: https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

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Table of Contents

0:00:13: Intro

0:00:26: Couple announcements

0:01:09: Interview setup

0:03:38: Defining some terms

0:06:40: Introductions

0:07:51: What is the Cyber Resilience Corps?

0:13:59: What are some of the other affiliated cyber groups?

0:19:24: How do you reach organizations in need?

0:26:43: Do orgs ever resist or eschew your help?

0:34:22: How are these efforts funded?

0:42:14: is there agreement on where to focus efforts?

0:44:02: Which sectors are most important to secure?

0:51:11: Are there accepted standards for infrastructure security?

0:53:38: What are the requirements for volunteers?

1:04:19: How do match volunteers with needs?

1:08:28: How long do the support relationships last?

1:16:31: What key things have you learned from your initial work?

1:22:58: How do you scale this effort to address the massive need?

1:25:18: Shouldn't Big Tech be doing more here?

1:33:49: How can we help?

1:37:28: If I'm an organization, how do I get help?

1:38:38: What's next?

1:44:28: Wrap-up

1:47:59: Patron podcast preview

1:48:59: Looking ahead

Today we'll wrap up my series of tips for enumerating all your old online accounts and deciding whether to delete them or just dumb down the personal data they have on you. There are several things to consider - we'll go through them all!

In other news: a study ranks the most private AI chatbots; LinkedIn is set to use your personal data to train their AI; ChatGPT has released an AI browser; new phishing scam for password manager creds; Gmail did not leak 183M passwords; man discovers his robot vacuum sharing lots of personal data; more info on Cellebrite's mobile hacking abilities; Flock expanded its surveillance with Ring and drones; and group finds that half of our satellite communications are not encrypted.

Article Links

Which Generative AI Is Most Privacy-Respecting? https://www.obscureiq.com/which-generative-ai-is-most-privacy-respecting/

LinkedIn will use your data to train AI – how to opt out https://proton.me/blog/linkedin-ai-training

Chatgpt Atlas Browser https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/22/chatgpt-atlas-browser/

Phishing scam uses fake death notices to trick LastPass users https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/phishing-scam-uses-fake-death-notices-to-trick-lastpass-users

No, Gmail has not suffered a massive 183 million passwords breach https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/no-gmail-has-not-suffered-a-massive-183-million-passwords-breach-but-you-should-still-look-after-your-data

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-vacuum-broadcasting

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details https://www.404media.co/someone-snuck-into-a-cellebrite-microsoft-teams-call-and-leaked-phone-unlocking-details/

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/

Exclusive: Flock Safety paid over $300 million for 17-month-old drone startup Aerodome https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/flock-safety-paid-over-300-million-for-17-month-old-drone-startup-aerodome/

Leak From the Sky: It Turns Out a Lot of Satellite Data Is Unencrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/leak-from-the-sky-it-turns-out-a-lot-of-satellite-data-is-unencrypted

Tip of the Week: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/removing-old-accounts/ 

Further Info

Data Diet series: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/data-diet-introduction/ 

Backing up 2FA seed codes: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/how-to-backup-2fa-seed-codes/ 

Using email aliases: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/how-to-use-email-aliases-part-1/ 

Claudito: https://github.com/micahflee/claudito 

LM Studio: https://lmstudio.ai/ 

Dark Wire book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/ 

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support our mission! https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

Get your Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Merch! https://fdsd.me/merch 

Table of Contents

0:00:07: Intro

0:00:27: News briefs

0:01:49: News preview

0:03:53: Which AI Is Most Privacy-Respecting?

0:09:21: LinkedIn will use your data to train AI

0:14:23: ChatGPT's new Altas browser

0:21:46: Phishing scam uses fake death notices

0:25:32: Gmail has NOT suffered a massive password breach

0:27:57: Man finds smart vacuum sending maps of home

0:33:41: More Cellebrite capability details leak

0:38:28: Flock inks deal with Ring cameras

0:42:57: Flock Safety buys drone company

0:46:52: Half of satellite comms are unencrypted

0:51:26: Tip of the Week

1:00:01: Patron podcast preview

1:00:18: Looking ahead

1:01:39: New patron promotion coming?

