Andy Linton

Andy Linton on Bitcoin. How over rated is it? Is Bitcoin a case of the Emperor's New Clothes and is the hype surrounding its value off the scale? Audio

Andy Linton discusses the internet of things and why hackers have home routers in their sights. Audio

Andy Linton looks at the latest advancement in hearing aids: a digital filter which amplifies sound, isolates speech from background noise and adjusts the volumes of each separately. Plus training a… Audio

Andy Linton discusses the impact of technology on jobs and the prospect of a universal basic income - and driverless cars. Audio

Andy Linton on the folly of having backed-up data but no emergency plan to access it in light of Statistics New Zealand struggle to obtain vital data after its building was damaged in the Kaikoura… Audio

Andy Linton with more on Fake News - it it fixable? Audio

Andy Linton on the shutting down of investigative journalist Brian Krebs website by probably the biggest DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack in history following coverage of cyber criminals… Audio

Andy Linton on changes to the oversight of the internet domain name system - and he'll be getting on his e-bike. Audio

Andy Linton on how much of your private information the Government is collecting from organisations - and how little is known about how often it happens. Audio

Andy Linton talks about a free website he's been involved with that helps people learn music, more on the future of passwords or whether our devices will just recognise our faces and movements and the… Audio

The status of engineers and the ethics of data collection Audio

Andy Linton talks about the internet of things - how technology products "talk" to each other. Corporations aim to use this to make money from us - but what do we get in return? Audio

Andy Linton discusses passwords; what a really good one is like and the tools that help you remember them Audio

Andy Linton discusses software tools to help people learn music by ear. Audio

Electric bikes and how recent technology makes them viable. Audio

The Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Social Development are investigating a privacy breach after a Work and Income customer managed to access someone elses information. Audio

The carbon footprint of the internet. Audio

On-line voting and our increasing reliance on "big data". Andy Linton has more than 30 years' experience in computer networking in the telecommunications industry and the academic sector. He currently… Audio

Andy Linton has more than 30 years' experience in computer networking in the telecommunications industry and the academic sector. He currently spends his time teaching and helping build networks in… Audio