Episodes
https://youtu.be/VaUsJvUMUgE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/OSINT-photos:8 Every picture and video you post spills secrets about you, maybe even revealing where you live. The process of connecting all these dots of our online activities is a practice known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. It's the practice of using all the information available online such as public records, reviews we write, email addresses, usernames, location check ins, and social media, to link together...
Published 04/19/24
https://youtu.be/C0CyuDEuLsE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Financial-surveillance:e Financial privacy has practically vanished over the last 50 years. Most people are in denial about it, and still believe that their relationship with their bank or their credit union is confidential -- the reality couldn’t be further from that. In this video we walk you through the history of how financial privacy slowly disappeared, and how we built a gargantuan financial surveillance system that...
Published 04/05/24
https://youtu.be/0RhCrb8OCjw https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Impact-of-surveillance:b The current state of privacy is bad. Surveillance today is pervasive, and the effects of this surveillance on the fabric of society is profound. We need to make sure we’re fully aware of the consequences of creating a world without privacy. If we want to reclaim privacy in the digital age, the answer is not to throw out our devices, it’s to truly embrace technology, and leverage all the new,...
Published 03/24/24
https://youtu.be/_0EiqiPuR4Q https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Little-Snitch:7 Our computers constantly talk to servers across the internet without us realizing, sharing information about our activities. Most of us don't even realize how many programs are silently connecting to the internet and sharing data. It usually happens without our explicit consent. But we can block these connections. On Mac, you can use a program called Little Snitch. In this video we look at the data is...
Published 03/08/24
https://youtu.be/n_kTzu8NEyg https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Back-up-Photos-privately:7 Photos these days usually stay in digital form. Sometimes we back them up to the cloud for safekeeping: but who is getting access to your sensitive images when you do so? In this video we look at the built-in photo backup options on iPhone and Android, and how private they really are. We also explore more private backup solutions, and how to set them up to happen automatically so that you never...
Published 02/24/24
https://youtu.be/rOtMGJVp2MU https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/decentralized-storage:6 We put a lot of trust in cloud storage providers, presuming that they’ll keep our data safe. But what if they're hacked? Or their servers go down? Or what if they decide to just kick us out of our accounts, and we lose all our emails, files, contacts, photos... There's another big problem with centralizing all our storage on a single platform: it turns out the whole world is doing it. Most of the...
Published 02/10/24
https://youtu.be/RyirQOCUUK8 https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Calyx:7 Your phone is more than just a communication tool; it’s a powerful tracking device, and the SIM card inside is a key reason why. I don’t actually have a SIM card in any of my phones, and in this video I’ll explain the reasons why. I’ll also talk about alternative ways that you can still have connectivity on the go without a SIM in your phone, and I’ll dive into the downsides of not having a SIM in your...
Published 01/26/24
https://youtu.be/eR7D6Fx0fTQ https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Privacy-in-the-Digital-Age:1 Many of us don't fully grasp the importance of privacy for a free society. We allow total invasion of our privacy, making a bet that we and those in power will stay on good terms, so this data will never be used against us. But as Snowden said, regimes come and go, social norms change, but that data is forever. Privacy is not a tool for criminals, as many would have you believe. It's essential...
Published 01/14/24
https://youtu.be/80gv6opFy3o https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Santa:e9f The holidays are upon us, and it's time to ask some SERIOUS questions: Why do we allow Santa to spy on us through the year to see if we're being good or bad? Why do we allow him to dictate the behavior of our children?? In our final video of the year, we explore the history of Santa’s inter-generational ploy to extend his unnatural life through the collection of our data. We also give you suggestions for how to...
Published 12/24/23
https://youtu.be/A9DPDE0FZeQ https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/location-tracking:7 Our phones are complex devices that leak our location in countless ways. We explain 3 essential settings for protecting your location data: - Airplane Mode - Location Services - WiFi We dive into how they work and try to demystify location tracking, hopefully leaving you with a better understanding of how to use these tools in your privacy toolbox. 00:00 Do you know how to stop location...
Published 12/15/23
https://youtu.be/FDxv04k3Zg8 https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/tech-innovation:6 How technology can help us carve out more freedom in our daily lives NOW. 00:00 Crypto as one of the most potent tools for freedom we've ever seen 9:05 Can crypto and traditional finance coexist? 15:35 Importance of Financial Privacy 16:50 CBDCs and the dystopian future 22:15 Importance of Privacy in a free society 24:28 Have the tables of power already turned given all these decentralized...
Published 12/04/23
https://youtu.be/wg00QkcpOOM https://odysee.com/Graphene-Deep-dive:5818aefbaa107d89bc66e1dd196bbb8c8ccbcb73 Your phone is your portal to the digital world, where all kinds of sensitive activity happens. It's important to make sure your phone isn't leaking all this information about you, and the operating system you use makes a huge difference. Android and iOS collect a huge amount of data from you, so in previous videos we've explained how to instal GrapheneOS instead. In this video we dive...
