This interview dives deep with Dallas, the owner of PrivacyPost.io, to explore the world of secure mail forwarding in the US. We'll unpack the complexities of CMRA vs. residential addresses, the growing importance of end-to-end encryption, and how PrivacyPost caters to digital nomads, RVers, and anyone seeking enhanced privacy with some clever South Dakota workflows! Guest information: PrivacyPost: https://privacypost.io WorldPost: https://worldpost.io — Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:42 Guest...

Join us for an exclusive interview with Vishnu Mohandas, the visionary founder of Ente, a revolutionary photo app that prioritizes privacy. In this insightful conversation, we delve into the challenges and triumphs of building a privacy-first photo app, exploring topics like the birth of Ente, its unique approach to privacy, cutting-edge AI features, and the future of photo storage and sharing. Guest information: Vishnu Mohandas: https://vishnu.tech/ Ente: https://ente.io — Timestamps: 00:00...

Owning (or renting!) privately is a challenge, and Jonathan Steele is a lawyer who will break it down for us. Is renting more private than owning a home? How do celebrities do it? From Trusts, LLCs, Nominee agreements, plausible deniability, the legality of privacy tools, and so much more to help non-legal experts understand the complex world of privacy in the legal system. Jonathan Steele is a practicing lawyer who answers many questions for us! Steele Fortress:...

Welcoming back for the second time...Abdullah Attah from Notesnook to discuss his open source note-taking solution, how they function behind-the-scenes, upcoming features, long-term sustainability, and more! — Timestamps: 00:00:00 Video intro 00:01:00 Abdullah and Notesnook introduction 00:01:48 What's new for Notesnook since we last spoke? 00:03:34 Where is Notesnook based out of? Jurisdiction? 00:04:36 Where is user data stored? 00:05:22 New Privacy features in Notesnook v3 00:11:02 New...

Episode #20. New research with evidence that some data removal services are not effective! Let's unpack the research, talk about the results, and what it means for those of you wanting control of their data. We also discuss Proton Wallet, Monero & Mobilecoin delistings, and a lot more! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 0:00:00 Introducing Techlore Talks 20! 0:00:50 Explaining data removal research 0:12:53 Data Removal Services we've used 0:18:34 Exploring new solutions for...

Synology just held their event in Taiwan for 2024 releasing E2EE security cameras without a required subscription, Active Protect for enterprise customers, AI features, and more! Thanks to Synology for flying us out, and thanks you all for watching! YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a05my9OegME — Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Start of interview 01:00 Event recap 02:20 Prosumer Highlights 04:30 AI Requirements 05:30 AI De-identification 06:50 Backup solutions...

Episode #19. Computex, Synology, Apple, AI, and more catching up on Techlore Talks! It's been a while since the last podcast episode and we're excited to be back for episode 19! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Taiwan/Computex Adventures with AI 08:20 Synology Event Recap 19:28 Apple WWDC 34:44 Final Words — Techlore Talks: Video Playlist RSS Feed — Techlore Links: Homepage Techlore Forum Go Incognito Course Support Techlore! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

In this interview, we chat with Hanna Bozakov, press officer at Tuta (formerly Tutanota), a leading secure email service provider. Dive deep into the world of end-to-end encryption, user privacy, and how Tuta fights for your right to communicate confidentially. — Timestamps: 00:00 Coming up 00:31 Introduction 00:58 Guest introduction 01:35 What is Tuta’s origin story? 05:51 What is the issue with Gmail? 08:15 What are the challenges with email? 10:20 Is there a benefit to using Tuta with non...

Welcoming back John Ozbay on Techlore Talks for Part 2 of discussing many important digital rights concepts! Progressive Web Apps, new features, properly educating users, toxicity in the privacy community, Cryptee's professional target demographic, and what's next for Cryptee! John is an old interview favorite and we're thrilled to have him back on! — Timestamps: 00:00 Interview Intro 00:58 PWAs, educating users, new features, and more! 12:20 Toxicity in the privacy community & what needs...

Techlore Talks Interview: Welcoming back John Ozbay on Techlore Talks for Part 1 of discussing many important digital rights concepts! The unexpected challenges of developing open source software, finding & reporting vulnerabilities, security of big tech companies like Google/Apple, progressive web apps, new EU tech developments with the DMA, marketing in privacy, and so much more! John is an old interview favorite and we're thrilled to have him back on! — Timestamps: 00:00:00 Interview...

Techlore Talks Interview: James Sundquist, a volunteer community manager and documentation manager for NextcloudPi. NextcloudPi is a preinstalled, preconfigured Nextcloud instance to make Nextcloud easier to use! Join us as we talk about data ownership, Nextcloud, privacy and security. — Timestamps: 00:00 Interview Preview 01:08 About James & About NextcloudPi 03:04 The Nextcloud Conference! 03:58 Options for NextcloudPi Installation 07:26 Nextcloud Privacy & Security 10:26 Future of...

Episode #18. Apple's unexpected response to Europe's DMA, sideloading, default web browsers, more browser engines, and more! Apple really dropped the ball and showed everyone their cards. Jonah's Blog: https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/apple-is-incredibly-salty-about-the-digital-markets-act/ Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Intro to Apple DMA 01:05 Alternative App Stores / 'Sideloading' 11:55 Alternative browser engines... 17:00 Option for third-party browsers 19:32 Apple's...

