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Techlore
Someone's making decisions about your digital life without asking. Techlore helps you take them back: privacy, security, and digital rights, made simple enough for anyone. Hosted by Henry Fisher.
Episodes
TechloreIs Local AI as Private as You Think? - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreIntroducing a NEW Free & Open Source Office Suite (CEO Interview)
Henry chats with Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek about Euro-Office, branding, and the hundreds of apps now built on top of Nextcloud. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS •…
TechloreThe US Wants To Block Websites, And Your VPN Won't Help
Congress now has two site-blocking bills, and one of them would force VPNs and encrypted DNS providers to block websites for Americans. Plus: ShinyHunters…
TechloreHow Do You Prepare Encryption for Q-Day? - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreThe Nonprofit Fighting to Keep DNS Private (Quad9 Interview)
DNS quietly reveals everywhere you go online - even on encrypted sites. In this interview, John Todd (CTO at Quad9) provides a DNS masterclass: how DNS works…
TechloreRevolut Just Had the Most Embarrassing Data Breach
A hacker emailed Revolut pretending to be a government agency, and Revolut handed over customers' passports, IDs, and financial details. Plus: the global…
TechlorePassword Manager Tier List 2026. Do you agree with the list?
Don’t take the tiers too seriously 👀 The full explanation behind each ranking is on Techlore’s YouTube channel. Full video linked to this Short. Do you agree…
TechloreEveryone's New Apple Watch Is Listening To You Now? - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreThe ID Check Company That Leaked 153 Million Licenses
An ID-verification company, IDScan.net, appears to have leaked scans of 153 million driver's licenses, then sold on a dark-web market called Nexus. This week I…
TechloreThe ULTIMATE Proton Hardening Guide (Part 2)
Part 1 covered Proton Mail and your Proton account. This video covers the rest of the Proton suite: what to enable, what to ignore, and why. Thank you to…
TechloreWhy Is Privacy Treated Like a Personality Flaw? - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreCalifornia Age Verification: The Good, Bad & Ugly
In 2027, your operating system is going to ask how old you are. California's age verification law (AB 1043) takes effect January 1st, and AB 1856 just carved…
TechloreApple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone. Plus More VPN News
Four positive VPN stories in one week: Mullvad's new multihop modes, Obscura shipping on Windows, Apple quietly patching the iCloud Private Relay leak, and…
TechloreLessons from Police Interrogation & Being Deported from China (Josh Summers Interview)
Josh Summers spent a decade living in western China before 14 police officers showed up at his door, accused him of espionage, and confiscated every device his…
TechloreWhat Do You Do When Privacy Burnout Hits? - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreYour Friend Is Probably Wrong About Proxies & VPNs (Here's Why) - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreApple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP
Three cracks opened up in Apple's privacy story this week: iCloud Private Relay leaking real IP addresses through DNS prefetching, WebTransport, and passkeys…
TechloreThey're Mapping Every Surveillance Camera in America (DeFlock Interview)
Flock Safety is one of several companies quietly building a searchable database of everyone's car — no warrant required, and no way to opt out. In this…
TechloreComcast's New Router Feature Is Just Creepy
Comcast just turned millions of leased Xfinity routers into motion sensors that track movement through your home, and buried in the fine print is a clause…
TechloreIs age verification really the solution?
61% of Americans want tighter social media oversight, but is age verification really the solution? What do you think?
TechloreIs Mullvad Really Better Than Other VPNs? - Techlore Office Hours Live
Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time…
TechloreHow To Check What Any Website Is Doing With Your Data
You can look up exactly which companies are getting your data from any website for free, in about a minute. But the tool everyone's sharing right now…
TechloreSignal without a phone number?
New commits hint it could be coming and it may be paid. Still just speculation. Would you pay for it?
