| Rebuilding US Government Tech | audio-episode | Two US government developers discuss the destructive changes in Trump's second term | Mon May 05 2025 | 5 | 46 | Format: online-interview | Theme: US radical regime change and destructive effects on digital services | Tags: tech-politics government-digital-services overreach doge trump insider-threats
| Watching The Watchers: | audio-episode | Examination of privacy scandals involving Tesla automobiles, Ring doorbells and Roomba vacuum cleaners | Sat Jul 01 2023 | 1 | 12 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: mass surveillance via IoT and connected smart devices | Tags: audio-only hidden-cameras loveint stalking digital-privilege tesla-cars roomba-cleaners ring-doorbells privacy explicit
| UK Election | audio-episode | Discussion on voting influence and incentives, election fraud, extreme parties, | Sun Jun 02 2024 | 3 | 29 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: democracy and influence | Tags: special audio-only topical democracy fraud influence motives extremism
| Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson | audio-episode | analysis of Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson | Wed May 17 2023 | 1 | 02 | Format: reflections reading | Theme: difficulty of detecting deeply embedded malware | Tags: reflections audio-only compilers malware obfuscation steganography
| Technopoly | audio-episode | Discussing the rise of technofascist US tech companies and personality cults | Fri Feb 14 2025 | 5 | 40 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: Toxixity of US Big Tech | Tags: classic-cybershow social-media network-coup technofascism the-nerd-reich broligarchy foreign-influence corruption audio-only topical explicit
| Technologically Facilitated Abuse | audio-episode | Dr. Kate Brown talks to Dr. Rose MacDonald, one of Australia's top digital forensic detectives. | Fri Feb 21 2025 | 5 | 41 | Format: online interview | Theme: practical approaches tp spousal abuse | Tags: smartphones personal-safety women spouseware bossware abuse domestic-violence digital-forensics investigation cloud internet-of-things audio-only australia
| Money, Personality and Technology Dictators | audio-episode | What makes US tech leaders such thoroughly unpleasant sorts? | Sat Jun 24 2023 | 1 | 11 | Format: on-the-go | Theme: megalomania wealth technofascism ambition personality | Tags: onthego audio-only psychology big-tech technofascism nerd-reich explicit
| Technology Addiction | audio-episode | The second of our Art, Music and Poetry audio series themed on addiction to tech. | Fri Sep 15 2023 | 2 | 17 | Format: art music and poetry | Theme: addiction to technology | Tags: artmusicpoetry audio-only poetry technology addiction obsession
| International Sysadmin Day | audio-episode | This international sysadmin day, to celebrate all sysadmins around the world, and our official Cyber Show Launch, Helen interviews Matt, a Windows sysadmin in the UK of 21 years, and Lucas, a fresher Linux Sysadmin in the US. | Fri Jul 28 2023 | 1 | 15 | Format: multi-interview | Theme: Life and adventures of a sysadmin | Tags: tools command-line sysadmin duties maintenance stories international-sysadmin-day
| Stop Gen AI | audio-episode | Kim Crawley of StopGenAI.com discusses the main issues with Cybershow | Sun Aug 03 2025 | 6 | 52 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Artist resistance against generative technology | Tags: Categories: audio-only civic-cybersecurity economics politics capitalism value human-values
| 6 Dumbest Ideas: Action is Better Than Inaction | audio-episode | Calm and measured response is better than jumping in and making a drama into a crisis. | Thu Jun 22 2023 | 1 | 10 | Format: reflections | Theme: measured response and moderation | Tags: reflections analysis audio-only
| 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Educating Users | audio-episode | questioning the effectiveness of training users to adapt to insecure systems | Wed Jun 21 2023 | 1 | 09 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: the limits of end-user training | Tags: reflections audio-only security-training mindset limits default-secure
| 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Hacking is Cool | audio-episode | questioning the motives to train cybersecurity operators | Tue Jun 06 2023 | 1 | 06 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: cultivating responsibility and seriousness | Tags: reflections audio-only security-training mindset
