Joseph Cox, Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, joins us to talk about the world of encrypted phones.
Books
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The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593276486/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1593276486&linkCode=as2&tag=tunn01-20&linkId=0a8ee2ca846534f77626757288d77e00
Extreme Privacy:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0898YGR58/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0898YGR58&linkCode=as2&tag=tunn01-20&linkId=575c5ed0326484f0b612f000621b407f
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Sources
Creepy surveillance
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm-JkRIgz1E
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160253710A1/en
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541669/OfficeMax-sends-grieving-father-shocking-letter-addressed-daughter-killed-car-crash.html
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/19/how-stores-use-your-phones-wifi-to-track-your-shopping-habits/
Encrypted Phones
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m4pj/the-network-vincent-ramos-phantom-secure
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-05/phones-stymie-police-efforts-to-prevent-underworld-crime/5301256
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/3dyaqk/dutch-cops-say-theyve-decrypted-pgp-messages-on-seized-server
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd3km/sky-ecc-hacked-fake-app
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9yjx/sky-ecc-decrypted-hacked-police-say-billion-messages
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz4yxa/encrypted-phone-company-mpc-helped-martin-kok-murder
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d3dx/doj-charges-anom-influencers-fake-honeypot-company
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7e733/anom-fbi-andrew-young-encryption-honeypot
Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
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Audio cleanup by Proximity Sound.
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Equipment
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Transcript
[START OF RECORDING]
JACK: I’m mad. I’m honestly really upset about the current state of our mobile phone options. I want privacy and security when it comes to my communication devices, and I often lie to myself and say that’s the single most important feature of a phone. I don’t want anyone eavesdropping on what I do when I’m on my phone, but the reality is, every single thing I do on my phone is being recorded and sent somewhere.