30 JAN 2018 · Many websites you go to are in some way funded by advertising dollars. Over the years these ads have become more and more invasive, both on the screen and to our privacy. They even slow down the sites we visit - they can take up to 50% of page load times. There are cookies trying to build a profile on you and trackers that follow your habits - enter Brave. Brave is an internet browser that blocks all ads and fights for privacy online. It’s also 2x faster on desktop and up to 7x on mobile. Brave recently started allowing you to contribute to the sites you visit most. They did an initial coin offering, ICO, which created tokens (a type of cryptocurrency) called BAT (Basic Attention Token) that could be used to pay content creators. My guest this week is Yan - who is the Chief Information Security Officer at Brave.

11 JAN 2018 · Shortly after New Years we were hit with two security flaws that affect microprocessors called Meltdown and Spectre. These hardware flaws allow programs to steal data being processed on a computer. Both have both been around for quite some time and it’s unclear to what extent they have already been exploited. Desktop, laptop, and cloud computers may be affected by Meltdown, as for Spectre, it’s all of the above, and mobile. My guest this week is Dan Kaminsky, Chief Scientist at White Ops, a cybersecurity firm. Dan is one of the seven Recovery Key Shareholders who possess the ability to restore the DNS root keys, aka the keys to restore the internet. We talk about Meltdown and Spectre, Intel’s response, and whatever you do, don’t download the dancing fish… but first, our need for speed and the introduction to Meltdown and Spectre.