S2 Ep20: Why don’t they send ransomware on floppies anymore? – Naked Security Podcast

Our podcasts are conceived, planned, recorded and edited specifically to be listened to. That’s because a lot of our readers like variety in how they consume content, for example to listen to on their way to work. So we create our podcasts and videos in addition to, not instead of, our written articles, which make up the vast majority of our content.

Spoken English is a very different language to written English, and transcripts of podcasts make very poor written articles, in the same way that reading technical English articles aloud generally results in a very dull podcast. If you don’t have time to listen to podcasts, don’t bother trying to ‘read’ them at high speed instead… your best bet is simply to click the links in the shownotes, which take you directly to our made-for-reading articles. We rarely cover topics in the podcast that we haven’t already researched and written up.

(If I were deaf, I don’t think I’d bother reading a transcribed podcast if I could already get the same content in a designed-for-reading form. If I wanted to experience the content with a podcast flavour, I’d think I’d want to watch a translation into my own everyday spoken language, e.g. BSL or ASL, rather than just reading the original Spoken English words written down. FWIW, videos are a bit different, because they show you the body language even if you can’t hear the words, and almost all our videos either have subtitles embedded or are uploaded to our YouTube channel where you can turn closed captions on or off as you wish.)