The Digital Resilience Show: Recent Episodes
David Wild
Today Europe is at the start of a potentially major war that could spread beyond the boundaries of Ukraine. In particular, the risk of a widespread and worldwide cyberwar is realistically on the table. Today I am giving tips for securing your money, files, computer and communications against potential cyberwar.
What you need to know about Web3 and blockchain technologies such as NFTs, dVPN, and IPFS, and how they will impact digital resilience
How much privacy is enough? This is a question a lot of privacy advocates are asking. In this epiode I present a new five-layer privacy framework to help you decide how much privacy you need in different circumstances.
How do you stay digitally resilient when traveling and away from home? As we prepare to cautiously start traveling again, today I'm going to cover what everyday carry (EDC) gear you might consider having in your backpack to ensure you are digitally resilient wherever you are.
In this episode we explore everything to do with protecting your images and videos. Do you know how to keep them safe and secure? What could images you post on social media reveal about you? Answers in this show.
Today we are looking at technologies that are not Internet connected, or that allow you to function without using the Internet. This includes various forms of radio, mesh networks, and ways to store and access files without the Internet.
Wecome to the gear episode. Today we are going to geek out and talk about digital resilience gear, and some carefully thought out recommendations for equipment you might consider buying if you have a bit of money left over from your stimulus check (for US listeners).
How do you decide what the priorities are for your digital resilience? How much resilience is enough? How many backups do you need? How much privacy do you need? Today I describe a way to make those decisions through a process called Threat Modeling
We have a really special show for you today. We are joined by Rakesh Bharania, a worldwide expert in rebuilding technology after a disaster, to talk about the situation in Texas, cascading infrastructure failures, and what you can do to prepare yourself and your community for infrastructure failure.
We all depend on multiple online services every day for basic life functions such as shopping, doing our taxes, having meetings. But how do we know if these services are digitally resilient? In this episode we are going to be talking about how to evaluate online services for our four dimensions of digital reilience: reliability and redundancy, sercurity, privacy and control, and how to have a robust digital resilience strategy for using online services.
You have probably all seen the the hilarious viral video where a lawyer in an online court on Zoom appears as a cat avatar. This is the latest of a long list of embarrasing things that have happened when people have inadvertently crossed over different parts of their lives, in this instance presumably letting a kid use their work computer. In this episode, we talk about compartmentalization, and how it can increase your digital resilience by keeping different parts of your life separate.
In this episode we are going undercover! I explain a strategy for keeping your basic information like your name, address, cellphone number and email private, by having alternate sets of information that you can give out.
In this episode I explain the Gamestop Reddit saga, and use that to bring up some key lessons about digital resilience and money, including the differences between online services, banks, bitcoin and cash.
What would happen if your hard drive failed or you lost access to your Google or Apple account? In this episode I describe four technologies and three backup strategies you can use to make sure that your files, photos, videos, email and social media content are safe.
The events of the last few weeks have brought up numerous issues relating to the vulnerabilities of our digital lives. In this episode I define digital resilience and give three steps you should take now to reduce your vulnerability on social media and the cloud.