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Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about Digital Convergence. Links mentioned: https://puri.sm/posts/investing-in-real-convergence/ Show notes: 00:00:32 Today we're talking about the idea of Convergence 00:04:36 Green on black Linux is COOL! --Kyle R. 00:07:01 The realization of adaptive design and how do others handle it 00:10:28 Law enforcement can subpoena your iCloud content straight from Apple 00:12:55 The fundamental problem Apple and Goole have according to Kyle 00:15:17 What is the hassle developers are already living with??? 00:21:53 What do people really want? 00:27:23 Doc is using metaphors to make an interesting point 00:37:12 You can't lock users to use only your product 00:40:36 The advantages of open source 00:42:21 Steve Ballmers key to success 00:49:26 Would you give your child a single non-trackable device "To rule them all"? 00:53:59 Digital parenting advice all parents need to understand! 00:57:25 The difference between parental control and eliminating the trai

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman continue their conversation with Dave Huseby, Hyperledger (https://www.hyperledger.org/)'s Security Maven, about user sovereignty and decentralization, open source culture, cryptography, respectful technology, and more. For more about Dave's projects, keep an eye on: https://vi.rs https://virs-group.slack.com https://medium.com/@dwh_3562 Show notes: 00:01:27 The importance of individual sovereignty, autonomy, independence, liberty etc. 00:03:50 Linus doesn't take s#!t off of anybody... 00:06:15 The legislative power shifts 00:11:30 Wizards vs Moguls vs Geeks, who leads the way?! 00:15:03 "Garage Engineering", it's a thing... 00:20:00 Dave's take on passion vs. paycheck 00:21:41 Passion projects 00:31:03 Challenging the power structure, divorcing traffic from it's originators and recipients 00:33:21 Going into cryptography 00:36:54 Social rituals that Facebook has totally F'd up 00:41:32 "Second Life" 'nuff said... 00:43:30 So what are we going to do with that information??? 0

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dave Huseby, Hyperledger (https://www.hyperledger.org/)'s Security Maven, about User Sovereignty and Decentralization, Hyperledger, blockchain and security. Special Guests: Dave Huseby and Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/) about contact tracing, digital identity, hacking, privacy, and regulation. Show notes: 0:00:25: Contact tracing apps 0:02:31: Contract tracing false positive and false negative 0:04:24: Contract tracing apps adoption rate 0:07:36: Katherine agrees apps should build more trust 0:11:44: The 2nd anniversary of the GDPR 0:13:31: Bruce talks about his RSA presentation about the notion of hacking 0:15:26: Katherine dove tails hacking into contact tracing 0:18:24: Hacking discipline around SSI (Self Sovereign Identity) 0:19:08: Should we need proof of immunity or carry an immunization card/immunity passport? 0:23:28: Do the people we entrust to regulate our tech even understand it? 0:29:10: Should we give the FBI digital forensic capabilities? 0:32:24: Katherine wonders if our cellphones are at all secure 0:36:33: Doc ponders the future of travel 0:38:18: Bruce predicts we're in the midst of a major system reset 0:46:49: The politic

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Robert Douglass of Platform.sh (https://platform.sh/) about self-hosting collaboration tools, and other current privacy topics. Show notes: 0:00:54: Introduction to a couple of tools 0:02:04: Doc's take on Zoom. 0:05:13: A lot of what we do online is not especially private. 0:06:33: Apple and Google and contact tracing. 0:09:00: Healthcare is a B2B insurance business. 0:11:15: Health information and advertising. 0:13:04: Convenience versus privacy. 0:13:26: SaaS products and convenience, Facebook, Apple. Concerns of the individual versus the concerns of the many. 0:15:46: The inevitable part where we go dark. 0:16:02: We're in the weirdest moment in modern civilization. 0:20:36: Radio, Internet, Television and Trump. 0:22:21: Bill Gates. 0:23:45: SaaS collaboration tools and privacy. 0:27:20: Who can you trust with your data, especially during a pandemic among questionable actors. 0:28:00: Mattermost 0:30:23: NextCloud 0:31:07: Jitsi 0:33:19: Cost differences. 0:38:31