Episode #17. What are backdoors? How should we define them? What is spyware? Google privacy sandbox & Manifest v3, and more! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 What are backdoors, intentional vs non-intentional? 14:26 How do we define spyware? What's the issue of calling everything spyware? 20:42 Wickr Died, & no one cares? 22:48 Google's 'Privacy' Sandbox & Manifest v3 27:58 Is it harmful when companies advertise 'privacy'? 34:48 Facebook's E2EE vs Telegram's...

Episode #16. The government collects data & metadata from Apple & Google push notifications, exciting announcements from the Tor Project, Simple Tools sold out, my involvement at the Bitwarden open source security conference, and more! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Government spying on push notifications 16:06 Tor Project Announcements 23:14 Simple Tools Sells Out 28:50 Henry Bitwarden Conference Talk — Techlore Talks: Video Playlist RSS Feed — Techlore...

Episode #15. Apple dealing with green messages via RCS and what it means for you, Signal messenger usernames, accusations against Tuta (previously Tutanota), and more! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:04 Apple RCS, E2EE, security, and more! 05:08 Signal usernames and other signal discussions 09:04 Final iMessage chats & contact key verification 11:54 Accusations against Tuta 18:16 Sending love to the brilliant people behind services 19:28 Hidden Signal...

Techlore Talks Interview: Matthias Kirschner, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. Welcoming Matthias on Techlore Talks to discuss the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) and how they are empowering the future of free & open source software! — Timestamps: 00:00 Introductions 01:04 Arthur's History with PrivacyTests, Tor, Firefox, & Brave 06:26 Was privacytests.org always open source? How does he test? 07:52 What's the scope of the tests run? Why and how does he run...

Episode #14. Several Google stories, other privacy discussions, and a live Q&A for this Techlore Talks Join our Forum Our Patreon — Techlore Talks: Video Playlist RSS Feed — Techlore Links: Homepage Techlore Forum Go Incognito Course Support Techlore! Get full access to Techlore Dispatch at dispatch.techlore.tech/subscribe

Episode #13. Google Pixel event w/ 7 years of security updates, Nextcloud's conference, Punkt Pigeon update, Element X, Tailscale x Mullvad, and a lot more! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Quick Intro 00:18 Google Event Highlights for Us 04:20 My Experience @Nextcloud conference 05:54 Punkt Pigeon Update + Minimal Device workflows 09:50 Element X Matrix Client 10:28 New Tailscale/Mullvad Integration 13:38 Privacy is not just about private software 18:18 Google's lackluster...

Episode #12. It's been a couple months and we wanted to start with some recent positive privacy news. We also cover tons of other events like Google removing saved links, Debian turning 30, Punkt, Signal, app store malware, Red Hat, and more! Join our Forum Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Some positive privacy wins! 07:50 Google removing saved links? 09:50 Issues with cloud providers and how they can screw you over. 11:36 Debian turned 30! 13:03 Punkt, Signal, Matrix, and...

Techlore Talks Interview: Arthur Edelstein, developer of the browser privacy tool privacytests.org. Welcoming Arthur on Techlore Talks to to chat about his open source browser testing tool, his history with web browser development, privacy & security of web browsers, the future of web browsers, and a lot more! — Timestamps: 00:00 Introductions 01:04 Arthur's History with PrivacyTests, Tor, Firefox, & Brave 06:26 Was privacytests.org always open source? How does he test? 07:52 What's...

Episode #11. Front-ends and third-party services still dependent on big tech companies are falling like flies - Reddit, Twitter, Invidious, Aurora - here's why and what we need to do about it! We also discuss Debian 12, Proton's (insane!) marketing, and Techlore Clips. — Timestamps: 0:00:00 Setting the Scene 0:00:58 How Reddit threatened every client & bot 0:12:28 How YouTube threatened Invidious 0:20:50 How Google threatened Aurora 0:28:58 What needs to happen to make this stop 0:36:58...

Episode #10. All Apple privacy & security updates from WWDC 2023 and more! As well as some BTS on our recent Synology review, and how we're managing our forum. Join our Forum Jonah's New Channel Our Patreon — Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome to TT10 00:38 Apple's WWDC 2023 01:04 Safari's New Privacy Protections 01:24 iOS/iPadOS Photo Permission Revamp? 02:28 Communication Safety Scanning 06:28 Passkey Sharing via iCloud Keychain 09:24 Lockdown Mode Improvements 12:16 Safari Profiles & WEB...

Techlore Talks Interview: Jón von Tetzchner, CEO of the web browser Vivaldi. Welcoming Jón on Techlore Talks to chat about privacy, security, history of Vivaldi, control, open source, federation, and a lot more! — Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introductions 00:00:56 About Jón & Vivaldi Browser 00:02:00 History of Opera Browser & Vivaldi 00:04:13 Opera and Vivaldi Philosophy Differences 00:06:26 Vivaldi Browser in Cars 00:09:16 Vivaldi's Target Audience 00:12:25 Vivaldi's Business...

Google Authenticator's new (meme-worthy) sync functionality, some updates to the privacy/security of security keys like Yubikeys, our experiences so far with Proton Pass, and more! 00:00 Google Authenticator's Cringe Update 08:29 Story behind our recent Yubikey review 09:59 Is keeping security keys plugged in insecure? 14:58 Are security keys a privacy concern? 18:37 Insight into our Proton review 20:53 Proton Pass First Thoughts! 29:00 Brave Search Goes 100% independent 35:21 On AI 40:00...