AI chatbots like ChatGPT have made quiet a splash. Companies are tripping all over themselves in a rush to add "AI" to everything, heedless of the security risks. But perhaps more insidious are the privacy risks. Most AI processing is done in the cloud, meaning that your queries and chats are subject to inspection, sharing, storing and monetizing. These AI systems are incredibly expensive to train and operate. And AI companies are desperate to feed them every scrap of data they can find. It's a recipe for privacy disaster. But there are ways to make it more private and today we'll discuss these approaches with Proton's head of AI, Eamonn Maguire.

Interview Notes

Lumo privacy and security model: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-security-model 

AI privacy concerns: https://proton.me/blog/ai-privacy-concerns 

How to build a private AI: https://proton.me/blog/how-to-build-privacy-first-ai 

LaTeX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX 

Further Info

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support the mission: https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

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Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:12:22: Defining some terms

0:15:29: What are the main privacy issues with modern AI?

0:22:53: What are the dangers of training AI models on personal data?

0:27:57: How do we make AI chatbots safer to use?

0:35:31: What are Proton's goals with Lumo?

0:42:41: How can Lumo protect a user's privacy?

0:52:19: Can we do more to anoymize cloud LLM queries?

0:56:50: What can we do to increase trust and transparency with AI?

1:02:55: Where does Proton store and process AI data?

1:10:35: Which LLM models does Lumo use?

1:15:38: Will Proton offer a local-only version of Lumo?

1:20:36: What's next for Lumo and AI at Proton?

1:27:59: Will Lumo ever be part of Proton pricing bundles?

1:31:24: Wrap-up

1:35:14: Patron podcast preview

1:36:04: Looking ahead

Now that we've tracked down all our old online accounts, it's time to make them more secure and review the data they contain. We should download a copy of that data for safe keeping before we ultimately delete or suspend the accounts. We'll discuss this next step in our journey of reducing our online data footprint - our Data Diet.

In the news: Windows 10 support has officially ended; seniors targeted with malware from Facebook groups; Tile trackers can also track you; massive Salesforce data leaked after refusing to pay ransom; dangerous Discord breach; Apple, Google to reluctantly comply with new Texas age law; California enacts age-verification law; EU Chat Control defeated; California makes GPC universally available; largest CCPA fine to date levied against TSC.

Article Links

Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/windows-10-support-ends-today-but-its-just-the-first-of-many-deaths/

Seniors targeted in global Facebook scam spreading new Android malware https://therecord.media/seniors-targeted-facebook-android-malware-scam

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say https://www.wired.com/story/tile-tracking-tags-can-be-exploited-by-tech-savvy-stalkers-researchers-say/

ShinyHunters Leak Data from Qantas, Vietnam Airlines and Others https://hackread.com/shinyhunters-leak-data-qantas-vietnam-airlines-others/

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/

Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/apple-and-google-reluctantly-comply-with-texas-age-verification-law/

California enacts its own internet age-gating law https://www.theverge.com/news/798871/california-governor-newsom-age-gating-ab-1043

Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/

California Governor signs first-in-the-nation privacy bill into law https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/california-governor-signs-first-in-the-nation-privacy-bill-into-law

CPPA fines Tractor Supply Company $1.4 million for privacy violations https://therecord.media/ccpa-tractor-supply-privacy-fine

Tip of the week: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/secure-old-accounts/ 

Further Info

How to freeze your credit: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/credit-freeze-now-is-the-time/ 

Setting up Global Privacy Control: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/how-to-enable-global-privacy-control/ 

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support our mission! https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

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Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:00:28: News preview

0:02:31: Win10 support ended

0:08:19: Seniors targeted with malware from Facebook groups

0:12:00: Tile trackers can also track you

0:19:51: Massive Salesforce data leak

0:26:50: Dangerous Discord breach

0:32:35: Apple, Google to comply with new Texas age law

0:39:47: CA enacts age-verification law

0:44:56: EU Chat Control defeated!

0:49:33: CA makes GPC universally available

0:55:02: Largest CCPA fine to date

0:57:02: Tip of the Week

1:01:41: Wrapping up

1:02:29: Looking ahead

Our critical infrastructure is vulnerable and under attack by nation state actors, either for profit or perhaps even to establish a beachhead for future cyber conflict. During the pandemic, many of our core systems were automated and connected to the internet for remote administration, but this just created a larger attack surface. The federal government hasn't done nearly enough to protect these systems. Groups like DEF CON Franklin are working to find cyber volunteers to bring our national critical utilities above the 'cyber poverty line'. Today we'll explore the problems and solutions with Franklin co-founder Jake Braun, including what we can all do to help.

