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The Podcast

The Lockdown

Welcome to The Lockdown, the practical privacy podcast that equips you with the practical knowledge and tools to protect your privacy and security in the real-world and online. Hosted by Ray Heffer, an expert in the field of privacy and cybersecurity, each episode covers a range of topics such as data privacy, password management, and secure browsing habits for the everyday person. Tin-foil hats are optional.

38 episodes · Hosted by Ray Heffer

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Season Two 2 episodes
  1. S02E02 You Are The Proxy - Hackers, Experts, and Bad Advice
  2. S02E01 How To Think Like A CISO
Season One 36 episodes
  1. S01E34 Final Episode
  2. S01E33 Black Mirror - Is the UK's Surveillance State Coming to America?
  3. S01E32 No Salt Required - Listener Questions Before the Break
  4. S01E31 When Privacy Tools Betray You - Safety Apps That Dox and Revoked Anonymous Payments
  5. S01E30 Info Stealers, GrapheneOS Drama, and Why Video Games and Anti-Virus Are Spyware
  6. S01E29 Minimize not Militarize and Avoiding Surveillance with GrapheneOS
  7. S01E28 Silence & Stealth - Mailbox, Email & Anti-KYC Phone Strategies
  8. S01E27 Stop Playing the Game, Join The New Matrix Privacy Community
  9. S01E26 Ghost in the Source (Announcement)
  10. S01E25 AI Privacy Concerns with ChatGPT and Claude
  11. S01E24 Minimize What Can Be Known with the OSINT Defense & Security Framework (ODSF)
  12. S01E23 Apple Removes ADP in the UK, the Privacy Implications and Listener Q&A
  13. S01E22 Deep Dive into Session Private Messenger with Co-Founder Kee Jefferys
  14. S01E21 Digital Minimalism and Why Your Messages Aren't Really Private
  15. S01E20 The State of Privacy in 2025
  16. S01E19 A Conversation with Luke Mulks from Brave Software
  17. S01E18 Back to the Basics and not Overthinking Privacy
  18. S01E17 Privacy During a Natural Disaster, Self-Hosting Nextcloud, Backblaze B2 & Restic, and Farewell Firefox
  19. S01E16 Privacy Discussion with Tyler from EasyOptOuts
  20. S01E15 NPD202401 (National Public Data Breach) and Windows 11
  21. S01E14 Social Media, OPSEC for OSINT, and AI Security
  22. S01E13 iCloud Private Relay, Complete pfSense Guide, and Privacy for Kids
  23. S01E12 Back to the Basics, Back to the iPhone, Authy API Abuse
  24. S01E11 Living Like a Recluse, Living Trusts, GrapheneOS, and Listener Questions
  25. S01E10 Alternatives to Authy, SANS OSINT Summit, and Selling your Soul to CLEAR
  26. S01E09 Data Broker Sites and a Conversation with Lawrence Gentilello from Optery
  27. S01E08 Anonymity with TOR, Data Removals, and Mozilla Monitor
  28. FFN IMPOSTER SYNDROME
  29. S01E07 Defensive OSINT, Privacy on the Road, More Aliases, and Face Morphing
  30. S01E06 When you Lose your Phone, Nextcloud, and Backups with Restic and Backblaze B2
  31. S01E05 Brave vs Firefox, and When Privacy Goes Wrong
  32. FFN ZERO TRUST
  33. S01E04 The Psychology of Social Engineering
  34. S01E03 The Invisible Net, and Why I use GrapheneOS
  35. S01E02 The Lastpass Breach and Recommended Password Managers
  36. S01E01 Stalkerware and the Data Collector