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127 - Torchlight Chat - The Handheld Death Comms of Beirut
03 Oct 2024
00:40:17
Discussion of the Lebanon and Syria pager explosions of September 2024.
Climate change is one of the greatest dangers we face: for our privacy. Gabriel Custodiet surveys the encroachment of climate surveillance, from carbon credits, ESG, to a dystopian article from Al Gore about AI and carbon tracking.
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Joshua Sheats of the excellent podcast Radical Personal Finance. Topics range from bitcoin, asset protection, and location independent businesses to the war on cash and wealth as a means to expand your privacy toolbox.
0:00 - Beginning 16:00 - Joshua Sheats changes view on Bitcoin 34:08 - Joshua spends a year using only cash 51:20 - Wealth opens up privacy options 58:42 - Location independent businesses 1:03:00 - Morality of advertising 1:23:10 - Asset Protection Planning for Mere Mortals 1:37:07 - Internationalisation as privacy
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29 - Childhood’s End and Surveillance
21 Apr 2022
00:18:14
Fiction has much to say about reality. Gabriel Custodiet discusses what the sci-fi classic Childhood's End has to say about the soul-destroying power of surveillance. He then gives a few thoughts for resisting.
Mining bitcoin at home may be the purest way to acquire it privately. Gabriel Custodiet talks to home mining guru Econoalchemist about the ins-and-outs of mining bitcoin privately from one’s home. This is one podcast any privacy Bitcoiner does not want to miss.
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with one of the premier privacy Bitcoiners: Bitcoin Q+A. This episode offers a great overview of the main ways to acquire and use Bitcoin privately.
Gabriel Custodiet speaks to NVK, co-inventor of the Coldcard Bitcoin wallet. They discuss his particularly secure wallet and Bitcoin privacy more broadly. A hardware wallet is a dedicated mini-computer whose entire purpose (both hardware and software) is limited only to crypto transacting. It is thus a more secure way to store crypto, isolated from “hot” internet-connected devices that have much more code, many more features, and consequently many more vulnerabilities.
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Jameson Lopp, cypherpunk and co-founder of Casa Bitcoin service. They discuss Jameson’s privacy reboot after a swatting attack, digital privacy, and securing one’s bitcoin.
Jameson Lopp Resources → Swatting event: https://blog.lopp.net/reflections-upon-a-swatting/ → Great privacy/crypto resource: https://www.Lopp.net → Jameson’s privacy journey: https://blog.lopp.net/modest-privacy-protection-proposal/ → Tracking down the swatter: https://blog.lopp.net/to-swat-a-swatter/ → Casa Bitcoin wallet/service: https://keys.casa/ → Lopp on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lopp
Gabriel Custodiet speaks to the creator of the animated film IN-SHADOW, Lubomir Arsov, about technocracy and how to protect the self from outside influence.
TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 2:18 – Are libertarians politically correct about Third World countries? 4:30 – Biggest reservation about Bhandari’s ideas 10:18 – Megacities 15:50 – Sweatshops 21:05 – Indian CEOs in American tech companies 26:30 – What does the structure of the Hindi language say about Indians? 32:15 – Should Indians stop building bridges and roads? 39:48 – Rapid Fire Questions 41:10 – Jayant’s day spent with the nephew of Robert Mugabe 45:20 – Argentina 25 years from now 46:40 – El Salvador 48:00 – Japan as a non-immigration, non-refugee country 52:30 – Update on Jayant’s cancellation
#JayantBhandari #India #WatchmanPrivacy
22 - Privacy During Economic Crisis
09 Feb 2022
00:18:32
Gabriel Custodiet gives some ideas for how one might approach privacy during economically-troubled times.
20 - Why Free and Open-Source Software is Essential to Privacy
16 Jan 2022
00:17:18
Gabriel Custodiet discusses how Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) is essential to digital privacy, and gives some examples of software to start using.
19 - Mikkel Thorup: Privacy and Internationalisation
04 Jan 2022
00:40:14
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with international consultant Mikkel Thorup. Topics include moving and traveling abroad, second citizenships, the required information of citizenship by investment, airport surveillance, and precious metal vaults overseas.
