176: NSL
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One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to violate the constitution. So he set out to change the law. Learn more about Nicks work at calyxinstitute.org and phreeli.com . Check out Cindy’s book Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (https://amzn.to/4gXuK2J). Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker® .
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- DefenceZero trustA security model that checks every access request instead of trusting anything inside the network.
- AttackRansomwareMalware that encrypts an organisation's systems and demands payment, often after stealing data to leak.
- ConceptExploitCode or a technique that turns a software flaw into something an attacker can actually use.