The Shawn Ryan Show

I can finally talk about this...

Only if you're curious about Glacier itself — this is one extended pitch for Ryan's own app, though the CIA spy-game war stories framing it are genuinely colorful.

1. 01Shawn Ryan traces Glacier to the clunky black phones his CIA team carried while hunting ISIS and the Taliban in the Middle East.
2. 02Ryan partnered with the makers of a $10,000 black phone — former NSA and intelligence developers, by his description — to rebuild it as an app called Glacier.
3. 03The lead feature in Glacier is burner numbers in any US area code, handed out to stores or campaigns and killed the moment one is sold or abused.
4. 04Ryan's own secure DNS had blocked more than 1,300 web trackers by 4 p.m. on the day he recorded the episode.