| audio-episode | Measuring Security | Discussion about automation of compliance and vulnerability estimation | Date:Thu May 07 2026 | Season: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
| navigation | Cyber Show Home | Start here | Date:Wed May 06 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: site | Theme: Home landing page for Cybershow | Tags: entry-point landing home
| article | Not one of us | An account of sofware freedom and security as everyday action | Date:Wed Jan 01 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: US tech leaders behave disgracefully and make other technologists feel ashamed of what we do by association. | Tags: technology behaviour freedom humane-technology technofascism stereotypes quiet-struggle-for-good
| article | Freedom Fighters (Part I) | An account of sofware freedom and security as everyday action | Date:Sat Feb 22 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Defending technology for social good means becoming a freedom fighter | Tags: freedom resistance choice activism technofascism free-software quiet-struggle
| audio-episode | Disappearing Worlds | Musings on disappearing norms and objects displaced by changing technology | Date:Fri Mar 15 2024 | Season:2-25 | Format: radio show magazine | Theme: change | Tags: cybershow-radio audio-only man-shouts-at-cloud change progress regression explicit
| audio-episode | It's not closed. It's not a circuit. It's not even television. | A critique of pervasive over-bearing CCTV surveillance | Date:Mon Apr 29 2024 | Season:3-26 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: surveillance camera epidemic | Tags: audio-only explicit
| audio-episode | Grow your own ISP | We talk to Cris Verinder, founder of internet companies on the Isle of Wight | Date:Fri May 01 2026 | Season: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
| article | Moral competence | A Heideggerian account of moral competence as what technofascism seeks to annihilate. Moral competence is therefore a powerful weapon in the fight against technofascism. | Date:Sun Apr 26 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Calm and quiet moral competence of the few must overcome dizzy excitement of of capital | Tags: psychology nonchalance morals competence seriousness technofascism foreign-influence hegemony domination
| information | Notes for our guests on Cybershow (updated) | Help for guests to get the best possible show quality | Date:Fri Apr 24 2026 | Season:-1000 | Format: text | Theme: help and FAQs | Tags: info faq quality procedure fallback communications formats
| article | Every time you say "AI" a kitten dies. | Changing our vocabulary can change negative perceptions of technology | Date:Fri Apr 24 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Intensity of "AI" hype has reached stupid and destructive proportions | Tags: "AI" terminology hype marketing concepts significance
| audio-episode | The Negotiator | Great insights into extortion motivated attacks from a top ramsomware negotiator | Date:Mon Dec 09 2024 | Season:4-35 | Format: online discussion | Theme: keeping your nerve and out-guessing the opponent | Tags: ransomware negotiation insider-threat triple-ransom wiper-attacks
| audio-episode | What is the SASIG? | 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. | Date:Thu May 08 2025 | Season:5-47 | Format: online interview | Theme: security community | Tags: community SASIG mutual-support professionalism mental-health
| audio-episode | Algorave | 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 | Date:Tue Nov 26 2024 | Season:4-33 | Format: online discussion | Theme: Art, Music and Poetry | Tags: art music dj generative-music live-performance
| audio-music-poetry | New World Disorder by Joel Kabakov | In this Art, Music and Poetry edition Andy reads a short collection of poems by Joel Kabakov. | Date:Mon Jul 17 2023 | Season:1-13 | Format: Art, Music and Poetry | Theme: technofascism | Tags: artmusicpoetry audio-only technofascism
| audio-episode | Botslayer | 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. | Date:Mon Feb 10 2025 | Season:5-39 | Format: interview | Theme: cybersecurity defence | Tags: machine-learning-ai blueteam audio-only topical
| article | Gemini Adventures | Building a Gemini Capsule for Cybershow | Date:Tue Apr 21 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: news | Theme: meta development | Tags: emacs org-mode gemini-protocol
| article | What "AI" means (part 2) | Seeing through the shell of "AI" marketing speak | Date:Thu Apr 16 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Analysing how people use and misuse the term "AI" | Tags: "AI" terminology hype marketing concepts significance
| article | At sea with technology | As civilian and military tech converge we can't have it both ways with tech and safety. | Date:Thu Apr 16 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: militarisation of civilian tech obviously brings dangers | Tags: strategic-limitation military civic-cybersecurity public-interest
| audio-episode | GNU Health | Luis Falcon MD talks about GNUHealth and why the world needs software for hospitals and GPs that is not linked to Big TEch | Date:Sun Apr 12 2026 | Season: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
| article | What "AI" means now | "AI" is a now term of propaganda not technology | Date:Fri Apr 10 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: The meaning of "AI" becomes clearer. It has nothing to do with progress. | Tags: words meaning epistemology propaganda technology definition change
| article | Fantasy versus reality | "AI" is just the most recent step in a fugue from reality | Date:Sun Mar 22 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: reality-confrontation gamification realpolitik landing-with-a-bump
