(professional Network Security Analyst & Master of Information
Security) is our featured guest.
computers become publicly available, and are as powerful as we are
told they will be, all of everyone's past encrypted secrets will be
revealed to anyone who wishes to read them--emails, banking
transactions, Silk
Road purchases, the entire Darknet, and any money
laundering hidden within the bitcoin blockchain.
Future encryptions will be secure (at least for a while) but every
previously encrypted file and document that is findable on the
Internet will be laid bare. If you have ever done something that
you shouldn't, and you are counting on encryption to keep your
secret forever, you need to think again.
computer hacking on the TV show Mr.
Robot; methods hackers use to get your password; how little
protection is provided by a fully encrypted hard drive; and why the
hardest part of the computer security profession is "securing
the browser named Opera has announced that it will include VPN
(virtual private network) as a default feature, and so your
host speculates that this may soon prompt ALL browsers to include
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the April 27, 2016 episode
of
The Future And You. [Running time: 35 minutes]
Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work
as an author, futurist, magazine writer, ghostwriter,
and award-winning podcaster. A contributing editor
for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a
regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim
Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he
spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor
for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. For the last ten
years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And
You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and
commentary) all the ways the future will be different from
today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer,
transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat
Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future
entitled: Indistinguishable
from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future