The Disentanglement Podcast

20-Secure Private Encrypted Email

In which we discuss what exactly the point would be of paying for email that is both private and end-to-end encrypted, even when the party on the receiving end doesn't have an equally private and encrypted email service provider.

19-Down the Internet Rabbit Hole

This semi-confessional episode is for all of you who have lost an hour online for no good reason and do no good thing. Or two hours. Or possibly four.

18-Invasive International Travel Apps

In which we detail what it took to get from our country of origin back to our country of residence in this era of covid monitoring and surveillance devices in everyone's pocket.

17-Auto Surveillance

In which we spook ourselves about how much our cars are tracking information about us and reporting back to headquarters.

16-Traveling Semi-Incognito

In which we regale you with our efforts not to be tracked during our summer travels, and when the surveillance systems caught us off guard anyway.

15-Medicine and Mandatory Fields

In which we update you on summer camp software, then observe the ways that the digitalization of medical records forces you to answer questions you don't want to and participate in clinical trials you don't consent to.

14-What If Summer Camp Software Turned Out to Be Evil?

In which we revisit the topic of deleting online accounts, and the enormous difficulty of avoiding creating new ones, followed by extended ranting and raving at summer camp software and what prime pickings it is for both security and privacy breaches.

13-Reforming Tech Use in the Household

In which we discuss how we unknowingly got suckered into household-unfriendly tech practices, how we noticed them, how we reformed them, and how it's really an ongoing process. The earbud ends up being the villain of this story, strangely enough.

12-Reforming Tech Use at School

In which we discuss the multi-year process of arousing interest in digital tech issues at our child's school, and how we finally got some traction.

11-How We Blew Our Cover Distributing This Podcast

In which we describe all the steps we took to keep our identity private in distributing this podcast, and how we are so deeply entangled in so many web systems that our cover got blown anyway, which is a frankly ridiculous thing to worry about since voice recognition means we couldn't keep our identity a secret if anyone was really determined to figure it, but still.