| article | Art or wank? | "AI" is the modern art period for computing. | Date:Sat Mar 21 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: programming progress art technology truth correctness culture software-engineering
| article | Political thinking on the Cybershow | The Cybershow is not about Software Freedom, it is such an obvious good we simply assume the necessity of it. | Date:Fri Mar 20 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: politics, morals and common sense | Tags: meta difference disputation democracy politics foundational-ideas software-freedom digital-rights solidarity alignment cybershow entertainment
| article | You can't say that! Until suddenly you can. | People are afraid to name evil until others speak up too | Date:Fri Mar 20 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Resistance against "AI" and technofascism is natural, justfied and growing louder | Tags: speech difference censorship norms tall-poppies jante-law percepticide resistance latency memes spiral-of-silence
| audio-episode | Cyberwar | With the cast of 'Midnight In The War-Room', a Thomas LeDuc feature length documentary on cyber war. | Date:Mon Mar 16 2026 | Season: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)
| humour | Creepy creeps discover creepiness | Blaming the victim while stating the bleedin obvious is really uncool | Date:Fri Mar 13 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Junk research as apologetics for technofascism is getting worse | Tags: awful-research quackery academic-fraud surveillance digital-marketing technofascism apologetics sarcasm-is-the-lowest-form-of-wit
| audio-episode | Mad Times | Discussion of world events, rising technofascism and loss of civil values | Date:Tue Mar 10 2026 | Season: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
| article | Technology Plan B | "AI" is a political assult on the humen so its financial collapse will be huge opprtunity for humane tech | Date:Mon Mar 02 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Self-esteem in the age of machines | Tags: human-value software-freedom contingency AI-bubble labour power dehumanisation suicide
| article | The New Digital Literacy | We must create empowering language to fight technofascism | Date:Sun Mar 01 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: The importance of literacy for understanding technology | Tags: democracy technology language action civic cybersecurity technofascism
| article | Good tech never dies | All durable and good things become public commons-culture in the end | Date:Sun Mar 01 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Retro and vintage arcade entertainment is timeless and lives on | Tags: retro-games arcade fun maintenance repair restoration gaming entertainment computing culture retro
| audio-episode | The Mega-Big Picture | A "big picture" analysis with Dr. Megha Kumar | Date:Fri Feb 27 2026 | Season: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
| article | Time to pull the plug? Or just rewire it? | Action groups opposing toxic tech, "AI" and technofascism are growing in size and number | Date:Fri Feb 27 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: protest, boycott, vocal opposition to "AI" | Tags: nil
| article | Acceleration sickness | We are outpacing our own capacity. Much too much, much too young. | Date:Tue Feb 24 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: nil
| article | The new meaning of robots.txt | A robots.txt file should warn crawlers of countermeasures | Date:Sun Feb 22 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: deterrence proportionality digital self defence boundaries crawlers robots
| audio-episode | Best Laid Plans | Helen and Andy chat about plans for show and state of online podcasting | Date:Sun Feb 15 2026 | Season:7-59 | Format: studio | Theme: meta general-banter plans-for-show | Tags: meta explicit audio-only banter explicit
| article | Any space will do | meeting in non-commercial free, real places is essential for a healthy society | Date:Sun Feb 15 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: human meeting spaces are the foundation of peaceful society | Tags: film place race offline solidarity community healing commons
| audio-episode | Hope Scrolling | Dr. Aaron Balick talks with Dr. Kate Brown about the construction of the digital-self, from pyschosis to hope-scrolling. | Date:Mon Feb 09 2026 | Season:7-58 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Psychological effects of technology | Tags: psychology digital-harms social-media
| article | Freedom from ThE B0llOcKS | Can we ever speak clearly about digital technology? | Date:Sun Feb 08 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Challenging lazy and deceptive language around tech | Tags: politics language bollocks clarity bullshit avoidance intellectual-self-defence techn-critique
| audio-episode | Digital Parenting: Invisible Harms | An fairly comprehensive exploration of mental, physical and social harms | Date:Fri Feb 06 2026 | Season: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
| audio-episode | Play On: Cybershow Music Radio | Mini-EP of three music pieces on a digital technology theme by Cybershow UK | Date:Sun Feb 01 2026 | Season:7-56 | Format: art-music-poetry | Theme: musical tracks | Tags: art music poetry audio-only
| news | NOP | ** | Date:Sun Feb 01 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: meta, ramblings, GPG still sucks, don't give your kids "AI" | Tags: heartbeat we-are-re-still-alive digital-sovereignty digital-self-defence kids
