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Every major global event brings the same scam tactics wearing a new mask. In this interview, David Ruiz, journalist and privacy advocate at Malwarebytes, breaks down how to identify (and avoid) scams, stalkerware vs. nation-state spyware, and what privacy is actually about.
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• Malwarebytes: https://malwarebytes.com/
• Coalition Against Stalkerware: https://stopstalkerware.org/
• Citizen Lab: https://citizenlab.ca/
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://eff.org/
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Your bank can freeze your account, block your transfers, and demand explanations for how you spend your own money. Cake Wallet founder & CEO Vik Sharma learned this firsthand when trying to transfer $90 between his accounts. In this interview, he shares this story, along with the history of Cake Wallet, why financial privacy matters, the importance of decentralization, Bitcoin vs. Monero, silent payments, and more.
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• Cake Wallet: https://cakewallet.com/
• Monero by Cake Wallet: https://monero.com/
• Cupcake: https://cupcakewallet.com/
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End-to-end encrypted file sharing may sound simple, but for Cryptee, it took five years to ship. In this interview, Henry sits down with John Ozbay, founder and CEO of Cryptee, to talk through why: preventing CSAM, why client-side scanning doesn't work, how Cryptee's solution was designed to raise the barrier to mass spread without compromising encryption, and the broader philosophical question of where developer liability ends and moral responsibility begins.
🔗 SOURCES & LINKS
• Cryptee: https://crypt.ee
• Stop Chat Control: https://stopchatcontrol.eu
• Open Web Advocacy: https://open-web-advocacy.org
• EDRI: https://edri.org
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Firefox now has a free built-in VPN with 50GB of bandwidth per month. In this interview, Henry sits down with Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox at Mozilla, to break down exactly how it works, what Mozilla can and can't see, the difference between Firefox VPN and Mozilla VPN, and why no other major browser is likely to follow Mozilla's lead on this.
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• Firefox VPN: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/features/vpn/
• Mozilla VPN: https://www.mozilla.org/products/vpn/
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Most people know DuckDuckGo as a search engine, but they're also creating a full privacy ecosystem covering a browser, VPN, data broker removal, and app tracking protection. In this Techlore Talks interview, Henry sits down with Peter Dolanjski, Director of Product at DuckDuckGo, to cover what Google is actually collecting, why incognito mode doesn't do what most people think, how DuckDuckGo's contextual ads differ from Google's behavioral targeting, and more.
🔗 SOURCES & LINKS
• DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com
• Duck AI: https://duck.ai
• No-AI DuckDuckGo: https://noai.duckduckgo.com
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