16 - Paul Rosenberg: A Freeman's Perspective of Privacy
08 Oct 2021
00:52:29
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Paul Rosenberg, a fascinating renaissance man who is an engineer, philosopher, occasional theologian, and cryptographer. They discuss the meaning and benefits of privacy, who we should be private from, Paul's background in cryptography, cryptocurrencies, and his VPN: Crypto Hippie.
Paul Rosenberg's website and newsletter → https://www.freemansperspective.com
Crypto Hippie VPN has been shut down as of early 2022
15 - Privacy Expert JJ Luna on How to Be Invisible
24 Sep 2021
00:17:58
Gabriel speaks with JJ Luna, a privacy expert who honed his skills while hiding under pain of death in Spain during the reign of Francisco Franco. He was never caught. Luna went on to become a privacy consultant and to publish one of the bestselling books on privacy out there: How to Be Invisible. In this episode he shares the basics of his privacy worldview as well as sharing some timely thoughts on private LLCs and living abroad.
Gabriel Custodiet explains the vital necessity of learning to use torrents for seekers of privacy and freedom and defends the practice on moral grounds.
13 - Former Big Tech Lawyer: On Privacy and Finding the Light
08 Sep 2021
00:35:38
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Sonal Tolman, a former lawyer for Big Tech. They discuss consumerism, Big Data, cultivating a minimalist lifestyle, and of course the value of privacy.
Gabriel Custodiet introduces and reads excerpts from his latest book: Privacy and Utopia: A History.
Purchase Privacy and Utopia: A History → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/digitalmarket/ (e-book) →https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Utopia-History-Gabriel-Custodiet/dp/B0D9D4XTYB (physical copy)
(Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio)
12 - Apple Cannot Give You Privacy
27 Aug 2021
00:14:09
Gabriel Custodiet explains Apple's recent "Child Safety" update, how to get out of Apple's surveillance net, and why Apple cannot give you privacy: even if they actually believed in it.
11 - Interview with Barry Reid: The Paper Trip and New Identities
20 Aug 2021
00:49:29
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Barry Reid, the legendary privacy author of The Paper Trip. They discuss escaping conscription during the Vietnam War, how to create a new identity, and the knowledge gained from a lifetime of privacy entrepreneurship.
9 - Private Living in a Seapod: An Interview with Grant Romundt from Ocean Builders
06 Aug 2021
00:37:41
Seasteading is one of the last options for free and private living in the world today. Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Grant Romundt, CEO of Ocean Builders, about the company's work on self-sustaining seapods.
3 - Central Bank Digital Currencies: An Introductory Warning
15 May 2021
00:20:31
What are Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)? When will they come about? How can we stay private with them? Gabriel Custodiet gives some introductory thoughts about this brave new world.
Episode 114 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Data Sovereignty and Backups
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Urban Hacker about the importance of offline backups along with ten tips on creating and protecting them in the best way possible.
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TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 1:30 – Why back up? 5:10 – Tip 1: Organization is key 9:00 – Tip 2: Use encryption 12:40 – Tip 3: Redundancy 14:35 – Tip 4: Practice and rotation 17:18 – Tip 5: Self-hosting 20:20 – Tip 6: Find a good hiding place 24:50 – Tip 7: All of this applies (and then some) for seed phrases 27:30 – Tip 8: Expensive seed phrase backups are not necessarily the solution 30:30 – Tip 9: Stealth backups 33:40 – Tip 10: Protect against seed phrase theft
#Backups #WatchmanPrivacy #EscapeTheTechnocracy
2 - First Five Steps to Privacy
22 Apr 2021
00:26:47
A few case examples of how devastating social media can be followed by five fundamental steps to privacy.
In this first episode Gabriel Custodiet briefly introduces the podcast and examines how minimalism can help you to achieve privacy. He then guides you through a cleansing routine to help get your digital life back in shape. As always, please check out The Watchman Guide to Privacy to support the show and for more information. Many thanks, as usual, to David for lending his voice to the endeavor.
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Joe Doran of Trends Journal. They discuss the origins of Trends Journal and Gerald Celente, the basics of The Technocracy, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and the questions about it that too few people are asking, and how AI will erase pseudonymity from the Internet.
TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 3:35 – Origins of Trends Journal 8:56 – What is “The Technocracy”? 10:25 – Resources 11:25 – Joe’s basic overview of AI 15:35 – The wrong questions about artificial intelligence 19:35 – Joe’s observations speaking with AI 21:35 – “The comprehensive hijacking of human information” 27:50 – Would a self-aware AI be libertarian? 35:40 – Joe’s view of where AI is going 37:30 – AI will erase pseudonymity from the Internet 40:40 – Final thoughts
#TrendsJournal #JoeDoran #ArtificialIntelligence
112 - Vehicle Privacy Part 2: Andrea Amico
16 Jul 2024
00:50:01
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Andrea Amico about the disturbing telematics of recent vehicles, including always-on microphones and invisible cameras that detect your emotions while driving: all of which have the ability to transmit data back to car manufacturers and other third parties.
TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 1:30 – Privacy4Cars app privacy concerns? 6:30 – Vehicle telematics 14:55 – Microphones built into cars 18:00 – Can your car detect your emotions 22:05 – Does Privacy4Cars remove telematics data? 25:30 – Disabling telematics 27:40 – Using phones with cars 30:45 – GrapheneOS 31:40 – BERLA 34:10 – OBD-II Port 37:00 – Car data breaches 39:45 – Any car companies that collect less? 43:00 – Other solutions
#Privacy4Cars #AndreaAmico #WatchmanPrivacy
111 - Monero Next Steps: Seth for Privacy
08 Jul 2024
01:19:31
Gabriel speaks with Seth for Privacy about Monero tactics that go beyond the basics.
TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 1:45 – Seth’s background 11:20 – Future of Opt Out podcast 13:30 – Uptick in Monero users 17:15 – Best news in Monero 20:55 – Acquiring no-KYC monero 25:45 – Problems with centralized swap services 31:20 – How important is running your own node in Monero? 39:40 – Monero node on Umbrel 42:10 – Coin control in Monero 52:05 – Using Tor with Monero 56:00 – Traffic fingerprinting 1:02:35 – Spam attacks on Monero 1:10:05 – Shutting down of Monero services 1:17:58 – Final thoughts
#Monero #SethforPrivacy #WatchmanPrivacy
110 - Using a KYC Crypto Exchange Might Get You Tortured
03 Jul 2024
00:38:50
Gabriel and Urban Hacker unpack a recent article by Wired on a crypto theft and torture spree.
109 - MyDataRemoval: Opt Out of People Search Websites
17 Jun 2024
00:42:36
Gabriel speaks with James Wilson of MyDataRemoval for a second time. They do a live test of how much information James can find on a person, and then discuss the disturbing nature and extent of people search websites, data brokers, and breach databases.
TIMELINE 0:00 – Introduction 1:25 – Live test of people search database info 6:20 – How the data is used against you 8:10 – Self-replication of people search websites 12:10 – Additional danger of breach databases 15:30 – A crazy story 18:40 – Should non-Americans be concerned? 19:40 – Is this a “national security” risk? 23:20 – Where do our basic pieces of information exposure come from? 24:00 – PayPal is as bad as you think it is 25:25 – What is HaveIBeenPwned? 27:05 – What is the future of people search websites? 29:50 – Voter data is public? 30:30 – Bogus data as a strategy 32:40 – Basic info of MyDataRemoval.com
In this Torchlight Chat Gabriel and Urban discuss the recent released of a Samourai Wallet fork, Ashigaru Wallet: and what steps it takes to vet this kind of software.
108 - Post-Samourai Wallet: Max Tannahill & Diverter_NoKYC
10 Jun 2024
01:08:11
Gabriel speaks with Samourai Wallet insiders Max Tannahill and Diverter_NoKYC. They give an update on the Samourai Wallet arrest and its absurdity. They also discuss the post-arrest chilling effect, the compliance mindset that defines the current Bitcoin scene, and what the future of Bitcoin privacy is.