| article | Rorschach Computing | "AI" can't compute | Date:Tue Jan 20 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: systems that tell you what you want to hear and show you what you want to see offer nothing new or useful | Tags: psychology "AI" patternicity expectation heuristics
| article | Why I'm Not Suing Anthropic | reflections on massive scraping by "AI" companies | Date:Tue Jan 20 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: The worst kind of criminals | Tags: intellectual-property corporate-theft scraping bots
| article | Always crashing in the same car | : Bad technology is a preventable social harm. Genuine informed democratic choice in technology and planning is essential for a safe sustainable future | Date:Mon Jan 05 2026 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: technology is as much about choice as capability | Tags: technology choice ethics education influence policy planning democracy
| article | Inappropriate language | Rob Pike was right to be offended by fake AI praise. Fake-people (language models) can't be sincere. | Date:Mon Dec 29 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: shallowness and insincerity | Tags: language ethics depth psychology sincerity
| article | Cybershow Christmas Message | Moral revolution through a technology lens | Date:Thu Dec 25 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: revolution as profound generational and cultural change | Tags: ethics politics Reith-lecture software digital-rights revolution
| article | Tender Love and Care (for our technology) | Why fixing things is a joy and a way to help the planet | Date:Mon Dec 15 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: right-to-repair maintenance ownership rights capitalism
| article | Bum education | Schools and universities are failing to offer the necessary foundation for a technological society | Date:Tue Dec 02 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Digital literacy is getting worse, "AI" and eductech is to blame | Tags: compsci education degeneracy
| article | Psychoanalysis in reverse | How digital technology makes people mentally unwell | Date:Sat Nov 22 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Negative psychological effects of connected tech | Tags: mental-health wellness software AI politics society
| audio-episode | In The Air | Rob Demain speaks about security and resilience in the aviation industry | Date:Thu Nov 13 2025 | Season: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
| audio-only | Train Without Pain | Loyalty works better than fear. The positive psychology and obtaining buy-in instead of threatening people. | Date:Tue Nov 04 2025 | Season:7-54 | Format: online-interview | Theme: how to avoid counterproductive security training | Tags: audio-only psychology training education user-behaviour humane-tech
| article | Digital Inclusion Coffee Morning Part 2: Wake up and smell the exclusion. | Our digital inclusion coffee morning revealed huge cracks in British technological society that fails to serve older, young and less able citizens. | Date:Thu Oct 02 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: taking back tech for the people | Tags: strategy diversity digital-sovereignty antifascist politics freesoftware civildefence
| article | Bistrotech: The Riddle Of The Cubes | How technology fails the food and hospitality industry | Date:Mon Sep 22 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Fancy techno gimmicks in catering and hospitality | Tags: food hospitality scams software service-industry payments point-of-sale coercion fraud
| article | Digital Inclusion Coffee Mornings | What real people say about their experience of digital technology | Date:Sat Sep 13 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Gathering opinions on digital technology in society | Tags: public-opinion voxpops help-and-information public-outreach
| article | Sorrybots: Rise of the apology industry | Saying sorry doesn't fix anything | Date:Sat Sep 06 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Why try when you can just apologise? | Tags: software-engineering failure service-industry help-and-informaton public-relations
| article | The Oracle and the Librarian | "AI" search is very different from traditional indexing and cannot substitute for it without grave harms to the knowledge ecology | Date:Sun Aug 24 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Search is qualitatively different from language model inference and summary | Tags: information-science epistemology truth propaganda search "AI"
| article | Technical Maturity | As we get older we think about technology differently, and that is good. | Date:Wed Aug 20 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Mature thinking about technology comes with age and experience | Tags: technology ageing douglas-adams truth philosophy critique
| audio-episode | Securing Data At Rest | Specific focus on cryptographic needs for mobile and smart medical devices | Date:Tue Aug 12 2025 | Season:6-53 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Cryptography libraries for securing disk-bound data | Tags: audio-only privacy dignity personal-data cryptography smart-devices wearables
| audio-episode | Stop Gen AI | Kim Crawley of StopGenAI.com discusses the main issues with Cybershow | Date:Sun Aug 03 2025 | Season:6-52 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Artist resistance against generative technology | Tags: Categories: audio-only civic-cybersecurity economics politics capitalism value human-values
| video-audio-episode | Civic Cybersecurity and Digital Self-Defence | Civic Cybersecurity and the work of Cybershow presented in context of a range of social and ecological issues | Date:Sat Jul 26 2025 | Season:6-51 | Format: live-public-presentation | Theme: Civic cybersecurity in the UK | Tags: audio-video live-show sustainability civic-cybersecurity digital-self-defence digital-rights politics environment waste-electronics WEEE