Interview Notes

DEF CON Franklin: https://defconfranklin.com/ 

For more info or help, email “defconfranklin” at gmail.com.

Volt Typhoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt_Typhoon 

Initial Franklin trials: https://harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/first-water-utilities-take-volunteer-cyber-help 

Franklin Almanac: https://defconfranklin.com/almanack.html 

Franklin launch (DEF CON 32): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TdY9JUaybc 

DEF CON 33 Franklin update: https://defconfranklin.com/water_cybersec.html 

Jake’s books: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AJake%2BBraun 

More help: https://www.cybervolunteers.us/en 

Further Info

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support the mission: https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

Get your Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Merch! https://fdsd.me/merch 

Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:03:19: Why did you start the DEF CON Franklin project?

0:07:58: Why did you focus on protecting water systems?

0:12:41: Why target our water systems?

0:17:10: How do protect 50,000+ water facilities?

0:22:01: What are key takeaways from your first trials?

0:24:53: What are some of challenges you've faced?

0:29:13: Why did we ever put critical infrastructure on the internet?

0:31:05: Are there third parties involved in facility security, too?

0:32:45: How do you coordinate your efforts with other, similar orgs?

0:36:32: How do you know when your job is finished?

0:39:14: Are you getting support from the US government?

0:41:31: What's next for Franklin? How can we help?

0:43:38: What's the long term roadmap for Franklin?

0:45:00: Interview wrap-up

0:46:54: Patron podcast preview

0:47:52: Looking ahead

0:49:11: My other stuff

There are literally billions of devices connected to the internet today - many of them cheap, insecure IoT devices... smart thermostats, doorbell cameras, webcams, cheap WiFi routers and other smart appliances. As we like to say, the "S" in "IoT" is for security. And when insecure devices are no longer supported, the security bugs will never be fixed. We'll discuss the implications of this growing problem and potential solutions with a passionate right-to-repair advocate and the founder of the Secure Resilient Future Foundation, Paul Roberts.

Interview Notes

Secure Resilient Future Foundation: https://secure-resilient.org/ 

The Security Ledger: https://securityledger.com/ 

Tech Timebombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZERADCyug 

Secure Repairs: https://securepairs.org/ 

Paul’s Congressional testimony: https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/there-right-repair  

FULU Foundation: https://fulu.org/ 

US PIRG: https://pirg.org/ 

Institute for Security and Technology: https://securityandtechnology.org/ 

NIST 800-232: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/232/ipd 

Further Info

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support the mission: https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

Send me your questions! https://fdsd.me/qna 

Get your Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Merch! https://fdsd.me/merch 

Table of Contents

0:01:42: Interview terminology

0:03:22: How did you come to found SRFF?

0:08:24: Why are abandoned IoT devices "tech time bombs"?

0:16:53: What are the dangers of hacked IoT devices?

0:18:28: Is there any real liability for making insecure IoT devices?

0:23:36: How important is transparency to law making?

0:29:07: How does the right to repair interact with IoT security?

0:38:33: How should consumers be made aware of abandoned devices?

0:43:56: Can we rely on ISP's to block insecure devices?

0:46:42: What other groups are working on improving IoT security?

0:52:24: Should the gov't be funding research into securing IoT devices?

1:01:20: What can we do to help?

1:06:58: Patron podcast preview

1:07:31: Looking ahead

It's rare these days to find a well-designed and useful application that was made to be private from the get-go. Too many apps today view your personal data as a cash cow to be mercilessly milked, claiming to value your privacy when they really value the extra revenue they can make off of your private data. When I find useful apps that are private by design, especially ones that can replace more popular apps that harvest our data, I like to call attention to them: in this case, Ente Photos. Today I'll ask the founder and CEO why privacy is important to him and how it influenced his design approach.

Interview Notes

Ente Photo: https://ente.io/

Ente Auth: https://ente.io/auth/ 

Ente’s Machine Learning: https://ente.io/ml/ 

Ken Thompon’s lecture on trust: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210 

Further Info

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support the mission: https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

Get your Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Merch! https://fdsd.me/merch 

Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:04:08: interview terminology

0:06:44: Why did you start Ente and why do you care about privacy?

