Ask Noah Show

Masks are being debated around the US and around the world but what do they do for privacy? China has facial recognition software that works even with face masks but NIST has shown that's not always the case! F5 has a major vulnerability that is allows someone with network access to the configuration utility, through the BIG-IP management port and/or self IPs, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, disable services, and/or execute arbitrary Java code.

The European Court of Justice invalidates Privacy Shield. The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law. Pine phone has a convergence package, and the Linux Foundation now has an open source contract tracing app.

Frank Karlitschek Managing Director and Founder of NextCloud joins Noah to discuss the progress that NextCloud has made and how the community has shaped his views and goals. Funding costs have LibreOffice considering a "enterprise" vs "personal" edition, plus a device that will alert you to voice assistants spying on you!

The Btrfs team joins the Ask Noah Show to set the record straight. Btrfs is being used at Facebook and has been selected as the default filesystem for Fedora! The EARN-IT act is back with a second version, this one might be worse than the first.

Security and privacy is a moving target but ProtonMail is staying ahead of the curve. Join Dr. Andy Yen as he talks end to end encryption, the privacy aspect of protests, and the status and future of ProtonDrive!

SELF was remote this year but that means next year will be bigger than ever! More presenter rooms, more interaction from remote attendees. Jeremy Sands and producer JT join us this hour to discuss SELF and it's future. The CIA had it's biggest leak in history and underscores exactly why we need end to end encryption. Zoom announced it will be rolling out end to end encryption on ALL tiers!

Matrix is the communications platform you've been waiting for. Using Slack for work Telegram for an open network for secure, decentralized communication.

Questions have been raised about the Brave browser collecting BAT donations on behalf of users that didn't consent. Plasma 5.19.0 is out and FreeNAS has a new version based on Linux!

Rohan Karamandi joins us to talk about how to awaken your home with an open source automation system that puts local control and privacy first!

The Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM has been released, the state of MN is using contact tracing to track protesters instead of COVID, and Google wants your location data so bad it's willing to lie to you!