| article | Computers and the older generation | ** | Date:Sat Jul 26 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Age, expertise and computing | Tags: nil
| video-audio-episode | Hardware Security | Themes on trusted compute, enclaves, secure boot, lost phones, disk encryption and more | Date:Sat Jul 12 2025 | Season:6-50 | Format: in-person-interview | Theme: Basics of hardware security | Tags: video-audio
| video-episode | UK National Cyber Security Show | conversations with ICO, national police cyber training, pentesters, training providers and more | Date:Fri Jun 27 2025 | Season:6-49 | Format: on-the-go trade-event | Theme: visting NCSS and chatting with some vendors | Tags: video-only trade-show national-exhibition-centre
| video-audio-episode | Positive Security Thinking | Online discussion with Danny Jenkins | Date:Thu Jun 19 2025 | Season:6-48 | Format: online-interview | Theme: advantages of a zero-trust positive security model | Tags: audio-video interview positive-security whitelisting application-firewall capability-ringfencing
| audio-episode | Rebuilding US Government Tech Part 1 | Talk with US government sysadmins fighting DOGE | Date:Mon May 05 2025 | Season:5-46 | Format: online discussion | Theme: technofascist takeover of US government | Tags: audio-only special topical politics overreach
| audio-episode | Rebuilding US Government Tech | Two US government developers discuss the destructive changes in Trump's second term | Date:Mon May 05 2025 | Season: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
| video-audio-episode | Zero Trust Part Three. | Third and final part of coverage of ZTW conference in Florida 2025 | Date:Mon Apr 28 2025 | Season:5-45 | Format: on the go live event | Theme: zero trust technologies | Tags: audio-video special event zero-trust cybersecurity
| article | Creepy is the new cool | Avoidance, denial and expressed emotion around digital technology | Date:Fri Apr 25 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Is normalising of technologial horror the unspoken new job of the media? | Tags: social-harm propaganda "AI" psychology technofascism anti-humanism normalising airbrushing-harms
| article | Freedom Fighters (Part 3) | Commentary on the changing role of cybsersecurity from an organisational, procedural practice to an ideological calling and resistance movement. What does it mean for global civic stability if the US is abandoning civil cyber security for a centralised technofascist system? | Date:Thu Apr 17 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: cyber security is moving from a purely technical art to a political craft | Tags: cybersecurity civics digital-coup resistance technofascism infosec doge cve blog
| article | We Love USA | Europe can help USA restore democracy by helping to end BigTech. | Date:Thu Apr 10 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: solidarity | Tags: usa us-coup social-harm propaganda friendship special-relations shared-values action european-tech
| article | Rossfest | Cybershow went to Cambridge uni compsci to remember a great man | Date:Sun Apr 06 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Memorial gathering at Cambridge for Ross Anderson | Tags: cybersecurity infosec womenintech rossfest cambridge security-engineering memorial
| article | Cybersecurity is a resistance movement | Commentary on the changing role of cybsersecurity from a procedural practice to an ideological calling and resistance movement. What does it mean for global civic stability if the US is abandoning cybersecurity? | Date:Sat Apr 05 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: The changing nature of cyber-defence and new kinds of enemies | Tags: cybersecurity politics resistance technofascism infosec civics digital-coup doge
| video-audio-episode | Zero-Trust Part Two. | second part of coverage of ZTW conference in Florida 2025 plus commentary | Date:Wed Apr 02 2025 | Season:5-44 | Format: on the go live event | Theme: zero trust technologies | Tags: audio-video special event zero-trust cybersecurity
| article | Trouble at Mill | Trust in technology cannot be implied by trade and other political alliances. The global order is changing and we must adapt trust models in cybsersecurity too. | Date:Wed Mar 19 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Layer 10 and the new international zero-trust reality | Tags: cybersecurity bigtech digital-sovereignty digital-independence zero-trust
| video-audio-episode | Zero Trust Part One. | coverage of ZTW conference in Florida 2025 | Date:Mon Mar 17 2025 | Season:5-43 | Format: on the go live event | Theme: zero trust technologies | Tags: audio-video special event zero-trust cybersecurity
| video-audio-episode | Backdoors: UK Online Safety Bill Update | Analysis of serious faults in implementation of UK Online Saftey Act | Date:Wed Mar 12 2025 | Season:5-42 | Format: live discussion | Theme: dishonest and counter-productive motives in regulation | Tags: child-safety legislation spying backdoor overreach politics explicit
| article | Digital Brutalism | A critique of the word 'efficieny' as a political football | Date:Wed Mar 05 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: efficiency is a lie | Tags: "AI" technofascism humanism democracy freedom propaganda
| audio-episode | Technologically Facilitated Abuse | Dr. Kate Brown talks to Dr. Rose MacDonald, one of Australia's top digital forensic detectives. | Date:Fri Feb 21 2025 | Season: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