0:15:23: Why should we trust Ente with our private data?

0:20:14: What private information does Ente collect?

0:25:12: How hard is it for 3rd party apps to integrate with the OS?

0:29:39: Is Ente more private than Apple Photos with ADP enabled?

0:31:40: How hard is it to migrate from Google or Apple Photos to Ente?

0:34:30: Is facial recognition metadata in a standard, portable format?

0:35:51: How hard is it to export photos from Ente?

0:37:57: Does Ente Auth allow for easy export and backup?

0:39:28: How do you backup your Ente photos?

0:41:12: How much of Ente's AI photo processing is purely on-device?

0:45:51: How do you vet third party software libraries for privacy?

0:49:07: What data could Ente give, if required, to law enforcement?

0:52:43: How can we pass on our legacy of memories to our kids?

0:54:55: What's next for Ente?

0:59:43: Interview wrap-up

1:00:56: Patron podcast preview

1:01:36: Looking ahead

In our quest to clean up and secure our data, today I will give you several clever and useful techniques for uncovering old, forgotten online accounts. We'll scrape the bottom of the barrel to complete our list of accounts so that we can upgrade their security, see what data they have, and remove anything we no longer want floating around out there, waiting to be stolen or abused.

In the news: Chat Control is up for a vote in the EU (time to contact your MEPs); Samsung to show ads on their smart refrigerators; new automated sextortion spyware; a third of UK firms spying on employees; airlines sells 5B flight records for warrantless searching; ICE signs $3M contract for phone hacking tool; ChatGPT to guess your age or require ID; Swiss government looks to enable mass surveillance; Google Pixel 10 adds C2PA support; Apple iPhone 17 includes killer hardware security feature.

Article Links

Chat Control: Can the EU Parliament save our encrypted chats? https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/chat-control-can-the-eu-parliament-save-our-encrypted-chats

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/

Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn https://www.wired.com/story/stealerium-infostealer-porn-sextortion/

A third of UK firms using 'bossware' to monitor workers' activity, survey reveals https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/uk-firms-bossware-monitor-workers-activity

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/

ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/ice-unit-signs-new-3-million-contract-for-phone-hacking-tech/

ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-will-guess-your-age-and-might-require-id-for-age-verification/

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-privacy-surveillance

Google Pixel 10 Adds C2PA Support to Verify AI-Generated Media Authenticity https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/google-pixel-10-adds-c2pa-support-to.html

The iPhone 17 memory shield will give spyware developers a hard time https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/09/11/the-iphone-17-memory-shield-will-give-spyware-developers-a-hard-time

Tip of the Week: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/find-old-accounts-part-2/ 

Further Info

Fight Chat Control in EU: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ 

ARC opt out: https://www2.arccorp.com/site-privacy-policy/#17 

LinkedIn privacy settings to change: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/linkedin-change-of-tos-opt-out-before-november-3rd/31199 

Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/ 

Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity: https://c2pa.org/ 

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support our mission! https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

Get your Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Merch! https://fdsd.me/merch 

Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:00:23: Few PSA's

0:03:37: News preview

0:05:35: EU's Chat Control vote coming soon

0:10:46: Samsung smart fridges to start showing ads

0:16:17: New automated sextortion malware

0:21:24: A third of UK companies spy on employees

0:25:51: Airlines sell 5B records for warrantless searches

0:31:44: ICE signs $3M contract for phone hacking tool

0:34:08: ChatGPT to guess your age or require ID

0:38:11: New Swiss law would uncut user privacy

0:42:46: Google Pixel 10 Adds C2PA Support

0:45:50: iPhone 17 adds killer new security feature

0:51:27: Tip of the Week

1:02:03: A note on upcoming shows

1:03:30: Looking ahead

1:04:53: My other stuff

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the Big Tech buzzword of the day. Every company who wants investment (public or private) is scrambling to have an "AI story", adding chatbots and 'agentic' features in their products wherever possible. The AI companies themselves are constantly expanding their models, ingesting as much data (including highly personal information) as possible. In this AI gold rush, companies are making flawed and often harmful products. Companies are firing workers and trying to replace them with AI bots. And it's forcing us all to question what's real, what has actual value, and what the impacts could and should be on society as a whole. Discussing deep questions like this is the purview of philosophers - and today I'll be welcoming back someone uniquely and supremely qualified to address them, Carissa Véliz.

