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132 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDiscussions in the technology, politics and culture of decentralization. From peer-to-peer networks and cryptocurrencies to darknet markets and distributed autonomous organizations, this show looks at how decentralization is changing the world. Hosted by the creator of STEAL THIS FILM, timely, thought-provoking interviews with technologists, activists, troublemakers and thought leaders.
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19: Bitcoin's #1 Trailer Park Supervisor, With Brad Mills
January 01, 2021 04:07 - 1 hour - 93 MBIn this holiday episode I met up with super early Bitcoin adopter Brad Mills to discuss the strange new world we're entering as Bitcoin reaches new all-time highs, and the global financial system enters a period of unprecedented stress. Why were the very first Bitcoiners drawn to Bitcoin, before anyone else believed in it? Could there be common characteristics amongst these earliest adopters which might make them a strange kind of community? What is the world they'd like to see Bitcoin bring...
S5 Ep19: Bitcoin's #1 Trailer Park Supervisor, With Brad Mills
January 01, 2021 04:07 - 1 hour - 93 MBIn this holiday episode I met up with super early Bitcoin adopter Brad Mills to discuss the strange new world we're entering as Bitcoin reaches new all-time highs, and the global financial system enters a period of unprecedented stress. Why were the very first Bitcoiners drawn to Bitcoin, before anyone else believed in it? Could there be common characteristics amongst these earliest adopters which might make them a strange kind of community? What is the world they'd like to see Bitcoin bring...
S5 Ep18: Navigating The Reality Tunnels, with Emerson Brooking
October 30, 2020 12:44 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBIn this episode, I met Emerson Brooking, a fellow at the Digital Forensics Lab and author of LikeWar, to take a deep dive into the topic of online disinformation. I put to Emerson my feelings that what people are calling the 'post-truth' world has in fact been in gestation long before the internet, and that a lot of the arguments about today's epistemic disorder come down to sour grapes over the apparition of new information incumbents capable of creating and distributing disorderly narrativ...
18: Navigating The Reality Tunnels, with Emerson Brooking
October 30, 2020 12:44 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBIn this episode, I met Emerson Brooking, a fellow at the Digital Forensics Lab and author of LikeWar, to take a deep dive into the topic of online disinformation. I put to Emerson my feelings that what people are calling the 'post-truth' world has in fact been in gestation long before the internet, and that a lot of the arguments about today's epistemic disorder come down to sour grapes over the apparition of new information incumbents capable of creating and distributing disorderly narrativ...
S5 Ep17: How Decentralization Could Save Online Privacy, with Orchid's Alex Kehaya
October 07, 2020 08:33 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBIn this episode, we meet Alex Kehaya of VPN Orchid to discuss the company's radical new decentralized approach to improving privacy for internet users. As you'll hear, Orchid's model solves a lot of the problems associated with traditional models — providing better anonymity and privacy, and reduced exposure to the honeypot problem that's always plagued centralized services. This episode will be of great interest to anyone looking to augment their online privacy without relying on a single...
17: How Decentralization Could Save Online Privacy, with Orchid's Alex Kehaya
October 07, 2020 08:33 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBIn this episode, we meet Alex Kehaya of VPN Orchid to discuss the company's radical new decentralized approach to improving privacy for internet users. As you'll hear, Orchid's model solves a lot of the problems associated with traditional models — providing better anonymity and privacy, and reduced exposure to the honeypot problem that's always plagued centralized services. This episode will be of great interest to anyone looking to augment their online privacy without relying on a single...
S5 Ep16: How The Cult Of The Dead Cow Invented Hacktivism, with Joseph Menn
September 10, 2020 20:22 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode, journalist and writer Joseph Menn discuss the seminal hacking crew Cult Of The Dead Cow. CoDC was one of the key forces behind the creations of 'hacktivism', which tries to contribute political change via formal and informal hacking operations. Of particular interest here is how CoDC's work has more than occasionally dovetailed with American foreign policy -- especially with regards to China. Joseph Menn is on Twitter @JosephMenn, and his book on the Cult Of The Dead Cow is ...