| article | Death to efficiency | A critique of the word 'efficieny' as a political football | Date:Mon Feb 17 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: efficiency is over-rated excuse for greed and laziness | Tags: efficiency excuses dehumanisation technofascism propaganda
| audio-episode | Technopoly | Discussing the rise of technofascist US tech companies and personality cults | Date:Fri Feb 14 2025 | Season: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
| audio-episode | Owned By Bots | Banter on the unstoppable "AI" hype machine | Date:Fri Jan 24 2025 | Season:5-38 | Format: radio show magazine | Theme: tech hype and bullshit | Tags: classic-cybershow audio-only topical bots hype media-barrage explicit
| article | Eating your own dog food | nil | Date:Tue Jan 14 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: nil
| article | A shortwave radio message from the last man on Earth | What comes after Big Tech and Internet 1.0? | Date:Fri Jan 10 2025 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Internet of the future | Tags: disintegration splinternet failing-communication internet digital-sovereignty post-america
| audio-episode | Digital Compliance | 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. | Date:Wed Jan 08 2025 | Season:5-37 | Format: online-interview | Theme: Keeping up with new European legislation | Tags: inthechair law directives audio-only topical tradeoffs
| humour | Gromit, we salute you! | Nick Park's Gromit is a better engineer than Elon Musk | Date:Tue Dec 31 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: What technologists can learn from a heroic cartoon role-model | Tags: fiction engineering values electronics-for-dogs
| audio-episode | Paid in Full | How can we be assured payments tech isn't ripping us off? | Date:Mon Dec 16 2024 | Season:4-36 | Format: online discussion | Theme: payments industry | Tags: POS fraud card-fraud financial-regulation hardware-hacks digital-currency privacy
| audio-episode | CENSOR*ED | 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. | Date:Wed Dec 04 2024 | Season:4-34 | Format: online discussion | Theme: education and freedom | Tags: audio-only digital-rights censorship education
| article | In the era of dubious contraptions | Is risk just the cost of innovation? Can we afford to let some people play fast and loose with the stability of civilisation when only profit is their real motoive? | Date:Thu Nov 28 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Risk taking in tech development is growing | Tags: trust competence risk real-knowledge opinion cavalier
| news | Cybershow News Autumn 2024 | A review and look forward | Date:Thu Nov 21 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: News about development of the show, podcast and blog | Tags: meta planning reflection
| audio-episode | Default Denied | Discussion of whitelisting as an access control method | Date:Mon Nov 18 2024 | Season:4-32 | Format: online-interview | Theme: whitelisting as a strategy | Tags: inthechair audio-only default-deny whitelisting
| article | Buy Nothing Day | Low quality cheap internet-enabled goods impact cybersecurity. Avoid buying them. | Date:Thu Nov 14 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Improve security and protest against rampant consumerism on Black Friday by buying nothing | Tags: hardware cybersecurity crap plastic e-waste excess environment boycott
| audio-episode | Digital Sovereignty and International Cyber-Relations | What is digital sovereignty? We talk about the changing control of platforms, standards, regulation. | Date:Mon Nov 11 2024 | Season:4-31 | Format: online discussion | Theme: changing power balance of tech | Tags: governance power platforms standards USA self-determination nationalism foreign-affairs
| article | After Cyberwar | nil | Date:Thu Nov 07 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: War, its beginnings, endings and memories | Tags: nil
| audio-episode | Halloween: Hacked or haunted? | Spine-chilling Halloween Cybershow delves into the eerie intersection of technology and the paranormal. | Date:Thu Oct 31 2024 | Season:4-30 | Format: special studio | Theme: scepticism paranormal | Tags: special halloween topical explicit
| article | Radical disbelief and its causes | ** | Date:Tue Oct 08 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: epistemic crisis | Tags:
| article | Seven for a secret never to be told | A robust and carefully argued defence of passwords as a superior form of digital security. | Date:Sun Sep 29 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: What you know will always be the most powerful form of security | Tags: trust timeless-craft trendy-security-fads fashion industry passwords-rock
| article | You're too stupid for technology. | Supposedly freedom-respecting organisations like Mozilla and Ubuntu take an increasingly disdainful and obtuse attitude. | Date:Sun Jul 14 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Patronising, cavalier and superior tech culture. | Tags: arrogance down-talk disrespect opaqueness bad-attitude
| article | Clown Computing | The circus of death is approaching. It's pathway is pained in red. Before it the frightened and helpless. Behind it a trail of the dead. | Date:Fri Jul 12 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Absurdity confusion magic technology | Tags: cloud breaches chaos razzle-dazzle showmanship absurd funny failure incompetence
| article | Computer security is a political struggle | Struggle for technological security is a new cold-war, not fough between super-power nation-states but beteen entirely new blocs of power. | Date:Wed Jul 03 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Technology is politics | Tags: power democracy people self-determination politics security freedom
