Personal assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Alexa can be very helpful, but they have to be able to hear what you hear when you wake them up. Now, Amazon has changed the way its “Alexa” program works, and everything it hears will be sent to Amazon. There have been problems with how this information is used, and there are serious …
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If you have a cellphone on you, you can be tracked — where you go, and when you go, and how long you stay there. This is because cellphones all have a unique ID code, and the apps on your phone can access that code…if you let them. Here’s a quick overview of how this works and what you can …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDigital Assistants can be anywhere, are getting to be everywhere, and can be turned on when nobody realizes it. Ordinary language mistaken for a “wake word” can mean your privacy has just disappeared. Here’s what to watch out for. [English Majors: I dangled that participle deliberately. So …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:18 — 41.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn March of 2014 it was reported that the National Security Agency had aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives – codenamed TURBINE – to “allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFacebook has been having security and privacy problems, and people are wondering if it’s safe. Some are even trying to quit; here’s how to go cold turkey. Better Beware is produced by Rich Fish at WFHB’s studios in Bloomington, Indiana.
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMore online worries: scammers have figured out how to impersonate your friends… and internet companies are giving away your information to the government.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:17 — 54.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week on Interchange, host Joe Crawford speaks with Indiana University Law Professor Fred Cate, an expert on privacy and “cybersecurity”. Cate talks about government surveillance on the local, state and national levels – from the spying apparatus at the National Security Agency, to cell phone intercepts …
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