| 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Penetrate and Patch | audio-episode | critical thoughts on the value of pentesting in real systems | Mon Jun 05 2023 | 1 | 05 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: pentesting is just one useful but never-ending tool | Tags: reflections audio-only security-testing design correctness proving
| 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Enumerating Badness | audio-episode | Impossibility of enumerating all weaknesses and the value of defence in depth and resilience | Sat Jun 03 2023 | 1 | 04 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: there's always one more bug | Tags: reflections audio-only testing enumeration contingency design-for-failsafe
| 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Default Permit | audio-episode | Challenging the primacy of identity as convenience | Thu Jun 01 2023 | 1 | 03 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: counterintuitive ideas and misunderstandings in security | Tags: reflections audio-only access-control identity blacklisting
| What is the SASIG? | audio-episode | Today is the 21st Big SASIG conference. What is the Security Awareness Special Interest Group (SASIG) ? Helen and Andy talk to Martin Smith MBE about the history, function, philosophy and future of this much needed British cybersecurity forum. | Thu May 08 2025 | 5 | 47 | Format: online interview | Theme: security community | Tags: community SASIG mutual-support professionalism mental-health
| Inscrutable Systems Part 2 | audio-episode | Commentary on the UK Horizon post office scandal | Sun Feb 18 2024 | 2 | 24 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: corruption | Tags: corruption law correctness software-engineering responsibility victim-blaming
| Inscrutable Systems Part 1 | audio-episode | Commentary on the UK Horizon post office scandal | Wed Feb 07 2024 | 2 | 23 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: corruption | Tags: corruption law correctness software-engineering responsibility victim-blaming
| Play On: Cybershow Music Radio | audio-episode | Mini-EP of three music pieces on a digital technology theme by Cybershow UK | Sun Feb 01 2026 | 7 | 56 | Format: art-music-poetry | Theme: musical tracks | Tags: art music poetry audio-only
| Paid in Full | audio-episode | How can we be assured payments tech isn't ripping us off? | Mon Dec 16 2024 | 4 | 36 | Format: online discussion | Theme: payments industry | Tags: POS fraud card-fraud financial-regulation hardware-hacks digital-currency privacy
| Owned By Bots | audio-episode | Banter on the unstoppable "AI" hype machine | Fri Jan 24 2025 | 5 | 38 | Format: radio show magazine | Theme: tech hype and bullshit | Tags: classic-cybershow audio-only topical bots hype media-barrage explicit
| UK Online Safety Bill | audio-episode | Feature length episode kicks-off Season 2 by looking into the long awaited but controversial online safety bill. | Fri Sep 01 2023 | 2 | 16 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: protection of children form digital harms | Tags: special audio-only law child-safety social-media explicit
| Online Dating | audio-episode | The business of online dating and the reality of successful long term relationships. | Mon Oct 30 2023 | 2 | 20 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: online dating apps | Tags: inthechair audio-only social-change lonliness love-scams stalking data-trading
| The Negotiator | audio-episode | Great insights into extortion motivated attacks from a top ramsomware negotiator | Mon Dec 09 2024 | 4 | 35 | Format: online discussion | Theme: keeping your nerve and out-guessing the opponent | Tags: ransomware negotiation insider-threat triple-ransom wiper-attacks
| Technology and Mental Health | audio-episode | General on-the-go chat including topics on smartphone overuse | Fri Jun 16 2023 | 1 | 08 | Format: on the go | Theme: smartphone overuse as a cause of anxiety | Tags: on-the-go audio-only explicit
| The Mega-Big Picture | audio-episode | A "big picture" analysis with Dr. Megha Kumar | Fri Feb 27 2026 | 7 | 60 | Format: online-discussion | Theme: Technology global trends | Tags: international-treaties global-affairs audio-only politics humane-tech environment critical-infrastructure technofascism legislation regulation