| article | Endpoint sovereignty | The CrowdStrike outage was just the beginning of a sea-change in computer security. Either we actively own and defend our technology, or someone else will take it from us. | Date:Sat Jun 22 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Property, ownership, vare and responsibility | Tags: property ownership rights control repsonsibility private
| article | Flipping the cybersecurity narrative | Civic cybersecurity needs us to evolve our language and culture about security and threats. We must decide what we value and want to protect. It is much more than just personal data that's at risk. | Date:Thu Jun 06 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Civic cybersecurity | Tags: fear shame power community conviviality civic-cybersecurity
| audio-episode | UK Election | Discussion on voting influence and incentives, election fraud, extreme parties, | Date:Sun Jun 02 2024 | Season:3-29 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: democracy and influence | Tags: special audio-only topical democracy fraud influence motives extremism
| article | You Are Not The Only One | Telling people that they are the only one having a problem is standard practice for tech organisations that wish to force their world-view upon others | Date:Wed May 22 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Gaslighting by technology companies or governments to make people feel stupid | Tags: isolation divide-and-conquer misinformation gaslighting
| article | The WWW declares the end of Google | Favouring "AI" and military contracts Google has abandoned its mission to "organise the world's information". | Date:Mon May 20 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Google is no longer synonymous with Web | Tags: change brands google www slop search
| article | A coming cybersecurity schism? | Pretending that we all have a common understanding and shared interest in one vision of security is getting harder. We must re-find our commonality or admit our differences out loud. | Date:Sun May 19 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Different interests each interpret the idea of security their own way | Tags: divergence difference values social-bonds cybersecurity
| audio-episode | AI in Music | Andy talks to Robert Thomas about creativity, AI, generative and reactive music. How will music evolve as an art form? | Date:Fri May 10 2024 | Season:3-28 | Format: online audio interview | Theme: music technology | Tags: audio-only creativity reactive-music generative-music
| video-audio-episode | Cybercrime Roundup | Topical discussion of cybercrime events May 2024 | Date:Fri May 10 2024 | Season:3-27 | Format: studio live | Theme: online scams and phishing epidemic | Tags: special audio-video livestream topical online-crime scams
| article | A day out with ISSG | A trip to the telephone factory with British Computer Society and British Telecom for a cybersecurity conference | Date:Fri Apr 26 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: nil | Tags: ISSG conference cybersecurity
| information | Contact The Cybershow | How to contact the cybershow | Date:Mon Apr 22 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: text | Theme: nil | Tags: communication comments guests press email
| article | Chindogu: Every joke has a serious side | Chindogu, the Japanese art of the 'useless tool' can tell us a lot about our relation to technology. | Date:Mon Apr 22 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: nil | Tags: design japan psychology
| article | An unfortunate miscalculation of capital. | "AI" technology is fundamentally undermining education. For all it's material splendour capitalism seems to be eating itself very rapidly now. | Date:Wed Apr 17 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: "AI" by killing education will surely prove Karl Marx correct | Tags: education politics economics sustainability education collapse
| article | Code Exploits | Slave-like conditions of exploitation are moving from the factories of far-eastern hardware manufacure to western software houses. | Date:Fri Apr 12 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: capitalism, exploitation and working conditions | Tags: exploitation labour unions human-cost job-satisfaction happiness security
| article | Poison Code | Lone developers and small software companies are vulnerable to hostile actors trying to take-over to use their code as a malware platform | Date:Sat Apr 06 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Infiltration by hostile actors | Tags: trust supply-chain social-engineering developers vulnerability hostile-forks hostile-takeover malware coercion
| article | Principles not products | For complex reasons commercial products cannot secure the digital domain. The role of education, culture and government are the more important. | Date:Thu Apr 04 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Why we need more top-down security engineering. | Tags: education knowledge-is-power choice self-defence responsibility-to-know
| news | Space Weather on the way | Are elecromagnetic storms a threat to data integrity? Any simple steps to be cautious? | Date:Sat Mar 23 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: electromagnetic storms | Tags: physics data-integrity EMF EMP solar-flare
| article | Rethinking AI images on The Cybershow | Why we decided to stop using "AI" for episode cover images | Date:Fri Mar 22 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Reflection and change of heart on "AI" visual arts | Tags: noai art integrity authenticity solidarity
