An open-source security platform w/ Zach Herbert from Foundation

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A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…

about a year ago 1:10:09

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1. An open-source security platform w/ Zach Herbert from Foundation (00:00:00)

2. Zach (re-)introduces himself (00:01:52)

3. What led to the creation of Passport Prime? (00:06:00)

4. What is Prime? What is a "personal security device"? (00:16:38)

5. What OS will Prime run on, and what are it's core security features? (00:30:32)

6. We have our entire digital security on Prime... now how do we back up and restore that? (00:42:34)

7. Prime isn't quite ready yet -- how can people get involved before launch? (00:57:53)

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An open-source security platform w/ Zach Herbert from Foundation

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published about a year ago

MP3•Episode home

More about Zach

Zach’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/zach-herbert/

More about Foundation

Foundation's website -- https://foundation.xyz/
Foundation's X account -- https://twitter.com/FOUNDATIONdvcs/

Supporting Opt Out

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Chapters

1. An open-source security platform w/ Zach Herbert from Foundation (00:00:00)

2. Zach (re-)introduces himself (00:01:52)

3. What led to the creation of Passport Prime? (00:06:00)

4. What is Prime? What is a "personal security device"? (00:16:38)

5. What OS will Prime run on, and what are it's core security features? (00:30:32)

6. We have our entire digital security on Prime... now how do we back up and restore that? (00:42:34)

7. Prime isn't quite ready yet -- how can people get involved before launch? (00:57:53)

46 episodes

#Tech #Seth Simmons #Privacy #Cryptocurrency #Surveillance #Data-sovereignty #Open Source Software #FOSS

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The next step for VPNs w/ Carl Dong from Obscura 1:02:22

7 weeks ago1:02:22

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The VPN paradigm has grown stale, with simple one-party providers being the best available. But what if we could further minimize trust by shift to a two-party hop system? Obscura is doing just that, and we’re sitting down with their founder Carl Dong to learn all about it. More about Carl Carl’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/carl-dong/ More about Obscura Website: https://obscura.net/ Obscura’s Twitter: https://x.com/obscuravpn Technical Blog Post on Obscura: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/ iCloud Private Relay: https://www.apple.com/icloud/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Overview_Dec2021.pdf MASQUE at the IETF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/masque/about/ Supporting Opt Out Donations – https://optoutpod.com/donate Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Can AI be private? w/ Marks from OpenSecret 54:46

7 weeks ago54:46

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AI is all the rage, but with it come new privacy questions and concerns. Marks from OpenSecret joins to walk us through how we can have our AI-generated cake and eat it too. More about Marks Marks’ guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/marks/ More about OpenSecret and Maple AI OpenSecret’s website – https://opensecret.cloud How does OpenSecret work? – https://blog.opensecret.cloud/opensecret-technicals/ Maple AI’s website – https://trymaple.ai Supporting Opt Out Donations – https://optoutpod.com/donate Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Improving SimpleX w/ Evgeny from SimpleX and Daniel Keller from Flux 1:07:44

16 weeks ago1:07:44

1:07:44

Two years after our first episode on SimpleX, we’re back with an update on all they’ve been working on, including a new approach to chat relays with Dan from Flux. More about our guests Evgeny’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/evgeny-poberezkin/ Dan’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/dan-keller/ More about SimpleX Website – https://simplex.chat/ Quantum-resistant encryption blog post – https://simplex.chat/blog/20240314-simplex-chat-v5-6-quantum-resistance-signal-double-ratchet-algorithm.html “Privacy-preserving content moderation” blog post – https://simplex.chat/blog/20250114-simplex-network-large-groups-privacy-preserving-content-moderation.html Network operator monetization plans – https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/docs/rfcs/2024-04-26-commercial-model.md Run your own SimpleX SMP server – https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq More about Flux Website – https://runonflux.com Flux’s new AI product – https://ai.runonflux.com/ Supporting Opt Out Donations – https://optoutpod.com/donate Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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An open-source security platform w/ Zach Herbert from Foundation 1:10:09

22 weeks ago1:10:09

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If you're frustrated by the need for multiple hardware wallets, security keys, two-factor applications, or even phones and looking for an easier way to secure your digital life, Foundation has just what you need. Zach Herbert, co-founder and CEO of Foundation, joins me to talk through their latest product, Passport Prime, and how they're seeking to lower the barrier of entry to proper digital security with a single open-source security platform. More about Zach Zach’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/zach-herbert/ More about Foundation Foundation's website -- https://foundation.xyz/ Foundation's X account -- https://twitter.com/FOUNDATIONdvcs/ Supporting Opt Out Donations – https://optoutpod.com/donate Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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How Kagi is fixing search w/ Vlad Prelovac 45:42

25 weeks ago45:42

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Ever wondered why your Google search results are so bad? Looking for an alternative that puts your interests first instead of an ad company’s? Today we chat with Vlad Prelovac, founder of Kagi, a new type of search engine that rethinks finding information on the internet from the ground up. More about Vlad Vlad’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/vlad-prelovac/ More about Kagi Kagi’s website – https://kagi.com/ Orion, Kagi’s fast, zero-telemetry browser for macOS and iOS – https://browser.kagi.com/ Supporting Opt Out Donations – https://optoutpod.com/donate Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Bitcoin and Ossification w/ Jameson Lopp 1:20:16

26 weeks ago1:20:16

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We get to the bottom of what ossification is, why it's harmful to Bitcoin to push for premature ossification, and why we need to improve the building blocks available to developers to enable trustless and useful layers to be built on Bitcoin. More about Jameson: Jameson's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/jameson-lopp/ More about ossification: Lopp's recent blog post: https://blog.lopp.net/on-ossification/ Lopp's debate with Jimmy Song on ossification: https://x.com/LuganoPlanB/status/1855321782581924245 Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Proton Wallet w/ Andy Yen 54:38

