- 46
- Episodes
- 38
- Transcribed
- 18
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Plaintext with Rich
Cybersecurity is an everyone problem. So why does it always sound like it’s only for IT people? Each week, Rich takes one topic, from phishing to ransomware to how your phone actually tracks you, and explains it in plain language in under ten minutes or less. No buzzwords. No condescension. Just the stuff you need to know to stay safer online, explained like you’re a smart person who never had anyone break it down properly. Because you are!
- Publisher
- Rich Greene
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Dec 2025
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
38 of 46 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026
Browser Extensions: What Did You Give Permission To?
2 Oct 2026
ClickFix: When a CAPTCHA Asks You to Run a Command
25 Sept 2026
Last Seen - When the Phones Woke Up (Episode 4)
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Last Seen - The Rumor (Episode 2)
Published 11 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] A woman leaned out her window and said the water wasn't safe to drink. Somebody even further back shouted that the airport had been evacuated. But none of it was true. But rumor had one advantage over the official updates. Rumor was specific. I turned on the radio. An engineer from the phone company explained that two major fiber lines had been damaged during overnight construction. A backup route had taken some of the traffic, then overloaded. Mobile towers were still standing. There were simply too many phones trying to reach too few working connections. There was no explosion, no invisible enemy, just a couple of buried cables and a backup that wasn't big enough and millions of people pressing refresh. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 14 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
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