| information | About Cybershow | Background about the show, values, origins, mission, personnel. | Date:Sun Mar 03 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: text | Theme: nil | Tags: cybershow podcast blog education research interview tech-journalism critique
| article | Reflective practice in cybersecurity | Cybersecurity could benefit from reflective practice, a tool used in medical, military and other service disciplines | Date:Sun Mar 03 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Thinking and talking about our mistakes makes us stronger | Tags: reflective-practice education research training self-critique lessons-learned
| article | Scamicry: Deliberately putting customers at risk | Companies confuse customers and put them at risk by behaving like scammers | Date:Fri Feb 23 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Large corporations and cybercriminals are increasingly indistinguishable | Tags: scams communication phishing branding reputation trust
| article | Words Betray Us | enshitification is a word that hides a simpler truth | Date:Fri Feb 23 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: political language | Tags: language politics deception betrayal
| article | Security is love | nil | Date:Fri Feb 23 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: nil
| article | Security Scarecrows: Why cybersecurity without pentesting is like piloting without a plane. | For many security personnel the distance between what they know they should do and what they're allowed to do is immensely frustrating. | Date:Tue Feb 20 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Tokenism and security theatre | Tags: security-theatre placebo decoy sidelining moral-injury frustration professionalism
| audio-episode | Inscrutable Systems Part 2 | Commentary on the UK Horizon post office scandal | Date:Sun Feb 18 2024 | Season:2-24 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: corruption | Tags: corruption law correctness software-engineering responsibility victim-blaming
| article | Human-AI Hybrid Jobs | It's unlikely huans will "work with AI". Automation fundamentally alters labour relations. | Date:Wed Feb 14 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Employment and labour relations under accelerating automation | Tags: work value capital automation machine-learning human-values
| audio-episode | Inscrutable Systems Part 1 | Commentary on the UK Horizon post office scandal | Date:Wed Feb 07 2024 | Season:2-23 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: corruption | Tags: corruption law correctness software-engineering responsibility victim-blaming
| preview | The Inscrutable Systems of the British Post Office | Announcement of two part episode on the Horizon scandal | Date:Wed Feb 07 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: British Horizon Post-Office scandal | Tags: law scandal corruption legibility accountability digital-rights
| article | Calculating a cybersecurity budget | Spending and making plans for sustainable computer security is hard. Here's some of the factors to consider. | Date:Mon Feb 05 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: How to budget for cyber security | Tags: ciso infosec money priority change risk-management
| video-audio-episode | Fake Women in Tech | Ed and Helen speak to Mercy Ageitu, about "fake women in tech" | Date:Mon Jan 29 2024 | Season:2-22 | Format: studio discussion multi-cam | Theme: IT culture | Tags: labour-relations sexism glass-ceiling diversity equality gender
| article | AI and the election: a voters guide | Mass communication of social media plus "AI" is a deadly cocktail that undermines democracy. How do we fight back against it and take a slower more thoughtful approach? | Date:Sat Jan 20 2024 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: psychological attacks on democracy | Tags: influence the-algorithm social-media propaganda agitation fake-news
| audio-episode | Fixing The System - Part 2 | Reading and analysis of the work of Meadows and Forrester. Covers communications paths and delays. | Date:Fri Dec 01 2023 | Season:2-21 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: applying systems theory to digital crises | Tags: reflections audio-only systems-thinking ecology communications delays
| article | How do we teach Digital Self-Defence? | What do people think about personal responsibility in protecting themselves from malcious hackers and spying? Who should organise and pay for anti-cybercrime education? | Date:Sat Nov 04 2023 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Practicalities of civic cybersecurity and digital self defence | Tags: education civic-cybersecurity digital-self-defence voxpops public-opinion
| audio-episode | Online Dating | The business of online dating and the reality of successful long term relationships. | Date:Mon Oct 30 2023 | Season:2-20 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: online dating apps | Tags: inthechair audio-only social-change lonliness love-scams stalking data-trading
| audio-episode | Fixing The System - Part 1 | Reading and discussion of Dana Meadows' Leverage Points | Date:Fri Oct 13 2023 | Season:2-19 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: applying systems theory to digital crises | Tags: reflections audio-only systems-thinking ecology
| audio-episode | Digital Self Defence | Investigation of how people feel about cyber threats and how to respond. | Date:Fri Oct 06 2023 | Season:2-18 | Format: on-the-go | Theme: Everyday perspectives on civic cybersecurity | Tags: onthego audio-only civic-cybersecurity vox-pops ncsc civil-defence policy
| humour | Parrot versus Phone. Who wins? | Helen left her phone unguarded with her parrot | Date:Fri Sep 22 2023 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Pets destroy devices | Tags: fragility gadgets pets