TechloreCalifornia Built a Delete Button for Your Data - Here's How It Works (Cal Privacy Interview)
California created a free service that deletes your personal information from over 600 registered data brokers. Tom Kemp, Executive Director of the California…
TechloreSignal's Largest Updates in Years Are Finally Here
Signal just shipped its largest set of updates in years: A second phone can finally be a linked device, automatic key verification is rolling out alongside…
TechloreDid The Steam Deck Breach Hit You? Here's What To Do
Steam Deck and Framework owners both got caught in data breaches, but the plot twist is neither company was actually hacked. Both leaked through upstream…
TechloreThe Password Manager that Redefined KeePass (Strongbox Interview)
Once you use Strongbox, a community favorite KeePass client, it's hard to use anything else. Alex Logan is the VP of Engineering at Applause, the company…
TechloreThe AI Hacking Scandal That Keeps On Giving...
OpenAI's rogue AI agent turned out to have hacked more than Hugging Face, and the more details come out, the less impressive it seems. Then Anthropic came…
TechloreMeet Firefox Nova: A First Look at the New Design
Firefox just shipped its biggest redesign in six years, and it's already live in Nightly. I put regular Firefox side-by-side with the new Nova UI to show you…
TechloreThe ULTIMATE Guide to Protect Yourself from Chat Control
A parent sends a photo of their sick child to a doctor, and ends up under police investigation... welcome to 1984. Initiatives like Chat Control and other…
TechloreFrance Just Banned Social Media For Under-15s
France just became the first country in Europe to ban social media for anyone under 15, the UK's incoming PM dropped the digital ID scheme entirely, and…
TechloreA Bizarre Debate Between Brave And Firefox Just Ended
Brave just shipped Containers, and Firefox just made them native, so the profiles-vs-containers debate that split these two browsers is finally over. This…
Techlore3 Scam Signs From a Malwarebytes Expert
Every major global event brings the same scam tactics wearing a new mask. In this interview, David Ruiz, journalist and privacy advocate at Malwarebytes…
TechloreEU Sneakily Passed Chat Control (What You Need to Know)
This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between a…
TechloreThe Open Source Wallet That Collects Zero Data (Cake Wallet Interview)
Your bank can freeze your account, block your transfers, and demand explanations for how you spend your own money. Cake Wallet founder & CEO Vik Sharma learned…
TechloreThe ULTIMATE Proton Hardening Guide
Proton has solid privacy & security out of the box, but a few tweaks can take the safety of your Proton account to the max: 2FA, Proton Sentinel, metadata…
TechloreThe UK Wants Your ID To Use The Internet
The UK just confirmed it's doubling down on the under-16 social media ban, and VPN restrictions might be next. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans say they support…
TechloreWhich Password Manager Should You Actually Use? (2026 Tier List)
Your password manager is the most sensitive piece of software in your tech stack. It holds everything - your email, banking, work credentials, health records…
TechloreApple Just Downgraded A Key Privacy Feature
Apple is quietly downgrading Hide My Email...moving generated aliases to a new subdomain that makes it easy for apps and websites to detect and block anyone…
Techlore3 Apple Maps Alternatives That Can't Sell You Out
After years of recommending Apple Maps as a more private Google Maps alternative, that recommendation just got more complicated, because Apple Maps is getting…
TechloreThe Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About (John Ozbay Interview)
End-to-end encrypted file sharing may sound simple, but for Cryptee, it took five years to ship. In this interview, Henry sits down with John Ozbay, founder…
TechlorePermission Not Required: The Open Source App that Makes the Invisible Visible (Loupe Review)
App tracking is mostly invisible, but now there's a free & open source iOS app that changes that. Loupe shows you what any app on your iPhone can quietly…
TechloreThe BEST and WORST VPNs for Privacy (2026 Tier List)
Your VPN sees every site you visit, every app you use, and every search you make. Choosing the wrong one means trading your ISP's surveillance for something…
TechloreMeta Hid Face Recognition on 50 Million Phones
Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called "nametag" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then deleted it…
TechloreHow to Tell if an App Is Actually Secure (Most Aren't)
Most apps claiming to be "private and secure" are using language that sounds meaningful but commits to almost nothing. I broke this down after watching a Shark…