The Recompiler Podcast
by Christie Koehler and Recompiler Media
Interviews and news about the technology industry, focusing on the voices of people from under-represented and marginalized groups.
Episodes
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Episode 75: Do we need to Faraday cage your office?
This episode we talk about Amazon’s AI recruiting fail, Wordpress accessibility issues, Google+ and more. https://recompilermag.com/2018/10/16/episode-75-do-we-need-to-faraday-cage-your-office Community Event Planning pre-order. Still time to get in on the book previews!...
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Episode 74: There is pumpkin spice in the air
This episode we talk about Chinese spy chips, new sophisticated voice phishing schemes, and Facebook’s huge security breach. https://recompilermag.com/2018/10/12/episode-74-there-is-pumpkin-spice-in-the-air Community Event Planning pre-order. Still time to get in on the book previews....
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Episode 73: A bold move
This episode we talk about moral clauses in FOSS licenses, ShotSpotter’s partnership with Verizon, how Buffer bought out its VCs, and WayMo. https://recompilermag.com/2018/10/11/episode-73-a-bold-move Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount...
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Episode 72: I’ve just confused myself
This episode we’re talking about Wickr’s use of domain-fronting and other anti-censorship techniques, HashWick vulnerability, Verizon throttling emergency responders data cellular connections, licensing shenanigans. https://recompilermag.com/2018/10/11/episode-72-ive-just-confused-myself…
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Episode 71: That sounds both interesting and ridiculous
This week Audrey and I chat about about Las Vegas Hotel security issues during DefCon, Foreshadow speculative execution vulnerability, and issues with the music industry business model and copyright. Complete show notes:...
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Episode 70: I see a bear!
This week Audrey and I chat about a security incident with Homebrew (the macOS package manager), Twitter’s refusal to moderate hate speech, and Firefox’s upcoming support of DNS over HTTP. Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/08/14/episode-70-i-see-a-bear [03:42] Devopsdays…
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Episode 69: We’ll just make a pickle grid
This week we’re talking about Reddit’s security breach, retail spearfishing indictments, ghost characters, and surveillance capitalism. Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/08/10/episode-69-well-just-make-a-pickle-grid [01:29] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 -...
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Episode 68: Celebrating Prime Day
This week we’re talking about the ethics of corporate research and how your data is used, Twitter's developer API changes, how Amazon Prime Day went, and more. Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/08/09/episode-68-celebrating-prime-day [01:08] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13,...
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Episode 67: Capital NO
This week Audrey and I chat about the compromised NPM package that stole a bunch of credentials, OSCON code of conduct issues, and Guido van Rossum stepping down abruptly from BDFL of Python. Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/08/08/episode-67-capital-no [01:52] Devopsdays…
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Episode 66: Season of Regrets
This week Audrey and I chat about the recent raid by German police against a privacy group, how Juggalos help beat facial recognition, and what Tim Berners-Lee is working on now to fix the web. Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/08/03/episode-66-season-of-regrets [01:39]…
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Episode 65: Right place, right time.
This week Audrey shares what she learned at this year’s Allied Media Conference in Detroit. [00:55] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount [02:45] The Recompiler Issue 8: Wildcard [03:58] Allied Media Conference [09:25] FemTechNet [14:58] Our Data Bodies...
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Episode 64: Now with tongue detection
This week Audrey and I chat about Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub, Apple’s WWDC announcements, why you may not want to engage in witness tampering using WhatsApp, and Tesla autopilot’s role in a fatal crash earlier this year....
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Episode 63: Everyone throws their computers out the window
This week Audrey and I chat about the new adaptive controller for the Xbox One, a new Spectre variant, Amazon’s facial recognition technology, and more. Enjoy! Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/06/03/episode-63-everyone-throws-their-computers-out-the-window [01:10] The…
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Episode 62: I miss that fail whale
This week Audrey and I chat about Ticketmaster and facial recognition, Google employees quitting in protest over the company’s participation in project Maven, Twitter’s latest attempt to clean up its platform, EFAIL PGP vulnerability, and more. Enjoy! Complete show notes:...
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Episode 61: San Marino showed up with robots!
This week Audrey and I chat about Google Duplex, Signal desktop issues, Medium’s continued floundering, and offensive hacking (“active defense”). Enjoy! Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/05/21/episode-61-san-marino-showed-up-with-robots [01:31] The Responsible Communication…
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Episode 60: It definitely involves ethics and society
This week Audrey and I chat about AI and predictive policing, domain fronting, how Facebook does a lot of emotional labor for us, and more! Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/05/14/episode-60-it-definitely-involves-ethics-and-society Links: [00:47] The Responsible Communication...
