Episode 12: Zoom Security - The CoronaCorps - Quarantine@Home

04/22/20 • 27 min

Leilani Albano is back and interviews journalist for The Intercept Micah Lee about Zoom security flaws.
Dr. Peretz Partensky is here talking about his piece for Wired, "To Beat the Coronavirus, Raise an Army of the Recovered" where he coins the CoronaCorps, "civilian army that may be able to fill in gaps in public services, insulate the vulnerable from infection, help map the spread of the virus, and give our medical system room to breathe."
In the last part of the show, Dr. Cosmo Mielke is here to talk about his efforts with Quarantine@Home a project that lets you donate your spare compute power to find drugs that target SARS-CoV-2.

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Episode 11: Contact Tracing - Mirakind - Invest in Innovation

Dr. Peter Eckersley is back. He’s an AI, ethics, and privacy researcher, who is the convener of the stop-covid.tech group to talk to us about contact tracing and how important it is in slowing down the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Loretta Whitesides, about her citizen volunteer work with Mirakind who are working to test essential workers in Los Angeles for COVID-19.
In the last part of the show, Brittney is joined by Dr. Addison Killean Stark to talk about his op-ed for Scientific American where he makes the case for investing in innovation to help with pandemic recovery.

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Episode 13: Rideshare Drivers United - Phishing in the Time of COVID-19 - Space

Ric Allen interviews Tyler Sandness of Rideshare Drivers United about their work and how COVID-19 has affected Rideshare drivers.
Nothing is Secure's Roy Natian is here to talk about phishing scams in age of COVID-19, how to recognize them and how to avoid them.
Dr. Casey Handmer is here to talk about how isolation may help prepare us for longterm space travel.