About the show

Join Privacy and Open Source advocates, Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman, as they navigate the new digital world, covering topics related to digital privacy, cybersecurity, digital identity, as well as Linux and open source and other current issues.

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • Episode 25: A Chat With Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo

    Episode  |  August 15th, 2019  |  42 mins 19 secs
    entrepreneurs, privacy, search engines, technology

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, and co-author of Super Thinking and Traction.

  • Episode 24: A Chat About Redis Labs

    Episode  |  August 2nd, 2019  |  50 mins 11 secs
    database, foss, linux, open core, open source, redis, redis labs, technology

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Yiftach Shoolman of Redis Labs about Redis, Open Source licenses, company culture and more.

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    Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend
    Redis...

  • Episode 22: Don't Panic, It's All About the Kernel

    Episode  |  July 2nd, 2019  |  39 mins 26 secs

    Katherine Druckman talks to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about building your own kernel, kernel panics, and other projects.

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    Links mentioned:

    https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kernel-issue

  • Episode 21: From Mac to Linux

    Episode  |  June 20th, 2019  |  45 mins 48 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about moving from Mac to Linux.

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    Links Mentioned:

    http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications
    http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/A...

  • Episode 20: Advertising is Broken, but Linux Isn't.

    Episode  |  June 7th, 2019  |  58 mins 15 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti, of Mozilla and formerly of Linux Journal, about ad technology, privacy, and the Linux community.

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    Links Mentioned:

    http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/

  • Episode 19: Democratizing Cybersecurity

    Episode  |  May 24th, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Alex Gounares of Polyverse Linux about Cybersecurity for everyone.

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  • Episode 18: KidOYO

    Episode  |  April 29th, 2019  |  1 hr 5 mins

    Doc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola 
    Long Island.

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    The Kids Take Over
     

  • Episode 17: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

    Episode  |  March 25th, 2019  |  40 mins 19 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bob Erdman, Security Product Manager for Helpsystems about Linux security threats.

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    https://www.helpsystems.com/cta/free-network-security-vulnerability-scan
    https://www.help...

  • Episode 16: Digital Stalking

    Episode  |  March 11th, 2019  |  45 mins 16 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about digital stalking, journalism, clickbait, and using ad targeting for evil.

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    Links mentioned:

    The Spinner’s hack on journalism

  • Episode 15: Learning Python

    Episode  |  February 11th, 2019  |  45 mins 55 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Senior Columnist, Reuven Lerner, about learning new languages such as Python.

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  • Episode 14: Digital Sovereignty

    Episode  |  January 28th, 2019  |  42 mins 25 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Elizabeth Renieris about digital identity, ethics, boiled frogs, and horses with lasers.

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  • Episode 13: Surveillance Marketing

    Episode  |  January 18th, 2019  |  1 hr 7 mins

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about surveillance marketing, ad tech, and privacy.

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    If it weren’t for retargeting, we might not have ad blocking

  • Episode 12: Vendor Lock-in

    Episode  |  January 11th, 2019  |  44 mins 52 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal's Technical Editor, Kyle Rankin, about vendor lock-in.

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    Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Shaving

    Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Messaging

  • Episode 11: Moving the Chairs

    Episode  |  January 3rd, 2019  |  50 mins 21 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about his Deep Dive articles, storage, blockchain, and moving chairs.

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    The December issue of Linux Journal
    Blockchain, Part I: Introduction and Cryptocurren...

  • Episode 10: Hydrants and Sirens

    Episode  |  December 17th, 2018  |  54 mins 16 secs

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to David Egts (@davidegts), Chief Technologist North America for the Public Sector at Red Hat (@redhatgov) about open source enthusiasm.

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    Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for ...

  • Episode 9: Humanity, Magic, and Glitter

    Episode  |  December 7th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bryan Lunduke about Linux and humanity.

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