16: How The Cult Of The Dead Cow Invented Hacktivism, with Joseph Menn
September 10, 2020 20:22 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode, journalist and writer Joseph Menn discuss the seminal hacking crew Cult Of The Dead Cow. CoDC was one of the key forces behind the creations of 'hacktivism', which tries to contribute political change via formal and informal hacking operations. Of particular interest here is how CoDC's work has more than occasionally dovetailed with American foreign policy -- especially with regards to China. Joseph Menn is on Twitter @JosephMenn, and his book on the Cult Of The Dead Cow is ...
15: snglsDAO: How To Decentralize The Video Economy, with Troy Murray
July 31, 2020 20:13 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBIn this episode, we talk to Troy Murray about snglsDAO: a BitTorrent and blockchain-based system for distributing and monetizing video content, the crazy amounts of money SingularDTV raised in their ICO, and why the ICO system seems to have provided a bad incentive to develop actual products. Find out how snglsDAO is intending to take power away from centralized services like YouTube, why that goal suddenly seems incredibly urgent, and why a Distributed Autonomous Organization is the right w...
S5 Ep15: snglsDAO: How To Decentralize The Video Economy, with Troy Murray
July 31, 2020 20:13 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBIn this episode, we talk to Troy Murray about snglsDAO: a BitTorrent and blockchain-based system for distributing and monetizing video content, the crazy amounts of money SingularDTV raised in their ICO, and why the ICO system seems to have provided a bad incentive to develop actual products. Find out how snglsDAO is intending to take power away from centralized services like YouTube, why that goal suddenly seems incredibly urgent, and why a Distributed Autonomous Organization is the right w...
S5 Ep14: Rabble: Decentralisation & Disaster
July 23, 2020 04:48 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBIn this episode Jamie talks with Evan Henshaw Plath, aka @rabble, about how he sees the world during and after Covid-19 - and the role for decentralised technologies, bitcoin, and survivable communication systems in whatever comes next. Evan's currently building Verse, a social network built on the Scuttlebutt protocol.
14: Rabble: Decentralisation & Disaster
July 23, 2020 04:48 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBIn this episode Jamie talks with Evan Henshaw Plath, aka @rabble, about how he sees the world during and after Covid-19 - and the role for decentralised technologies, bitcoin, and survivable communication systems in whatever comes next. Evan's currently building Verse, a social network built on the Scuttlebutt protocol.
S5 Ep13: How To Hack The Epistemic Crisis, with Audrey Tang
June 26, 2020 15:53 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode, we meet up with Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, to discuss how Taiwan eliminated Covid-19 with only 7 deaths. Find out how information technology was instrumental in Taiwan's success, from helping source and distribute masks, to enabling citizen engagement through direct democracy. And finally, we dig into how this ongoing experiment with direct democracy in Taiwan has helped avoid the deadly plague of conspiracy theories, social polarization, and what some people ar...
13: How To Hack The Epistemic Crisis, with Audrey Tang
June 26, 2020 15:53 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode, we meet up with Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, to discuss how Taiwan eliminated Covid-19 with only 7 deaths. Find out how information technology was instrumental in Taiwan's success, from helping source and distribute masks, to enabling citizen engagement through direct democracy. And finally, we dig into how this ongoing experiment with direct democracy in Taiwan has helped avoid the deadly plague of conspiracy theories, social polarization, and what some people ar...
S5 Ep12: 'Shadow Brokers vs. NSA: All About the Bitcoins?' with Ben Buchanan
May 28, 2020 17:02 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this episode, I talked with Ben Buchanan author of The Hacker And The State. We look at Ben's research into 'Shadow Brokers', the mysterious hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016, attempting to auction off a treasure trove of previously unknown NSA exploits. We discuss the hackers' tense relationship with the media, possible suspects including Kaspersky Labs, and motivations Shadow Brokers may have had beyond their claims that it was 'all about the Bitcoins'.