Published 11/27/23
https://youtu.be/zH9LzC-djos https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Twiter-e2ee:d X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, rolled out "encrypted messages" this year! We explain how to use it, who is eligible, but we also dive into the nitty gritty of how this encryption has been implements, and why we don't think you should trust it for anything sensitive. There are better E2EE messaging apps out there. 00:00 X introduces Encrypted Messaging 02:53 How to Send Encrypted Messages on...
Published 11/15/23
https://youtu.be/V2WrDZnk33g https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Strava-v6-LBRY:b Fitness apps help us keep track of our health, but they're also a privacy nightmare. If you're not careful with how you use it, it can even put you in danger. In this video we explore how they leak all kinds of information about us, how malicious actors scrape data from these apps to target people’s locations, and we look at their hidden settings that you might not realize are turned on. 00:00 Intro 01:05...
Published 11/04/23
https://youtu.be/y4brX6x3mrM https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Keyboard-privacy:1 How private is your phone keyboard? Smartphones allow us to intimately communicate, do sensitive work, and access the world around us by tapping on a screen: The gateway to this world is the keyboard. It’s where we type our searches, our credit card details, our passwords. You'd better hope the keyboard you're using is private, and not sending off your keystrokes somewhere else. In this video we dive...
Published 10/25/23
https://youtu.be/eIryvRwxp9A https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Car-Tracking:7 It's worse than you realize. In this video we dive into all the types of data your car is collecting about you: from video footage, microphone recordings, location data, biometrics, all the way to files/contacts/photos ingested from your phone! 00:00 Cars are NO place for a private conversation! 02:11 What data is our car collecting? 05:41 Video footage 06:16 Microphones 08:09 Location 08:40 There's a SIM...
Published 10/15/23
https://youtu.be/HYAQYbE63wo https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Creating-a-better-internet:9 The internet has fundamentally transformed the way we communicate and access information. But while it lifts us up, it has also become the most potent enabler of totalitarian surveillance that the world has ever seen. In this talk, I explore the privacy implications of our growing digital world, and the kind of future we are paving the way towards. I also dive into what we can do today to try...
Published 10/05/23
https://youtu.be/OR8SmnVSLCg https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Youre-a-target:a "I'm not important, why would anyone target me?" The internet is a war zone filled with people actively trying to scrape all of your data and attack you with scams. But you're not being singled out: Scammers target everyone. They're indiscriminate, and you will inevitably fall into their wide net. In this video I explain how perceiving yourself as a low-value target actually makes you an ideal target for...
Published 09/25/23
https://youtu.be/b0d90ul4ELE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/data-brokers-ruin-lives:d Data brokers are like invisible digital packrats, silently harvesting every piece of data about us that they can find. But the information provided by data brokers isn’t always correct. This is a problem because it's often heavily relied on by law enforcement as evidence, without being independently verified. In this video, hacker and researcher Ghost Exodus explains how his life took a dramatic...
Published 09/16/23
https://youtu.be/rtRQKQkvUfE https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Telegram:68 Telegram advertises itself as a private messaging app, and has attracted over 800 million users. But Telegram is one of the last apps I'd recommend if you're looking for private communication. In this video we explain how encryption actually works on Telegram: how it's not possible to end-to-end encrypt group chats, and how direct messages are not private by default. There are also some red flags about their...
Published 09/05/23
https://youtu.be/GQHutNQVLgw https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Data-Brokers:b Data brokers know a lot about us. They silently harvest any information they can find, by purchasing information, using trackers, scraping social media, ingesting data breaches. They compile this information into databases, and sell access so that others can sift through the most private and sensitive areas of our lives. In this video we pull back the curtain on a largest player in this industry -...
Published 08/26/23
https://youtu.be/tIr9GfCtd9U https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Private-Transactions:b Financial privacy is essential for a free society, because it allows us to support causes we believe in without fear of retribution, to flee dangerous situations without being tracked, to live our daily lives without feeling like every choice we make is on display and needs to be self-censored. How can we have a truly free society if the way we interact with the world around us is constantly...
Published 08/17/23
https://youtu.be/c-bDpZoG--w https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/pfsense-deep-dive:5 Consumer grade routers are like leaky boats. But you can beef up your setup using things like the pfSense open source router and firewall software. In previous videos we've looks specifically at DNS settings, and programs like "Unbound" within pfSense. While these grant you granular control over your home network, they can also be confusing. This video dives deeper into "Unbound", the DNS resolver on...
Published 08/05/23
https://youtu.be/pURzvhYQ2FQ https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/DNS-Blocklists:3 These days, trackers infiltrate nearly every webpage. Advertisements demand your attention and monitor your online movements. Your own devices and software send telemetry back to manufacturers and developers, leaking all kinds of information about your activities. DNS blocklists can help you regain control over your network traffic. They can stop your devices from ever connecting to certain data tracking...
Published 07/27/23