| Measuring Security | audio-episode | Discussion about automation of compliance and vulnerability estimation | Thu May 07 2026 | 7 | 63 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Using machine learning to estimate system security | Tags: audio-only in-the-chair legislation regulation safety cybersecurity machine-learning language-models
| Mad Times | audio-episode | Discussion of world events, rising technofascism and loss of civil values | Tue Mar 10 2026 | 7 | 61 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: disintegrating integrity and coherence of world leadership in the digital age | Tags: audio-only technofascism united-states far-right social-media disinformation culture society mental-health explicit
| Kids And Tech | audio-episode | Prescient interview based episode investigating tech use by children | Thu Jul 20 2023 | 1 | 14 | Format: voxpop/live | Theme: how young people experience digital technology | Tags: kids screen-time tech-supervision tech-addiction digtal-learning digital-harms
| Grow your own ISP | audio-episode | We talk to Cris Verinder, founder of internet companies on the Isle of Wight | Fri May 01 2026 | 7 | 65 | Format: online-discussion | Theme: starting and building an internet service provider business | Tags: audio-only isp business growth rural-economy microwave satellite backhaul billing community-isp bandwidth-costs
| In The Air | audio-episode | Rob Demain speaks about security and resilience in the aviation industry | Thu Nov 13 2025 | 7 | 55 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Safety critical software and resilience | Tags: audio-only resilience air-travel software-quality lo-tech-fallback incident-response safety critical-infrastructure continuity-of-operations resilience
| Hope Scrolling | audio-episode | Dr. Aaron Balick talks with Dr. Kate Brown about the construction of the digital-self, from pyschosis to hope-scrolling. | Mon Feb 09 2026 | 7 | 58 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Psychological effects of technology | Tags: psychology digital-harms social-media
| Halloween: Hacked or haunted? | audio-episode | Spine-chilling Halloween Cybershow delves into the eerie intersection of technology and the paranormal. | Thu Oct 31 2024 | 4 | 30 | Format: special studio | Theme: scepticism paranormal | Tags: special halloween topical explicit
| GNU Health | audio-episode | Luis Falcon MD talks about GNUHealth and why the world needs software for hospitals and GPs that is not linked to Big TEch | Sun Apr 12 2026 | 7 | 64 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Medical software that respects freedom and privacy | Tags: in-the-chair interview free-open-source-software health-technology privacy dignity personal-data distributed-systems federated-systems science research research-methods
| Fixing The System - Part 2 | audio-episode | Reading and analysis of the work of Meadows and Forrester. Covers communications paths and delays. | Fri Dec 01 2023 | 2 | 21 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: applying systems theory to digital crises | Tags: reflections audio-only systems-thinking ecology communications delays
| Fixing The System - Part 1 | audio-episode | Reading and discussion of Dana Meadows' Leverage Points | Fri Oct 13 2023 | 2 | 19 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: applying systems theory to digital crises | Tags: reflections audio-only systems-thinking ecology
| Dude, where's my Internet? | audio-episode | Pondering the descent of mainstream web into vanity, narcissism, influence, disinformation, surveillance and general hell. | Sat Jun 10 2023 | 1 | 07 | Format: on-the-go | Theme: declination story of online culture | Tags: on-the-go audio-only culture decline moral-values commercialisation explicit
| Disappearing Worlds | audio-episode | Musings on disappearing norms and objects displaced by changing technology | Fri Mar 15 2024 | 2 | 25 | Format: radio show magazine | Theme: change | Tags: cybershow-radio audio-only man-shouts-at-cloud change progress regression explicit
| Digital Parenting: Invisible Harms | audio-episode | An fairly comprehensive exploration of mental, physical and social harms | Fri Feb 06 2026 | 7 | 57 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: Looking after the mental health of young people who use digital technology | Tags: audio-only child-safety kids-online social-media digital-parenting digital-sovereignty
