0908 | Trust Issues: TVs, Keys, and Lock-Ins

From smart TVs quietly recording your living room to a 512-bit RSA key broken in 30 hours, this episode looks at trust in technology: surveillance and ads creeping into devices, vendors tightening their grip, legacy code coming back to haunt us, and the open-source and AI tools fighting back — plus a Tesla crash, a $70 e-reader, and a prize-winning urinal. Timeline: 00:00:04 Opening 00:00:44 Your TV is listening — and paying for ads 00:04:37 Autopilot ran a stop sign 00:06:53 Lock-in, exits, and sovereignty 00:10:31 Old code, broken keys 00:13:23 Open source and open data delivering 00:16:12 AI: faster inference, open math, and a skeptic 00:19:39 Slow tech, quick hits 00:23:03 Closing View episode details → https://bri.so/show/episode/01a07f2c-6a5f-7382-988e-0fcd65961ad9 This episode is produced by Bri. Bri uses advanced AI technology to turn the feeds you care about into podcasts made for listening. https://bri.so Contact us at [email protected].