12: 'Shadow Brokers vs. NSA: All About the Bitcoins?' with Ben Buchanan
May 28, 2020 17:02 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this episode, I talked with Ben Buchanan author of The Hacker And The State. We look at Ben's research into 'Shadow Brokers', the mysterious hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016, attempting to auction off a treasure trove of previously unknown NSA exploits. We discuss the hackers' tense relationship with the media, possible suspects including Kaspersky Labs, and motivations Shadow Brokers may have had beyond their claims that it was 'all about the Bitcoins'.
S5 Ep11: 'The Dark Economics Of DDOS', with Abhishta
April 30, 2020 10:02 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode, returning guest Abhistha -- now Assistant Professor in network security at the University of Utwente -- digs into his latest research on the real economic impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks such as the Mirai botnet. With the internet-of-things continuing to grow as an attack surface, and compromised devices increasing both in number and processing capacity, we take an in-depth look at the underground economics of botnets -- and why some large corporation...
11: 'The Dark Economics Of DDOS', with Abhishta
April 30, 2020 10:02 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode, returning guest Abhistha -- now Assistant Professor in network security at the University of Utwente -- digs into his latest research on the real economic impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks such as the Mirai botnet. With the internet-of-things continuing to grow as an attack surface, and compromised devices increasing both in number and processing capacity, we take an in-depth look at the underground economics of botnets -- and why some large corporation...
10: 'Taking Crypto Offgrid', with Rich Myers
April 18, 2020 10:48 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this episode we meet Rich Myers of mesh networking company GoTenna. Rich is developing the Lot49 protocol, which both allows Lightning transactions over a local mesh network, and uses Bitcoin incentives to increase adoption of the network. Rich and I discuss the history of wireless networking and how P2P meshes could turn out to be critical in a time of crisis; why and to what extent we can consider our contemporary networks compromised through what Rich calls 'The Eye of Sauron' problem;...
S5 Ep10: 'Taking Crypto Offgrid', with Rich Myers
April 18, 2020 10:48 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this episode we meet Rich Myers of mesh networking company GoTenna. Rich is developing the Lot49 protocol, which both allows Lightning transactions over a local mesh network, and uses Bitcoin incentives to increase adoption of the network. Rich and I discuss the history of wireless networking and how P2P meshes could turn out to be critical in a time of crisis; why and to what extent we can consider our contemporary networks compromised through what Rich calls 'The Eye of Sauron' problem;...
S5 Ep9: 'The Great Data Prison Break', with Sean Moss-Pultz
April 06, 2020 20:47 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBIn this episode, I talk to Sean Moss Pultz, CEO of Bitmark Inc. -- a company focused on enabling personal data sovereignty through blockchain technology. We discuss Bitmark's journey and the company's latest pivot to Spring, an app that helps users extract personal data from Facebook and put it to work in all kinds of interesting ways. We discuss Sean's thoughts on data sovereignty and data rights as a critical civics issue and look in detail at how Spring wants to empower a new level of co...
9: 'The Great Data Prison Break', with Sean Moss-Pultz
April 06, 2020 20:47 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBIn this episode, I talk to Sean Moss Pultz, CEO of Bitmark Inc. -- a company focused on enabling personal data sovereignty through blockchain technology. We discuss Bitmark's journey and the company's latest pivot to Spring, an app that helps users extract personal data from Facebook and put it to work in all kinds of interesting ways. We discuss Sean's thoughts on data sovereignty and data rights as a critical civics issue and look in detail at how Spring wants to empower a new level of co...
S5 Ep8: 'Last Exit To Reality', with Sam Woolley
March 23, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThis episode features returning guest Sam Woolley, whose new book 'The Reality Game,' examines the new frontiers of 'fake news' and the idea that the next wave of technology will 'break the truth'. We discuss the state of the art in propaganda bots, delve further into the Russian strategy of producing 'controlled instability' through ongoing, widespread informational attacks such as political bots, and talk about the rise of institutional distrust, which may well prove disastrous in the cont...
8: 'Last Exit To Reality', with Sam Woolley
March 23, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThis episode features returning guest Sam Woolley, whose new book 'The Reality Game,' examines the new frontiers of 'fake news' and the idea that the next wave of technology will 'break the truth'. We discuss the state of the art in propaganda bots, delve further into the Russian strategy of producing 'controlled instability' through ongoing, widespread informational attacks such as political bots, and talk about the rise of institutional distrust, which may well prove disastrous in the cont...
