(we are) NSFW Reaction to tech dependence and CrowdStrike issues

About this episode

Renee and Nadja discuss society's dependence on technology, personal experiences with voting, and recent issues related to CrowdStrike.

Renee and Nadja talk about society's dependence on technology, summer camp for boys with Hemophilia, and the recent CrowdStrike issues.   00:00 - Intro 02:45 - Nadja's first time experience voting as a US Citizen US Citizenship Civics Test Questions: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/100q.pdf 10:55 - US Voting dates (early voting and election day) 12:12 - Reaction to losing your phone 13:05 - Shameless plug for Camp Ailihpomeh! https://camp-ailihpomeh.org (Camp for kids with Hemophilia) 28:45 - How Nadja lost her phone in a lake at camp 37:52 - Society's hyper-connectivity situation 43:10 - CrowdStrike outage chat 49:41 - How dependent we are on systems working and when they don't work Renee suggests a book called, "Nuclear War: A Scenario" by Annie Jacobsen https://amzn.to/4d8YzIY 55:40 - Discussion about the TV Show Mr. Robot 01:03:19 - Renee calls out Nadja's connection to the Feds Nadja suggests books "Dawn of the Code Wars" by John P. Carlin https://amzn.to/4fEsHh8 and "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir https://amzn.to/3WrKcbD 01:11:26 - Continue the cybersecurity conversation in the future Send us an email for topic requests…

People in this episode

Hosts: Renee, Nadja

Topics covered

• technology dependence
• voting experience
• cybersecurity
• CrowdStrike issues
• summer camp for boys
• hyper-connectivity

Keywords

• technology
• CrowdStrike
• voting
• cybersecurity
• summer camp
• hyper-connectivity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Camp Ailihpomeh, CrowdStrike, US Citizenship Civics Test, Mr. Robot

Books & works: Nuclear War: A Scenario, Dawn of the Code Wars, Project Hail Mary

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