Interview Notes

Carissa Véliz: https://www.carissaveliz.com/ 

Privacy is Power: https://www.carissaveliz.com/books 

Carissa’s research: https://www.carissaveliz.com/research 

Moral Zombies: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-021-01189-x 

ChatGPT suicide: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html 

TESCREAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL 

John Oliver on AI Slop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc 

Proton Lumo: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai 

EU’s “public good” LLM: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html 

Further Info

My book: https://fdsd.me/book 

My newsletter: https://fdsd.me/newsletter 

Support the mission: https://fdsd.me/support 

Give the gift of privacy and security: https://fdsd.me/coupons 

Get your Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Merch! https://fdsd.me/merch 

Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:05:09: What does "artifical intelligence" really mean?

0:13:21: Should STEM degrees require ethics training?

0:17:20: Does anthropomorphising AI undermine our discourse?

0:22:35: What is the TESCREAL view of AI?

0:28:09: Can we infuse AI tools with human morality?

0:34:31: What are the dangers of training AI on copyrighted works?

0:42:16: What happens when AI starts ingesting it's own output?

0:44:27: Can we make AI systems that are truly private?

0:48:08: How should we assign liability for AI harms?

0:51:06: Is AI eroding our ability to trust anything?

0:54:06: What happens when AI obviates the need to work at all?

1:00:00: How do we maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of AI?

1:03:20: Interview wrap-up

1:06:06: Patron podcast preview

1:07:08: Looking ahead

The next step in reducing our digital footprint is to identify all of our online accounts, including the long forgotten and unused ones. The easiest place to start is by using the tool we should already have: our password manager. By its very nature, it contains a list of all our accounts. You may have used your browser to remember your passwords, or you may have some other method... but it's time to move to a real password manager.

In other news: update your Android devices ASAP; Android malware spreading via Facebook ads; Google to make it harder to sideload Android apps; dashcam company cloud storage hacked; Anthropic to train model based on your chats; OpenAI sharing some GPT chats with law enforcement; ChatGPT getting parental controls after teen suicide; Microsoft Word will auto-save to OneDrive; Chrome VPN extension caught taking screenshots of sites you visit; US tells BigTech not to comply with DSA; and Flock pauses work with federal agencies.

Article Links

This Android Malware Is Spreading Through Facebook Ads https://lifehacker.com/tech/this-android-malware-is-spreading-using-meta-ads

Android Is Making It More Difficult to Sideload Apps https://lifehacker.com/tech/android-is-making-it-more-difficult-to-sideload-apps

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In https://www.404media.co/this-company-turns-dashcams-into-virtual-cctv-cameras-then-hackers-got-in/

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/767507/anthropic-user-data-consumers-ai-models-training-privacy

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement https://futurism.com/people-furious-openai-reporting-police

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-announces-parental-controls-for-chatgpt-after-teen-suicide-lawsuit/

Microsoft Word now autosaves to OneDrive. Is your data safe? https://proton.me/blog/microsoft-word-autosave-onedrive-default

Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit https://cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-extension-with-100k-installs-screenshots-all-sites-users-visit/

Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-companies-in-the-us-have-been-told-not-to-apply-the-digital-services-act/

License-plate reader company pauses work with federal agencies after backlash https://therecord.media/flock-license-plate-reader-pauses-federal-work

Tip of the Week: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/find-old-accounts-part-1/ 

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Table of Contents

0:00:00: Intro

0:01:10: Update your Android devices

0:01:41: News preview

0:03:38: Android malware spread via Facebook ads

0:06:49: Android is making it harder to sideload apps

0:12:16: "Virtual CCTV" dashcam company is hacked

0:18:01: Anthropic to train AI based on your chats

0:22:33: OpenAI sharing some GPT chats with law enforcement

0:26:46: OpenAI accounces parental controls after teen suicide

0:33:41: Microsoft Word now autosaves to OneDrive

0:40:36: Chrome VPN extension screenshots sites you visit

0:45:18: US tells BigTech not to comply with DSA

0:51:08: Flock pauses work with federal agencies

0:53:38: Tip of the Week

1:01:22: Patron podcast preview

1:01:55: Looking ahead