Episode Description: Sudo breaks down the massive security update coming to The Tor Project. We talk Surveillance Pricing—how companies use your battery life, location, and device type to charge you more for the same products. Plus, we look at the spies in your living room: Smart Speakers and Smart TVs. Learn how ACR watches what you watch, and how Amazon Sidewalk shares your connection.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• The Tor Project: How onion routing works and the new Counter Galois Onion encryption.
• Surveillance Pricing: Why Mac users get charged more.
• ISP Disparities: Internet providers giving worse deals to specific neighborhoods.
• App Defense: Using Web Apps (PWAs) instead of native apps to stop tracking.
• Smart Home Spies: The privacy cost of smart speakers.
• The TV is Watching: ACR and Vizio’s business model.
• Network Defense: Using NextDNS and PiHole to block smart devices from phoning home.
• Law Enforcement: How Ring and smart speakers share data with police.

Featured Quote: "The TV is cheap because the hardware is just the bait. The real product is the data feed coming from your living room." — Sudo

Links and Resources Mentioned:

News and Articles:

• https://cyberpress.org/tor-network-switches-to-galois-onion/#:~:text=The%20Tor%20Project%20has%20announced,Counter%20Galois%20Onion%20(CGO
• https://consumerwatchdog.org/privacy/new-report-details-how-companies-use-surveillance-to-charge-different-prices-for-the-same-item/
• https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2022/10/19/how-we-uncovered-disparities-in-internet-deals https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/wtf-is-automatic-content-recognition/
• https://www.cnet.com/home/security/amazons-ring-cameras-push-deeper-into-police-and-government-surveillance/

Privacy Tools and Links:

• https://www.torproject.org/

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