42 weeks ago54:38

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I sit down with Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton, to discuss the release of Proton Wallet, the decision to focus on Bitcoin despite its lack of privacy, why they don't accept Monero, and much more. More about Andy: Andy's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/andy-yen/ More about Proton Wallet: Website: https://wallet.proton.me/ Launch blog post: https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch Bitcoin via email primer: https://proton.me/support/wallet-bitcoin-via-email Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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SimpleX chat and how privacy aligns with the future of computing w/ Evgeny from SimpleX 1:35:44

2 years ago1:35:44

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Heard of SimpleX chat and curious what it's all about? This episode, we're sitting down with Evgeny, the founder of SimpleX Chat to talk about SimpleX, privacy, data sovereignty, and the future of computing. More about Evgeny: Evgeny's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/evgeny-poberezkin/ More about SimpleX: Website: https://simplex.chat/ Chat protocol: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/docs/protocol/simplex-chat.md Whitepaper, including threat modeling: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protocol/overview-tjr.md Run your own SimpleX SMP server: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq Opt Out's Sponsors: Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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How FediMints could ease onboarding and privacy in Bitcoin w/ Eric Sirion and Matt Odell 1:32:02

3 years ago1:32:02

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This episode, we're sitting down with Eric Sirion and Matt Odell to chat about FediMints, a fascinating and unusual new proposal that seeks to ease onboarding and privacy on Bitcoin with important trade-offs. More about Eric Sirion and Matt Odell: Eric Sirion's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/eric-sirion/ Matt Odell's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/odell/ More about FediMints: Website -- https://fedimint.org/ Github Organization -- https://github.com/fedimint FediMints Telegram room -- https://t.me/+-AsKtcH4Geo2ZTU0 Citadel Dispatch episode feat. FediMints -- https://citadeldispatch.com/cd45/ Opt Out's Sponsors: Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Special: Live YouTube Q&A! 1:42:35

3 years ago1:42:35

1:42:35

Welcome to the first ever live Q&A on Opt Out! We covered a ton of topics ranging from personal privacy, self-hosting, Bitcoin, Monero, privacy-preserving donations, future plans for the podcast, and much more. Thank you to all those who joined live, and please let me know if you have any questions or want to dive more deeply into any of the topics we touched on here! Mentioned resources: https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/how-monero-uniquely-enables-circular-economies/ https://localmonero.co/knowledge/remote-nodes-privacy https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/ https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/privacy-first-steps/ https://sethforprivacy.com/about/#my-community-resources https://optoutpod.com/episodes/s1e08-sean-obrien/ Opt Out's Sponsors: Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Private messaging via Session w/ Kee Jefferys 1:11:57

3 years ago1:11:57

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Looking to explore alternatives to Signal and heard of Session, but not sure what sets it apart? This episode, we're sitting down with Kee Jefferys, CTO of Session, to chat about their Session messenger and it's approaches to chat, encryption, and network privacy. More about Kee Jefferys: Kee's guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/kee-jefferys/ More about Session: Website -- https://getsession.org/ Twitter -- https://twitter.com/session_app Github -- https://github.com/oxen-io Non-profit behind Session -- https://optf.ngo/ Running an OXEN node -- https://docs.oxen.io/using-the-oxen-blockchain/oxen-service-node-guides/full-service-node-setup-guide Opt Out's Sponsors: Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Anonymous SIM cards via Silent.Link 38:01

3 years ago38:01

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Have you been struggling to find ways to get a usable and long-lasting phone number without giving up your ID or privacy? This episode, we're sitting down with Silent.Link to chat about their phone number service via eSIMs. More about Silent.Link: Website -- https://silent.link/ Twitter -- https://twitter.com/silentlink1 Matrix -- matrix://@support:silent.link Email -- support@silent.link Opt Out's Sponsors: Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider -- https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Monerotopia conference special w/ Douglas Tuman 42:43

3 years ago42:43

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This episode, we're taking a break from the normal structure of Opt Out to focus on a conference I'll be attending and speaking at in April, Monerotopia, and learn more about it from the creator, Douglas Tuman. More about Douglas Tuman: Douglas' guest profile -- https://optoutpod.com/guests/douglas-tuman/ More about Monerotopia: April 7th, 2022 – Miami Beach, FL Website -- https://monerotopia.com/ Buy a ticket ASAP -- https://monerotopia.com/product/majority-ticket/ Supporting Opt Out: Donations -- https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Self-hosted search via Whoogle w/ Ben Busby 59:07

3 years ago59:07

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Looking for a privacy-preserving and light-weight search tool that you can self-host? This episode, we’re sitting down with Ben Busby to chat about his project, Whoogle search. More about Ben Busby: Ben’s guest profile – https://optoutpod.com/guests/ben-busby/ More about Whoogle: Github – https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search Installing Whoogle – https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#install My Whoogle instance – https://search.sethforprivacy.com/ Opt Out’s Sponsors: Cake Wallet, an easy to use Monero mobile wallet – https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#cake-wallet LocalMonero, an excellent and privacy-preserving way to buy and sell Monero – https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#localmonero IVPN, an ethical, no-nonsense, non-logging VPN provider – https://optoutpod.com/sponsors/#ivpn Supporting Opt Out: Donations – https://optoutpod.com/about/#donations Leave a review on your favorite podcast platform, if possible! Share it with your friends, family, and other communities! Support the show…

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Taking back your data via Nextcloud w/ Jos Poortvliet 1:38:34

3 years ago1:38:34