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Episode 59: We’re not looking to you to monetize the streets
This week Audrey and I chat about Gmail updates, a recent Microsoft counterfeiting case, mobile network spoofing with a VGA adapter, the Portland Smart Cities initiative, and more. Enjoy! Show notes [01:00] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers! – The…
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Episode 58: A whole lot more EULAs
This week Audrey and I chat about GDPR, Europe’s new privacy law about to go into effect and Facebook, the PenAir hack, Telegram, and a new tool law enforcement has to crack iPhone passcodes. Enjoy! Show notes [00:50] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers! – The...
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Episode 57: Do we have to do more Facebook?
This week Audrey and I chat about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress, the Fuse payment card hack, encrypted DNS, and more. Enjoy! Show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/04/20/episode-57-do-we-have-to-do-more-facebook [01:47] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is…
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Episode 56: Something about Scully’s vibrator
This week Audrey and I chat about recent autonomous vehicle fatalities, consequences of arbitrary file storage in Bitcoin’s blockchain, the OIG’s report on the FBI’s statements about their iPhone hacking capabilities, and more. Enjoy! Show notes [02:03] The Responsible Communication Style Guide…
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Episode 55: An ouroboros of crappy privacy
This week Audrey and I chat about Cambridge Analytica, anti-sex trafficking bill SESTA/FOSTA, Google News Initiative and more. Enjoy! [02:28] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers! [04:18] ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war...
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Episode 54: But this one involves a sheep!
This week Audrey and I chat about YouTube’s announcement to link to Wikipedia, the New Yorker’s profile of Reddit, Spotify and copyright law, and more. Enjoy! [03:53] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers! [06:36] Hire Christie! [07:06] YouTube didn’t tell...
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Episode 53: If a travel coffee mug and an Instapot had a baby
This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon Alexa’s laughing bug, Google helping the military develop AI for drones, the crypto event that dosed its attendees with cannabis, and more. Enjoy! [01:37] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers! [04:31] Issue 9: Hard...
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Episode 52: The yak’s given up. We’re both taking a break.
This week Audrey and I chat about Palantir's predictive policing activity in New Orleans, Trustico's mishandling of private keys, the recent DDOS attack on GitHub, ProPublica's guide to authenticating email, and more. Enjoy! [01:13] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The...
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Episode 51: I didn’t realize tweetdecking was a verb
This week Audrey and I chat about Twitter latest bot purge, infosec lawsuits, what the EFF says activists should keep in mind when using Slack, the magic of calendars, and more. Enjoy! [00:49] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler [01:47] Calagator 10th Anniversary...
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Episode 50: We already have many solutions for that
This week Audrey and I chat about AMP for Email, the legacy of JP Barlow, and the "House the Spied on Me." Enjoy! [03:55] Try Brave and support recompilermag.com [07:27] Issue 9: Hard problems – The Recompiler [08:05] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler [09:02]…
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Episode 49: Ottomottopoeia
This week Audrey and I chat about Waymo v Uber, Algorithmic Violence, and how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth. Enjoy! [00:57] Recompiler: Issue 9 (Hard Problems) [05:07] The Waymo v. Uber trial: greed, ambition, and robot cars - The Verge [07:41] Trade secret | Wex Legal Dictionary [17:39] How...
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Episode 48: Wouldn’t it be cool if we knew
This week Audrey and I chat about the Strava's heatmap, a newish iOS app called Verena, a new Amazon patent to track hand movements of warehouse workers, and how ICE now has a contract to access nationwide license plate recognition date. Enjoy! [01:44] Recompiler Issue 9: Hard Problems [05:32]...
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Episode 47: Legitimizing a Shoplifting-like Behavior
This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon's new grocery store, adversarial audio hacks, and Twitter's Russian Bot email. Enjoy! [02:18] Issue 9: Hard Problems [05:51] Amazon’s New Checkout-Free Grocery Store Doesn’t Take Food Stamps [19:52] Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a…
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Episode 46: Well, actually, we are tracking people
This week Audrey and I chat about the new selfie feature of Google's Arts & Culture app; vaporware products, arbitrage, and other strange aspects of global eCommerce; and discuss user consent and the web browser. Enjoy! - [02:13] "This google arts and culture app is pretty amazing.":...
