Navigating Data Security and Antitrust in Tech

We chat with friend of the pod and special guest Alex Gaynor, former deputy chief technologist at the FTC and all around good Security Person™. Join for nerdery about WebAuthn, stay for accidentally melting down GitHub APIs around November 2020! 

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBoGvyvsSi4

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/16/alex-gaynor

Links:

- https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw
- https://alexgaynor.net/2025/jan/13/challenges-funding-open-source/
- https://alexgaynor.net/2025/apr/08/putting-a-price-tag-on-open-source/
- https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/corporate-support-xz/
- https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html
- https://github.com/alex/nyt-2020-election-scraper

"Security Cryptography Whatever" is hosted by Deirdre Connolly (@durumcrustulum), Thomas Ptacek (@tqbf), and David Adrian (@davidcadrian)