Internet Privacy and the Cost of Losing Control

Internet users, the companies who sell us our devices, and governments are all caught up in the struggle to protect our privacy. In this episode, Bert Hubert explains how outsourcing and other market forces determine the flow of control over online data and why we need to understand the consequences.

Show notes:

01:00 - PowerDNS

01:04 - I highly recommend Bert’s excellent blog berthub.eu!!

02:42 - Bert on joining TIB (oversight board for the Dutch intelligence and security services)

02:58 - Bert on leaving TIB

03:30 - Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

03:40 - George Orwell’s Why I Write

05:31 - RIPE NCC’s response to the NIS2 directive

10:00 - Bert talking about End to End Encryption for the European Internet Forum at the European Parliament

14:27 - Trinity college research on scale of data sharing from Android devices

32:31 - More on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on RIPE Labs here and here

34:00 - Incidentally, Bert was co-author of RFC 5452

34:50 - Bert and Corrine Cath on SIDN’s decision to outsource some of its services to AWS (in Dutch)

41:10 - Read about recent developments with the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

48:00 - Bert on climate change (again, highly recommended!)

54:30 - Business for geeks at NLNOG

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