S5 Ep7: Stolen Headlines 5: My Corona
March 14, 2020 16:06 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this Stolen Headlines, we invite show supporters Tim Reutemann and Mendel Skulski to discuss Coronavirus - how various world governments have responded so far, and the role information technology has played in detecting, containing and eradicating the disease. Tim introduces the informal hackathon he's initiated along with this wife, as a platform for people to do something about the virus. We discuss: how Taiwan has approached containing Coronavirus, and whether the surveillance provisi...
7: Stolen Headlines 5: My Corona
March 14, 2020 16:06 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this Stolen Headlines, we invite show supporters Tim Reutemann and Mendel Skulski to discuss Coronavirus - how various world governments have responded so far, and the role information technology has played in detecting, containing and eradicating the disease. Tim introduces the informal hackathon he's initiated along with this wife, as a platform for people to do something about the virus. We discuss: how Taiwan has approached containing Coronavirus, and whether the surveillance provisi...
6: Bitcoin's Black Swan, with Cedric Dahl
March 03, 2020 19:37 - 1 hour - 59 MBThis conversation centers around Bitcoin - its past, present and future. Cedric Dahl's 1000x group (https://1000x.group/) , which describes itself as a 'private think tank' focused on finding black swans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory) in the world of open and distributed protocols, has a thesis that Bitcoin is on the verge of 'superdominance' in which its value could multiply by a thousand or more from where it is right now. We discuss various evidence for this, from Bitcoi...
S5 Ep5: Russia's Sandworm: A New Front In The Cyberwar, with Andy Greenberg
February 11, 2020 15:13 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode, we meet Andy Greenberg, senior writer at Wired Magazine and author of Sandworm, A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hacker. We how Russia is developing a secret hacking programme with the ability to take out national infrastructure across the world -- and how, under a new paradigm of 'total war', essential elements of our lived environment are increasingly vulnerable to digital attack -- from banking to electricity to transport systems and be...
5: Russia's Sandworm: A New Front In The Cyberwar, with Andy Greenberg
February 11, 2020 15:13 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode, we meet Andy Greenberg, senior writer at Wired Magazine and author of Sandworm, A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hacker. We how Russia is developing a secret hacking programme with the ability to take out national infrastructure across the world -- and how, under a new paradigm of 'total war', essential elements of our lived environment are increasingly vulnerable to digital attack -- from banking to electricity to transport systems and be...
S5 Ep4: The Past, Present, and Future of GPS, with inventor Hugo Fruehauf
January 23, 2020 04:50 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode, I met Hugo Fruehauf, one of the inventors of GPS, the global positioning system underpinning an enormous number of the technologies we rely on today. We dig into how GPS works, and how much of our world depends on it -- from cellphone networks to financial markets and the electric grid.... and the multiple attacks against it by spoofers and jammers.
4: The Past, Present, and Future of GPS, with inventor Hugo Fruehauf
January 23, 2020 04:50 - 43 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode, I met Hugo Fruehauf, one of the inventors of GPS, the global positioning system underpinning an enormous number of the technologies we rely on today. We dig into how GPS works, and how much of our world depends on it -- from cellphone networks to financial markets and the electric grid.... and the multiple attacks against it by spoofers and jammers.
S5 Ep3: How Silicon Valley Reinvented America, with Margaret O' Mara
December 10, 2019 04:06 - 1 hour - 59 MBWe are living in a world eaten by software -- software created, owned and operated by Silicon Valley. In this episode, Jamie meets Margaret O' Mara, author of 'The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America' to discuss how Silicon Valley's rejection of the conventional bureaucracies and corporate structures, its turning away from the mainframe towards a decentralized attitude to innovations and development, led to a huge new empire -- one that is radically restructuring the world's ins...