| audio-episode | Technology Addiction | The second of our Art, Music and Poetry audio series themed on addiction to tech. | Date:Fri Sep 15 2023 | Season:2-17 | Format: art music and poetry | Theme: addiction to technology | Tags: artmusicpoetry audio-only poetry technology addiction obsession
| audio-episode | UK Online Safety Bill | Feature length episode kicks-off Season 2 by looking into the long awaited but controversial online safety bill. | Date:Fri Sep 01 2023 | Season:2-16 | Format: studio discussion | Theme: protection of children form digital harms | Tags: special audio-only law child-safety social-media explicit
| audio-episode | International Sysadmin Day | 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. | Date:Fri Jul 28 2023 | Season:1-15 | Format: multi-interview | Theme: Life and adventures of a sysadmin | Tags: tools command-line sysadmin duties maintenance stories international-sysadmin-day
| audio-episode | Kids And Tech | Prescient interview based episode investigating tech use by children | Date:Thu Jul 20 2023 | Season:1-14 | Format: voxpop/live | Theme: how young people experience digital technology | Tags: kids screen-time tech-supervision tech-addiction digtal-learning digital-harms
| audio-episode | Watching The Watchers: | Examination of privacy scandals involving Tesla automobiles, Ring doorbells and Roomba vacuum cleaners | Date:Sat Jul 01 2023 | Season: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
| audio-episode | Money, Personality and Technology Dictators | What makes US tech leaders such thoroughly unpleasant sorts? | Date:Sat Jun 24 2023 | Season:1-11 | Format: on-the-go | Theme: megalomania wealth technofascism ambition personality | Tags: onthego audio-only psychology big-tech technofascism nerd-reich explicit
| audio-episode | 6 Dumbest Ideas: Action is Better Than Inaction | Calm and measured response is better than jumping in and making a drama into a crisis. | Date:Thu Jun 22 2023 | Season:1-10 | Format: reflections | Theme: measured response and moderation | Tags: reflections analysis audio-only
| audio-episode | 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Educating Users | questioning the effectiveness of training users to adapt to insecure systems | Date:Wed Jun 21 2023 | Season:1-09 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: the limits of end-user training | Tags: reflections audio-only security-training mindset limits default-secure
| audio-episode | Technology and Mental Health | General on-the-go chat including topics on smartphone overuse | Date:Fri Jun 16 2023 | Season:1-08 | Format: on the go | Theme: smartphone overuse as a cause of anxiety | Tags: on-the-go audio-only explicit
| audio-episode | Dude, where's my Internet? | Pondering the descent of mainstream web into vanity, narcissism, influence, disinformation, surveillance and general hell. | Date:Sat Jun 10 2023 | Season:1-07 | Format: on-the-go | Theme: declination story of online culture | Tags: on-the-go audio-only culture decline moral-values commercialisation explicit
| audio-episode | 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Hacking is Cool | questioning the motives to train cybersecurity operators | Date:Tue Jun 06 2023 | Season:1-06 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: cultivating responsibility and seriousness | Tags: reflections audio-only security-training mindset
| audio-episode | 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Penetrate and Patch | critical thoughts on the value of pentesting in real systems | Date:Mon Jun 05 2023 | Season: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
| audio-episode | 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Enumerating Badness | Impossibility of enumerating all weaknesses and the value of defence in depth and resilience | Date:Sat Jun 03 2023 | Season:1-04 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: there's always one more bug | Tags: reflections audio-only testing enumeration contingency design-for-failsafe
| audio-episode | 6 Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: Default Permit | Challenging the primacy of identity as convenience | Date:Thu Jun 01 2023 | Season:1-03 | Format: reading and reflections | Theme: counterintuitive ideas and misunderstandings in security | Tags: reflections audio-only access-control identity blacklisting
| audio-episode | Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson | analysis of Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson | Date:Wed May 17 2023 | Season:1-02 | Format: reflections reading | Theme: difficulty of detecting deeply embedded malware | Tags: reflections audio-only compilers malware obfuscation steganography
| audio-episode | Attachment to technology | An extended discussion on attachment and technology | Date:Sat May 06 2023 | Season:1-01 | Format: studio-discussion | Theme: attachment theory and addictive relationships with technology | Tags: audio-only inthechair attachment-theory psychology technology relationships mediation
| article | Technology and madness | The pyschogenic (crazymanking) qualities of ubiquitous and quiescent digital technology | Date:Sat Jul 21 2018 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Paranoia and even sychosis is a natural reaction to certain forms of technology we intrinsically recognise as a predatory threat. | Tags: psychology evolution threat-identification stress madness toxic-tech
| article | The Hill | Technology is not neutral. It has character flaws. Meet Williams. | Date:Tue Mar 20 2018 | Season:nil-nil | Format: blog | Theme: Malevolent takeover | Tags: "AI" persona usurping insidiousness sidling tech-critique film drama
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