Timeline 0:00 – Introduction 4:40 – Samourai Wallet update (June 10, 2024) 7:50 – Absurdity of allegations 13:00 – Observations about “Bitcoin community” reactions to SW arrest 20:40 – Preemptive shutdowns of Bitcoin and Monero services 24:05 – The Compliance Mindset 36:50 – The future of Bitcoin privacy 45:40 – Update on Bitcoin mining 48:15 – Max’s current Bitcoin tools 50:40 – Roman Sterligov and Bitcoin Fog 59:30 – Big topics in Bitcoin at the moment
#SamouraiWallet #BitcoinPrivacy #WatchmanPrivacy
107 - MySudo: VoIP with Privacy Focus
07 Jun 2024
00:54:58
Gabriel speaks with Paul Ashley of Anonyome Labs: creators of the VoIP service MySudo. The service is essential for privacy users: it allows you to have up to nine legitimate phone numbers organized in a handy app that is zero-knowledge encrypted.
Timeline 0:00 – Introduction 1:00 – Phone privacy realism 2:50 – Available countries for MySudo 5:55 – Is VoIP the future of telephony? 9:16 – Is KYC coming for VoIP? 11:20 – Porting phone numbers to MySudo 12:10 – What info required to sign up for service? 13:30 – How to pay privately for MySudo (special instructions for GrapheneOS) 17:05 – What would MySudo give over with a search warrant? 18:10 – Where is data from MySudo stored? 22:10 – MySudo for PC 25:25 – Would KYC mandate affect current users? 26:25 – MySudo greatly reduces SIM swap risk 27:14 – You MUST back up your MySudo account 32:00 – Technical errors while using MySudo (VPN use) 36:45 – What can customer service see about us? 38:40 – Fewer robocalls with MySudo 39:13 – Email also baked into MySudo: sudomail 42:50 – Virtual credit cards 49:00 – MySudo browser 50:24 – Final thoughts
#MySudo #GrapheneOS #WatchmanPrivacy
106 - Simplex Chat Private Messenger
05 Jun 2024
00:58:32
Gabriel speaks with Evgeny, the founder of Simplex Chat. Simplex is a recent and still-developing private messaging app with a slant toward privacy over convenience. Evgeny gives his critical thoughts on other private messengers, explains how privacy software can fund itself, exposes the myth of disappearing messages, and gets into some of the finer details of how Simplex Chat has made different choices from its competitors. In particular Simplex gets rid of accounts altogether, allowing you to create as many “profiles” as you want that are localized to your device. The result is, as Evgeny says, Simplex knows nothing about its users.
Timeline 0:00 - Introduction 1:23 – Do funding sources influence projects like Simplex? 9:45 – Evgeny’s thoughts on other private messaging apps 17:00 – Simplex Chat gets rid of the very idea of an account 20:00 – What does Simplex know about its users? 24:25 – Can we replicate Simplex profiles on other devices? 29:38 – Disappearing messages are security theater 34:00 – Why didn’t Simplex take the code base of Signal and build from it? 40:00 – Problems with UI and path forward 49:25 – Beginner tutorial for Simplex 52:50 – How can you fund a private messaging app? 56:35 – Final Thoughts
#SimplexChat #PrivateMessaging #WatchmanPrivacy
105 - How to Secure Your WordPress Website
30 May 2024
00:27:36
Tips for securing the popular FOSS website builder and service: WordPress. With Urban Hacker.
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Urban Hacker about the infamous XZ backdoor incident by which a key piece of software in the Linux kernel was nearly hijacked. The attacker spent four years slowly ingratiating himself into the small community, which had been selected precisely because it consisted of a single burned-out developer. Follow us as we unravel this bizarre and disturbing story of premeditated digital attack and what it means for free and open-source software and our own cybersecurity.
Timeline 0:00 – Introduction 2:25 – What is XZ Utils? 4:17 – How does GitHub work? 15:15 – Summary of XZ Utils backdoor incident 18:00 – Social engineering 21:00 – Technical implementation of the backdoor attack 28:00 – Potential consequences of this attempted attack 30:10 – How was it found? 33:00 – Does this expose a major weakness of FOSS? 38:25 – Similar supply chain cyber attacks 43:00 – Final thoughts