It is obvious to people who are aware of mass surveillance that we all are being watched. Anything digital is swept up, made Google-like searchable, connected to others and also events, regardless whether those connections are relevant or not.
We talk about our usual Minnesota tech stories but in our other top tech stories was one that caught our attention about Lavabit’s Ladar Levinson launching a new encrypted email service that is better than the original once used by Edward Snowden. Since email is usually core to how and what we communicate, obtain password resets, archive email attachments and much more that we want to keep secure from the government OR from companies that can scan our email (e.g., Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail), protecting our private and confidential communications is critical in this time of mass surveillance.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Houkago Stride by JubyPhonic under a CC by 4.0 License
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Tech company Spok adding 60 Twin Cities jobs
- Digi International makes another ‘cold chain’ buy
- Best Buy CEO swats down rumors he’s leaving
- Target reports weaker than expected holiday sales
- (Minnesota) Court rules against man who was forced to fingerprint-unlock his phone
- UPDATE: bar.com domain portfolio auction
Other Top Tech Stories
- Andy Rubin Nears His Comeback, Complete With an ‘Essential’ Phone
- Encrypted Email Service Once Used By Edward Snowden Relaunches
- Mention of Protonmail
- Trump said to elevate Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to FCC chairman
- Samsung will explain the Galaxy Note 7 explosions Sunday night
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: #istandwithrosa
- Tim: Xiaomi Mi Band 2
- Steve: Fasetto Link “A game-changing storage and connectivity solution.”
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Did you know that 
In Chinese philosophy and religion there are two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things. This week we experienced both with the Internet of Things (IoT): The 
One of the most interesting 
Justin Grammens is a founding partner of 
Quite an interesting set of stories to discuss this week and we also have on as our guest Mark Wilkie, CTO, for the new 
We’ve mentioned before how tech is accelerating and the “summer slowdown” we used to know (and how we’d struggle to find stuff to talk about in the summers of 2008 – 2010) has totally and completely abated. Technology innovation is moving at an ever-faster speed and is also compressing the time for these new innovations to be released. So hold on as we explore some topics that you will undoubtedly find interesting and compelling.
Our guest host this week is our good friend Julio Ojeda-Zapata. Besides enjoying his guest-hosting on the podcast, we were particularly interested in an article he wrote on 
Known as an Innovator, Leader, and Disruptor, 
Researchers have found that code written by women—submitted to the software repository 
Dinosaurs being resurrected by pulling DNA from a mosquito 
TIP: SECURE YOUR BABY MONITOR! Just-plug-‘em-in baby monitors are one super-simple way that hackers can watch your baby—or eavesdrop on you in your home—with video and audio. Most people just buy them (and webcams too) and plugin them in. No password…or a weak one.