Episode 189 - Yan Zhu
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Technology fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Yan Zhu (@bcrypt) joins Matt and Andy to dig deep into online security, privacy, encryption, HTTPS Everywhere, podcast patent trolls, Privacy Badger, the Tor browser, the future of online ads, Edward Snowden, the Silk Road, the upcoming Probably Science live show at SF Sketchfest on January 14th and a bonus audio snippet about Yan's legendary landlord.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:02.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshan. I'm sat next to Andy Wood. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, it's cozy in here. It is cozy. We're indoors. It's late at night. It's cold outside and we skipped a week. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm sorry about that, everyone, but Thanksgiving happened and this job got on top of us. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah. I think we're allowed that. It's a holiday. I hope so. I hope so. But I know people, |
| 0:31.1 | I know what it's like with my podcast when I think the other ones that I listen to and sometimes you go to the feed and you're looking forward to the new episode dropping and it's not there. So I'm sorry, but I hope you'll |
| 0:40.9 | forgive us. Yeah. It's, it's, uh, it's, yeah, it's a holiday. It is a lot. It's going to say |
| 0:47.6 | the same thing. We're still, we should both apologize because we're, we're both still a little bit hung over from Thanksgiving. I'm at the peak of my abilities. |
| 0:55.4 | I've never felt finer. |
| 0:57.9 | It was a fun Thanksgiving. |
| 0:59.0 | It was one of the more fun ones I've had in town. |
| 1:02.2 | Thanks to you letting me tag along to some of your friends' activities. |
| 1:06.1 | Got to play some pinball, watch some Back to the Future trilogy. |
| 1:09.0 | We did. |
| 1:09.9 | Had some good chats, including some |
| 1:11.6 | with some people who might be on the show at a later date. Yeah, yeah. Some good science talk, |
| 1:15.4 | but I should introduce our guest. This is someone, I think, is this, no, this is like the second |
| 1:21.2 | or third guest that we've had on that's come from a chance burning man encounter. Oh, |
| 1:25.3 | wait, that's true. And actually, the Thanksgiving crew we were with last night was... |
| 1:28.7 | That is also a chance burning man encounter. |
| 1:30.7 | So I guess for someone who... |
| 1:32.7 | There was one day, it was... |
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