The Good Problem

Today's episode features the amazing Eva Galperin, and we're talking about stalkerware, surveillance and Tik Tok.⁠ ⁠

Back in 2018, Eva tweeted "“If you are a woman who has been sexually abused by a hacker who threatened to compromise your devices, contact me and I will make sure they are properly examined”. ⁠ ⁠

Her tweet was retweeted more than 10,000 times, and she was inundated with responses from people who had experienced abuse.⁠ ⁠

We talk about her work to eradicate stalkerware, and what she's working on in her role heading up the Threat Lab at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Eva is Electronic Frontier Foundation's Director of Cybersecurity. Prior to 2007, Eva worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. ⁠ ⁠ Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organising EFF's Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan. When she is not collecting new and exotic malware, she practices aerial circus arts and learning new languages.⁠ ⁠

Follow Eva on Twitter @evacide

Eva is reading 'A Distant Mirror' by Barbara Tuckman (2017) Penguin Books. & 'The Neuromancer Trilogy' by William Gibson

Eva is listening to 'Homecooking' with Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway.

Joining me for a bonus episode today is Dr. Jessica Kaufman from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. We're chatting about Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison's recent announcement about a potential COVID-19 vaccination, and his statement that the vaccine would be "as mandatory as you could possibly make it".

Jess and I discuss the ethical implications of rushing a vaccine with unknown effects, and what would be required to make a vaccine ethically defensible.

Will a vaccine be the golden ticket for travel, employment, or even access to restaurants, child care or school?

Dr. Jessica Kaufman is a Research Fellow at Murdoch Children's Research Institute and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. You can find her on Twitter @jessicajkaufman

Jess is reading Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Jess is listening to the Bang On podcast with Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe

Today on the Good Problem Podcast we have the amazing Nic Holas talking about the evolution of HIV activism.⁠

Nic is a queer activist, writer and the co-founder of The Institute of Many, an advocacy platform and grassroots movement for people living with HIV. ⁠In addition to his work with The Institute of Many, Nic is the Campaigns Director at Change.org and his writing on HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQA issues, law reform, and human rights has appeared in the ABC, Archer Magazine, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, SBS, Hello Mr., The Lifted Brow, and Junkee, as well as in international and local queer media. He has been a frequent guest on current affairs TV and radio, including appearances on Q&A, Lateline, Radio National, and Triple J. Nic has also worked extensively in media and communications for non-profits and digital agencies, as a political policy writer, and as an artist.

Today's episode features...me! In a departure from regular programming, i've put together a short episode on child sex trafficking to help provide some objective facts around the issue. There's been a huge surge in interest in this issue recently, accompanied by a significant increase in information being shared across social media platforms.

While this issue is of vital importance, it's important to recognise that child sex trafficking has been prevalent for much of our history, and there are many incredible organisations working to address this issue using well established, child-focused interventions that have been tested and are measured.

For more information see www.ecpat.org

Today's episode features Jon Cornejo from the advocacy organisation, Charity So White which exists to tackle institutional racism in the charity sector. Jon and I talk about the importance of shifting the conversation to power and privilege instead of diversity and inclusion and how these structures and cultures actually reinforce inequality in the sector.

Jon is a campaigner and activist who also works with Save the Children UK, leading campaigning and organising work on the Protecting Children in Conflict campaign. He has previously worked with Amnesty International UK where he led campaigns in response to human rights crises. Throughout his career, he has worked with other people of colour to highlight issues of systemic racism and push leaders to tackle institutional racism in their own organisations.

Follow Charity So White on Twitter @CharitySoWhite

Jon is reading Woman Who Glows In The Dark by Elena Avila

Jon is listening to the Radio Menea podcast

Correction: In the episode Leigh Mathews mentions 'forced' Covid testing of residents of Victoria's housing commission flats. We would like to clarify that no residents were forced to be tested, however testing was required to ensure the lockdown was lifted.

Today's episode features Tyson Yunkaporta: academic, author, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan with community and cultural ties all over the country. Tyson is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - an incredible book that shares indigenous ways of thinking that respect the complexity of the world we live in and finds ways to communicate this knowledge through pictures, carvings and stories. Tyson uses Sand Talk - which honours the Aboriginal custom of drawing images on the ground to bring clarity to complexity, and asks: what would happen if we applied indigenous thinking to the immense social and environmental problems our world faces today.

Tyson also carves traditional tools and weapons, and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Find out more about Tyson here.

Tyson is reading: The Song of Mavin Manyshaped, by Sheri Tepper

Tyson is listening to: The Douglas Rushkoff Podcast and the Jim Rutt Show

This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners and true sovereigns of the land.  Despite the impact of European Invasion we acknowledge their deep understanding and connection to country and rich cultural knowledge. We acknowledge and pay respect to their elders and elders of indigenous communities across the world.

Today's episode of The Good Problem Podcast features the amazing Clementine Ford. We chat about power, privilege and feminism in the context of doing good. ⁠We also discuss her recent tweet about coronavirus and what it means to make mistakes.⁠

⁠Clementine is a freelance writer, speaker and feminist thinker. Her books, Fight Like A Girl, and Boys Will Be Boys radically challenge issues of men's violence against women, rape culture and gender warfare in Australia. ⁠

⁠If you haven't read her books, please - go read them! ⁠

Clementine is reading: Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid, and The Mothers, by Britt Bennett

Clementine is listening to: Seeing White, by Scene on Radio and Men, by Scene on Radio

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Today Nathan Parker and I talk about the COVID-19 crisis in the United States. We chat about why we haven't learned from past disasters, and how the development of a distributed digital infrastructure can help better coordinate the response and create a greater resilience for future disasters.

Nathan is a problem solver and man of many talents - you can find him working on many projects, as well as for Uncompromise.

Nathan is reading The Peripheral by William Gibson

Nathan is listening to The Dollop Podcast

Today on the Good Problem Podcast we have the amazing Emily Braucher of ReFresh Communication talking cross cultural communication and how important it is to listen to those we are working with.⁠

I loved this chat with Emily, and I love this topic - I could talk about it for days on end! So much goes wrong because we consistently look at, and hear things through our own cultural lenses. It's not deliberate, but it can be very harmful and downright dangerous in some cases (there's been a few cases of plane crashes and near misses due to cultural misunderstandings).

Emily has worked, volunteered, researched and traveled in over 30 countries including two years of service in the US Peace Corps, She supports diverse clientele including non-profit staff, international business professionals, refugees, university students and high school students both domestically and abroad through her organisation, Refresh Communication.⁠ ⁠

Check out some of Emily's work here: https://www.refreshcommunication.com/trainings/cross-cultural-communication/

Emily is reading: Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy

Emily is listening to: On Being, by Krista Tippett

Today we have Part 2 of my episode with Professor Andrew MacLeod: corporate director, futurist, writer, speaker, humanitarian and traveller. Andrew and I unpack child sexual exploitation and abuse of children within the aid and international development sector, particularly within the United Nations. ⁠

⁠This episode offers a fascinating perspective on the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector. Find out more at www.heartheircries.org

⁠Andrew is listening to podcasts by The Economist.