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EP 19 23:52
Your phone call might have traveled 22,000 miles through space with zero protection, and someone with an $800 satellite dish could have heard every word. A new study from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland intercepted real, unencrypted satellite backhaul: voice calls, text messages, login…
EP 7 13:39
Your TV is not just a screen. It's an ad tech computer with a giant display, and it's hungry for your viewing data. Automatic content recognition fingerprints what's on screen, even over HDMI from your cable box or console. App usage and button presses get logged as telemetry. Advertising IDs…
EP 2 19:00
You type an address, hit enter, and a page shows up. Or it doesn't, and you have no idea why. This episode walks through everything that actually happens in between: cache checks, DNS lookups, TLS handshakes, and packets hopping across routers and fiber before your page assembles on screen. The…