3: How Silicon Valley Reinvented America, with Margaret O' Mara
December 10, 2019 04:06 - 1 hour - 59 MBWe are living in a world eaten by software -- software created, owned and operated by Silicon Valley. In this episode, Jamie meets Margaret O' Mara, author of 'The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America' to discuss how Silicon Valley's rejection of the conventional bureaucracies and corporate structures, its turning away from the mainframe towards a decentralized attitude to innovations and development, led to a huge new empire -- one that is radically restructuring the world's ins...
2: On The Frontline Of The Code War, with John P. Carlin
November 14, 2019 10:53 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this episode Jamie meets up with John P. Carlin, author of Dawn of the Code War and former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division to discuss the ongoing network war with China -- one that's about to ratchet up, as 5G connects billions of devices via a technology heavily dependent on China's Huawei. What does it mean to wage war in the era of distributed networks? How do networks change the very idea of 'Command and Control' towards lea...
S5 Ep2: On The Frontline Of The Code War, with John P. Carlin
November 14, 2019 10:53 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBIn this episode Jamie meets up with John P. Carlin, author of Dawn of the Code War and former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division to discuss the ongoing network war with China -- one that's about to ratchet up, as 5G connects billions of devices via a technology heavily dependent on China's Huawei. What does it mean to wage war in the era of distributed networks? How do networks change the very idea of 'Command and Control' towards lea...
S5 Ep1: Stolen Headlines 4: 'Live From the Memewars'
October 22, 2019 16:01 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBIn this episode of Stolen Headlines, Tim, Mattias and Jamie get together to discuss how 8Chan came to influence White House policy; why in China, the Little Red Book *reads you*; and the array of Silicon Valley companies caving to China's stringent censorship demands. Links: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/qanon-ukraine-server/ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chinese-app-allows-officials-access-to-100-million-users-phone-report-2115962 https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-cen...
1: Stolen Headlines 4: 'Live From the Memewars'
October 22, 2019 16:01 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBIn this episode of Stolen Headlines, Tim, Mattias and Jamie get together to discuss how 8Chan came to influence White House policy; why in China, the Little Red Book *reads you*; and the array of Silicon Valley companies caving to China's stringent censorship demands. Links: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/qanon-ukraine-server/ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chinese-app-allows-officials-access-to-100-million-users-phone-report-2115962 https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-cen...
28: 'The Assassin's Mace': Strange Asymmetries In The Soft War With China
October 10, 2019 12:56 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBIn Fighting For The Perimeter: Huawei & The 5G Surveillance Empire. I looked at 5G as a new global surveillance surface, one largely dependent on Huawei, a company run by ex-officer of China's military. Using the documentary American Factory as a springboard, this episode looks at how and why the West has allowed a strategic adversary to occupy key elements of its economic infrastructure. Transnational capital was supposed to create a world of free-market democracies. Instead, China has use...
S4 Ep28: 'The Assassin's Mace': Strange Asymmetries In The Soft War With China
October 10, 2019 12:56 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBIn Fighting For The Perimeter: Huawei & The 5G Surveillance Empire. I looked at 5G as a new global surveillance surface, one largely dependent on Huawei, a company run by ex-officer of China's military. Using the documentary American Factory as a springboard, this episode looks at how and why the West has allowed a strategic adversary to occupy key elements of its economic infrastructure. Transnational capital was supposed to create a world of free-market democracies. Instead, China has use...
27: 'The Secret Satoshis', with Finn Brunton
October 03, 2019 08:26 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBThis is part one of a two-part interview with Finn Brunton, author of 'Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency'. In this part we dig into the secret pre-history of Bitcoin, including the World War 2 origins of public/private key cryptography, how Proof Of Work was initially proposed as a means to fight spam, and how the 'Extropian' movement - which, Finn explains, stood for 'more life, more energy, more time, more space, mo...
S4 Ep27: 'The Secret Satoshis', with Finn Brunton
October 03, 2019 08:26 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBThis is part one of a two-part interview with Finn Brunton, author of 'Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency'. In this part we dig into the secret pre-history of Bitcoin, including the World War 2 origins of public/private key cryptography, how Proof Of Work was initially proposed as a means to fight spam, and how the 'Extropian' movement - which, Finn explains, stood for 'more life, more energy, more time, more space, mo...
