Bob Sullivan’s podcasts

A collection of Bob Sullivan’s various podcasts.

Bob Sullivan's podcast projects

Debugger podcast: Should the FTC stop Facebook from acquiring VR firm? And make it ‘give back’ Instagram and WhatsApp?

September 5, 2022 Bob Sullivan 4

There’s a new front that’s opened in the years-long battle between the FTC and Facebook. Federal regulators have sued to stop the social media giant’s proposed acquisition of a company named Within which makes a popular virtual reality fitness app called Supernatural. In this episode of Debugger in 10, we [Keep reading]

Bob Sullivan's podcast projects

Social media companies ‘have revealed themselves to be soulless’ … but there’s #SoulfulWork in cybersecurity

June 27, 2022 Bob Sullivan 0

Bryan Palma, CEO of cybersecurity company Trellix, spoke recently at the biggest cybersecurity conference in the world, the RSA conference, and issued quite the call to action. Social media companies are soulless, he said. Tech workers who want to find more meaning in their work…well, there’s plenty of work to [Keep reading]

Bob Sullivan's podcasts

Episode 1: Too Big to Sue

April 22, 2022 Bob Sullivan 2

 INTRODUCTION  The dot-com bubble. It’s hard to put into words how crazy, outlandish, extravagant, and optimistic the dot com bubble was. When I landed in the middle of it as a Microsoft intern in the mid-90s, the first company party I went to — Microsoft rented out a mountain. [Keep reading]

Cybercrime / Privacy

Episode 2: What *hasn’t* worked

April 22, 2022 Bob Sullivan 0

Even Big Tech companies understand they wield too much power. Facebook’s attempt to create an Oversight Board is a nod to this reality.  In practice, it also demonstrates why this problem is so challenging. And how an effort to bring sense to the 2020 presidential election ended up as a [Keep reading]