| Digital Sovereignty and International Cyber-Relations | audio-episode | What is digital sovereignty? We talk about the changing control of platforms, standards, regulation. | Mon Nov 11 2024 | 4 | 31 | Format: online discussion | Theme: changing power balance of tech | Tags: governance power platforms standards USA self-determination nationalism foreign-affairs
| Digital Self Defence | audio-episode | Investigation of how people feel about cyber threats and how to respond. | Fri Oct 06 2023 | 2 | 18 | Format: on-the-go | Theme: Everyday perspectives on civic cybersecurity | Tags: onthego audio-only civic-cybersecurity vox-pops ncsc civil-defence policy
| Digital Compliance | audio-episode | First episode of Season 5 in 2025, Helen and Andy speak with Luke Dash and Sam Peters from ISMS.online about whether regulation can protect us — or if it risks backfiring, leaving us more exposed in the battle for digital security. | Wed Jan 08 2025 | 5 | 37 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Keeping up with new European legislation | Tags: inthechair law directives audio-only topical tradeoffs
| Default Denied | audio-episode | Discussion of whitelisting as an access control method | Mon Nov 18 2024 | 4 | 32 | Format: online-interview | Theme: whitelisting as a strategy | Tags: inthechair audio-only default-deny whitelisting
| Cyberwar | audio-episode | With the cast of 'Midnight In The War-Room', a Thomas LeDuc feature length documentary on cyber war. | Mon Mar 16 2026 | 7 | 62 | Format: magazine-analysis | Theme: digital conflict and film-making | Tags: audio-only digital-conflict cybercrime defence politics psychology electronic-warfare psychological-operations-(military)
| CENSOR*ED | audio-episode | Tara Garcia Mathewson of The Markup discusses digital censorship in schools colleges and universities. Modern day book-burning is rampant and its harming education. How our schools are ruled by fear and BigTech decides what kids can learn. | Wed Dec 04 2024 | 4 | 34 | Format: online discussion | Theme: education and freedom | Tags: audio-only digital-rights censorship education
| It's not closed. It's not a circuit. It's not even television. | audio-episode | A critique of pervasive over-bearing CCTV surveillance | Mon Apr 29 2024 | 3 | 26 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: surveillance camera epidemic | Tags: audio-only explicit
| Botslayer | audio-episode | A new generation of network bots is upon us. James Sherlow, Systems Engineering Director at Cequence Security talks to Dr. Andy Farnell about attacks on APIs and how intelligent behavioural monitoring can help in the fight. | Mon Feb 10 2025 | 5 | 39 | Format: interview | Theme: cybersecurity defence | Tags: machine-learning-ai blueteam audio-only topical
| Best Laid Plans | audio-episode | Helen and Andy chat about plans for show and state of online podcasting | Sun Feb 15 2026 | 7 | 59 | Format: studio | Theme: meta general-banter plans-for-show | Tags: meta explicit audio-only banter explicit
| Attachment to technology | audio-episode | An extended discussion on attachment and technology | Sat May 06 2023 | 1 | 01 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: attachment theory and addictive relationships with technology | Tags: audio-only inthechair attachment-theory psychology technology relationships mediation
| Securing Data At Rest | audio-episode | Specific focus on cryptographic needs for mobile and smart medical devices | Tue Aug 12 2025 | 6 | 53 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Cryptography libraries for securing disk-bound data | Tags: audio-only privacy dignity personal-data cryptography smart-devices wearables
| Algorave | audio-episode | Featuring guest Stephen Monslow AKA fakedac~/M-onz alongside our regular Robert Thomas. We talked again about AI in music, PureData, Arts hacking, Generative music, Reactive music, VJing and visual synthesis, DJ culture and much more. With some musical interludes | Tue Nov 26 2024 | 4 | 33 | Format: online discussion | Theme: Art, Music and Poetry | Tags: art music dj generative-music live-performance
| AI in Music | audio-episode | Andy talks to Robert Thomas about creativity, AI, generative and reactive music. How will music evolve as an art form? | Fri May 10 2024 | 3 | 28 | Format: online audio interview | Theme: music technology | Tags: audio-only creativity reactive-music generative-music
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