The Cyber Show

The Cyber Show

Helen and Andy are on a deeply critical quest to understand our technological society. The show is punk - sassy, sceptical, creative, humane and irreverent, but also prescient with remarkable insights on serious subjects.

Author

The Cyber Show

Category

Technology

Podcast website

cybershow.uk

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Cybercrime Roundup 10.05.2024

Topical discussion of cybercrime events May 2024

AI in Music 10.05.2024

Andy talks to Robert Thomas about creativity, AI, generative and reactive music. How will music evolve as an art form?

It's not closed. It's not a circuit. It's not even television. 29.04.2024

A critique of pervasive over-bearing CCTV surveillance

A day out with ISSG 26.04.2024

A trip to the telephone factory with British Computer Society and British Telecom for a cybersecurity conference

Chindogu: Every joke has a serious side 22.04.2024

Chindogu, the Japanese art of the 'useless tool' can tell us a lot about our relation to technology.

An unfortunate miscalculation of capital. 17.04.2024

"AI" technology is fundamentally undermining education. For all it's material splendour capitalism seems to be eating itself very rapidly now.

Code Exploits 12.04.2024

Slave-like conditions of exploitation are moving from the factories of far-eastern hardware manufacure to western software houses.

Poison Code 06.04.2024

Lone developers and small software companies are vulnerable to hostile actors trying to take-over to use their code as a malware platform

Principles not products 04.04.2024

For complex reasons commercial products cannot secure the digital domain. The role of education, culture and government are the more important.

Space Weather on the way 23.03.2024

Are elecromagnetic storms a threat to data integrity? Any simple steps to be cautious?

Rethinking AI images on The Cybershow 22.03.2024

Why we decided to stop using "AI" for episode cover images

Disappearing Worlds 15.03.2024

Musings on disappearing norms and objects displaced by changing technology

About The Cyber Show 03.03.2024

Background about the show, values, origins, mission, personnel.

Reflective practice in cybersecurity 03.03.2024

Cybersecurity could benefit from reflective practice, a tool used in medical, military and other service disciplines

Scamicry: Deliberately putting customers at risk 23.02.2024

Companies confuse customers and put them at risk by behaving like scammers

Security is love 23.02.2024

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Words Betray Us 23.02.2024

enshitification is a word that hides a simpler truth

Security Scarecrows: Why cybersecurity without pentesting is like piloting without a plane. 20.02.2024

For many security personnel the distance between what they know they should do and what they're allowed to do is immensely frustrating.

Inscrutable Systems Part 2 18.02.2024

Commentary on the UK Horizon post office scandal

Human-AI Hybrid Jobs 14.02.2024

It's unlikely huans will "work with AI". Automation fundamentally alters labour relations.

Better Cybersecurity Education 11.02.2024

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Inscrutable Systems Part 1 07.02.2024

Commentary on the UK Horizon post office scandal

The Inscrutable Systems of the British Post Office 07.02.2024

Announcement of two part episode on the Horizon scandal

Calculating a cybersecurity budget 05.02.2024

Spending and making plans for sustainable computer security is hard. Here's some of the factors to consider.

Fake Women in Tech 29.01.2024

Ed and Helen speak to Mercy Ageitu, about "fake women in tech"

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