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Episode 45: Web development is kind of horrifying
This week Audrey and I chat about the impact of Spectre and Meltdown, how easy it is to harvest credit cards numbers in the browser, and Kodak's new cryptocurrency. Enjoy! [01:26] What it looks like when you're neighborhood grocery store shuts down [06:02] Sams club closures [09:19] iPhone...
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Episode 44: Spectre & Meltdown
This week Audrey and I chat about Spectre and Meltdown. Enjoy! [10:17] Speculative Executive [41:09] Chrome site isolation [40:51] Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack (Mozilla Security) [44:29] Intel CEO sells crap ton of stock before Spectre and Meltdown made public [48:39] Google...
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Episode 43: 70 days, 9 hours
This week Audrey and I chat about algorithm accountability efforts in NYC, Reality Winner, sexual assault in the infosec community, and more. Content warnings for sexual assault are noted in the show notes in the relevant places, with timestamps so you can avoid those sections of the show if you...
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Episode 42: Usenet is still a thing!
This week Audrey and I chat about different efforts to preserve meaningful, community-oriented access to the web, a wild update to the Mirai botnet story, and more. Enjoy! [03:43] CFP Issue 10 Science [04:50] A Plan to Rescue the Web [22:28] Motherboard Building a Community Internet [27:33] A...
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Episode 41: We’ll never have a perfect mix but we’ll keep trying
This week Audrey and I talk about Bitcoin and it's monstrous power consumption, Patreon's fee changes, community broadband efforts, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 40: Travis Colonic?
This week Audrey and I talk about WayMo vs Uber, the surprising ways Expensify, and probably a lot of other web services are using Mechanical Turk, the recent macOS High Sierra vulnerability, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 39: Giving Something Away For Free For Fun
This week Audrey and I chat about Net Neutrality, the state of the Open Web, Facebook's latest bad behavior, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 38: Randomness and Predictability
This week Audrey and I chat about the KRACK WPA2 vulnerability, the technical skills of the judge in Oracle v Google, how Facebook is ruining our democracy, part 34, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 36: Maybe Skynet is just malware battling each other
This week Audrey and I chat about all things WannaCry, Google's tensor processing units, and Panic's stolen source code. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 35: Interview with Zara Rahman and Tom Walker
This week I chat with Zara Rahman (@zararah) and Tom Walker (@thomwithoutanh) from the Engine Room (@engnroom) about about the use of technology and data for social change. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 34: Info ops minus the geopolitics is just marketing
This week, Audrey and I chat about Uber's latest shenanigans, Facebook's report about "information operations" on its platform, the creepy Amazon Look and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 33: Interview with SE Hackney
This week I chat with SE Hackney about data sousveillance, what the documentation practices of online communities tell us about those communities and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 32: Let me outta this canoe!!
This week Audrey and I chat about Twitter reply changes and federated social network Mastodon. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 31: Interview with Norman Shamas
This week I chat with independent security consultant Norman Shamas (@NormanShamas) about all kinds of security topics including the Signal protocol, gpg, what a human-centered approach to security looks like, and particular security concerns within marginalized and activists communities. Enjoy!...
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Episode 30: When was the last time you updated the operating system on your vibrator?
This week Audrey and Christie chat about the FCC ditching privacy protections and Amelia Abreu (@ameliaabreu) joins Christie to discuss the judgement against bluetooth vibrator We-vibe. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 29: Your data is trying to kill you
This week Audrey and I chat about all the ways the Internet and your data are trying to kill you, including Cloudbleed, SHA-1 collisions, CloudPets, and Amazon S3. tldr; stay away from anything connected to the cloud! Just kidding, kinda...Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 28: Interview with Meli Lewis
This week Christie chats with Meli Lewis (@iff_or), data editor for the Oregonian about data visualization, ham radio, emergency preparedness, and much more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 27: Cash in a FedEx envelope
This week Audrey and I chat about Trump's travel ban, GitLab's recent outage, the ACLU joining Y Combinator, and more. Enjoy! Show notes
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Episode 26: WhatsApp everybody?
This week Audrey and I chat about Meitu and how common it is for mobile apps to profile your device and collect other analytics and how AT&T turning off its 2G network in San Francisco caused the bus tracker not to work. We discuss the Guardian's poor coverage of WhatsApp security, and finally…
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Episode 25: A certain amount of ambiguity
This week Audrey and I chat about Medium's "renewed focus" and what it tells us about the financial challenges of online publishing, Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages project, their cache, and why it might not be the best for the open web. Lastly, we share what delighted us on the Internet this...
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Interviews and news about the technology industry, focusing on the voices of people from under-represented and marginalized groups.
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Christie Koehler and Recompiler Media
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