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin, Petros Koutoupis, and Shawn Powers about the new realities we're facing as a result of COVID-19. Show notes: 0:04:08: How is this situation a little bit different from what we're used to? 0:04:36: E-learning 0:06:00: Shawn on e-learning and computer-based training. 0:08:09: Kids without computer or internet access. 0:11:31: What is lockdown? What’s on the horizon? 0:14:14: Remote work, how to do it well. 0:16:22: What can distributed open source software teams teach everyone? 0:17:35: This is not normal right now. Don’t judge remote work. 0:18:56: The chicken suppression system's working. 0:25:12: Asynchronous communication, time zones. 0:27:19: This plague may be elevating the Big Bad companies. 0:30:21: Ethical and privacy concerns. 0:35:20: Should harvested data be used to save lives? 0:37:29: Apple privacy 0:37:49: Fourth amendment concerns. 0:39:11 Facial recognition. 0:43:12 Law enforcement and Clearview AI. 0:44:12: What is the step too far? What a

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman speak with Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin from the All the Music project, allthemusic.info (http://allthemusic.info), a project that has machine-generated all possible melodies and released them to the public domain. We discuss music copyright in the digital landscape and musical math and humanity. We highly recommend watching Damien's TEDx Minneapolis talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU Get the code (https://github.com/allthemusicllc/) Notes: [01:15] Introduction to All the Music Project [03:50] How do you see it put to use? [06:20] How were the melodies discovered? [08:00] copyright law and alternate arguments. [9:30] discussion of public domain works [11:00] Discussion of Damien’s TEDx Minneapolis talk. [13:00] Copyright, un-copyrightable, and public domain [14:30] How can/should people contribute to the project? [19:00] How have people responded to this digital music copyright project? [23:00] Notable music copyright lawsuits [28:00] Should data be propert

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin, CSO of Purism (https://puri.sm/), about mobile phones, their security and privacy vulnerabilities, and Purism's new Librem 5 (https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/) device. Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Norman, one of the world's most influential designers, about data privacy, the cult of Apple, hero complexes, and climate change. Special Guest: Don Norman.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis discuss the Open Source Cloud landscape, weigh in on Open Source communities and contribution, and open multiple beers. Petros tells us how he really feels about systemd. Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk about ownership, freedom, and convenience in the digital world. Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin, Purism (http://puri.sm) CSO, about Ring doorbells and consumer privacy. Links: Here's How Amazon's Ring Doorbell Police Partnership Affects You (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2019/08/06/heres-how-amazons-ring-doorbell-police-partnership-affects-you/#2b4100af67a6) Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant, report says (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/police-can-get-your-ring-doorbell-footage-without-a-warrant-report-says/) Amazon’s Ring Is a Perfect Storm of Privacy Threats (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/amazons-ring-perfect-storm-privacy-threats) Amazon's Ring camera raises civil liberties concerns: U.S. senator (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-ring-markey-idUSKCN1VQ2QW) Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Chris Davis of adwaterandstir.com about his Arduino-based Altair 8800 replica kits. Links mentioned: http://adwaterandstir.com Going Retro with an Altair 8800 Emulator: Introducing the Altair-Duino (https://koutoupis.com/2019/08/12/going-retro-with-an-altair-8800-emulator-introducing-the-altair-duino/) Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, and co-author of Super Thinking and Traction. Special Guest: Gabriel Weinberg.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Yiftach Shoolman, CTO and Co-founder of Redis Labs, about Redis, Open Source licenses, company culture and more. Download ogg format Links mentioned: Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend Redis Labs and the "Common Clause" Redis Labs Changing Its Licensing for Redis Modules Again... Redis Labs’ Modules License Changes Special Guest: Yiftach Shoolman.

Katherine Druckman talks to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about building your own kernel, kernel panics, and other projects. Download in ogg format Links mentioned: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kernel-issue Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about moving from Mac to Linux. Download ogg format Links Mentioned: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Applicationwishlist https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-laptop-buyers-guide Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti, of Mozilla and formerly of Linux Journal, about ad technology, privacy, and the Linux community. Download ogg format Links Mentioned: http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Alex Gounares of Polyverse Linux about Cybersecurity for everyone. Download in ogg format

Doc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola  Long Island. Download OGG format Links Mentioned: The Kids Take Over