26: Orbital Waste: The Strange Afterlife Of Space Technology, with Josh Reno
September 10, 2019 08:26 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBIn this episode, we meet anthropologist Joshua Reno, author of 'Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness' to discuss Josh's investigations into the strange externalities of rapidly proliferating military technology, both on planet Earth and beyond. Join us to discover Point Nemo, the so-called "oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” and graveyard of the world's downed orbital tech; why future war really will be fought in space; how ‘Oumuamua’ may be the first instan...
S4 Ep26: Orbital Waste: The Strange Afterlife Of Space Technology, with Josh Reno
September 10, 2019 08:26 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBIn this episode, we meet anthropologist Joshua Reno, author of 'Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness' to discuss Josh's investigations into the strange externalities of rapidly proliferating military technology, both on planet Earth and beyond. Join us to discover Point Nemo, the so-called "oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” and graveyard of the world's downed orbital tech; why future war really will be fought in space; how ‘Oumuamua’ may be the first instan...
25: Stolen Headlines #3 'Decentral Discontent'
August 31, 2019 10:04 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode of Stolen Headlines, Jamie hangs out with patrons Tim Reutemann and Mattias Rubensson to discuss: why the phony Marxist Greek government is evicting horizontally organized refugee shelters; how centralised statism is leading to bad software choices in Sweden; and why it doesn't matter whether Craig Wright is actually Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.
S4 Ep25: Stolen Headlines #3 'Decentral Discontent'
August 31, 2019 10:04 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode of Stolen Headlines, Jamie hangs out with patrons Tim Reutemann and Mattias Rubensson to discuss: why the phony Marxist Greek government is evicting horizontally organized refugee shelters; how centralised statism is leading to bad software choices in Sweden; and why it doesn't matter whether Craig Wright is actually Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.
24: How To Hack A Democracy, With Audrey Tang (Pt.2)
August 28, 2019 09:50 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is part two of our interview with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan. We discuss the technology behind the Sunflower Movement, which radicalized democracy in the country, and how the Taiwanese government is using Free Software such as Discourse and Polis to enable its ongoing real-time experiment in direct democracy. Audrey explains the inspiration provided by Bowling Green Civic Assembly, the so-called 'online to offline' model in which a virtual decision-making process helped i...
S4 Ep24: How To Hack A Democracy, With Audrey Tang (Pt.2)
August 28, 2019 09:50 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is part two of our interview with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan. We discuss the technology behind the Sunflower Movement, which radicalized democracy in the country, and how the Taiwanese government is using Free Software such as Discourse and Polis to enable its ongoing real-time experiment in direct democracy. Audrey explains the inspiration provided by Bowling Green Civic Assembly, the so-called 'online to offline' model in which a virtual decision-making process helped i...
23: STOLEN HEADLINES #2 ‘Treason & Trust’
August 26, 2019 13:26 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this second installment of Stolen Headlines, cybersecurity experts Sean Lynch and Adam Burns discuss why Peter Thiel thinks Google's co-operation with China on AI is treasonous; how governments around the world are increasingly employing internet shutdowns as a political tool; and what to do about the fact that Android is increasingly rife with malware. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/peter-thiel-google.html https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/
S4 Ep23: STOLEN HEADLINES #2 ‘Treason & Trust’
August 26, 2019 13:26 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this second installment of Stolen Headlines, cybersecurity experts Sean Lynch and Adam Burns discuss why Peter Thiel thinks Google's co-operation with China on AI is treasonous; how governments around the world are increasingly employing internet shutdowns as a political tool; and what to do about the fact that Android is increasingly rife with malware. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/peter-thiel-google.html https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/
S4 Ep22: How To Hack A Democracy, With Audrey Tang (Pt.1)
August 08, 2019 08:18 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBThis is the first of a two-part interview with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan. We discuss Taiwan's 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, which marked the first time the country's legislature has been occupied by citizens, and which led to a radical new phase for Taiwanese democracy. How have digital networks facilitated the emergence of horizontal power and leaderless organization in Taiwan? Is the continuous participation in Taiwan's ongoing experiment in direct democracy responsible ...