Eva Galperin: Stalkerware, Surveillance, and Real-World Harm

Eva Galperin explains how stalkerware, ordinary phone access, coercion, and weak privacy defaults can let someone close create devastating real-world harm.In this episode, we cover:What stalkerware is and why hiding from the user mattersWhy intimate-partner abuse changes the cybersecurity threat modelPrivacy as consent and control, not isolationWhy end-to-end encryption is not magic if the endpoint is compromisedPassword managers, VPN myths, patching, and backupsWhat security teams miss when they only focus on exotic adversariesGuest: Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.Resources:EFF Surveillance Self-Defense: https://ssd.eff.org/Coalition Against Stalkerware: https://stopstalkerware.org/