Secret Networks

It certainly seemed that the team from Failure - the Podcast went into Covid-induced hibernation these past few months. We might say that we spent them on a promotional tour to shore up flagging subscriptions in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, with Joe Rogan putting the last few bricks into his “blue wall” of podcast fame in those hotly-contested markets — a wall, we will note, is rumored to have been funded by the Mexican government — we’d have to walk back that claim.

We might also say that we had learned, at the start the hiatus, of the seriousness of the affliction known as “listener apathy,” and that we were holding back for fear of scaring (yes, you’re right, scarring might have been the better choice of verbs) the few subscribers we had left. After all, what’s a little dishonesty when it’s only the health of our fellow citizens at stake? If it works when you’re running for office, why not when you’re running a podcast.

Sure, we might say all these things, and more. But let’s start afresh. No lies. No pressers. No fake news. No Fox News. No walk-backs. As Bob Barker might have said, let’s go with Door #1: the truth.

OK, here goes: the Team was busy. It happens. We’d apologize, but the revenues from Failure - the Podcast speak for themselves.

So enough with the idle chatter. (Really, you say? Isn’t that this podcast’s raison d'etre?) Today’s episode is about secret societies ... oops, sorry, that was last week’s news … we mean virtual private networks. They are the gold standard of secure Internet communications, or so we thought. Have a listen or a gander (or both) to today’s episode and see what you think. Perhaps you’ll pick up a thing or two from our guests Dan Edlebeck and Humam Malas of Exidio, a Boston-based startup that’s looking to make your jaunts on the web a little more secure.