Podcast Episodes

Cory Doctorow Makes Us Wonder if Everything’s a Scam

Episode 198

Think you’re too savvy to get scammed? Author and activist Cory Doctorow explains how we’re all one muffaletta and a malfunctioning jet door away from falling prey to the most basic of cons. He joins…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

FBI Operative Eric O’Neill: Cybercriminals Are Spies—Not Hackers

Episode 197

What if the biggest threat to your privacy wasn’t some hacker in a hoodie—but a spy trained to infiltrate your life? Former FBI operative Eric O’Neill, the man who took down spy Robert Hanssen, expla…

Published on 5 months ago

Max Lebow Battles a Cyber PsyOps Nightmare

Episode 196

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Can AI Commit the Perfect Crime?

Episode 195

AI is everywhere – in the news, on our devices, assisting us, making life easier for us, and for criminals, too, harnessing AI to swindle people more efficiently. What’s next? We dive into the dark s…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Karen Johnson’s Scam Project Is a Teachable Moment for AI

Episode 194

Karen Johnson is a catfisher-turned-scam avoidance coach turned–you guessed it–catfishing victim. The scam that got her is a classic, opening the door to a Pandora’s Box of the usual advice about avo…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Roy Wood, Jr. Exposes the Loch Ness Monster Gun Lobby Conspiracy

Episode 193

As a Daily Show correspondent, comedian Roy Wood, Jr. knows a thing or two about fake news and truthiness as well as the truth-and-a-half that is comedy. By skewering the media and the people in the …

Published on 6 months ago

Max McCoy Investigates $47 Million That Isn’t in Kansas Anymore

Episode 192

Max McCoy stumbled on a $47 million swindle that starts just north of the Oklahoma panhandle and bounces to Australia before things get really confusing in a haze of small town corruption, secretive …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Erin West Puts the Bad Guys to Shame

Episode 191

Erin West is the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, California, and the founder of Project Shamrock. Whether she’s prosecuting eye-popping SIM-swap money grabs or putting large-scale pig…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Dick Gephardt Wants a Safer Internet

Former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt is on a mission to kill Section 230, the legal shield that lets social media giants profit from chaos. If engagement-driven algorithms are fueling harmful…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Kara Swisher Calls Out the Man Babies of Big Tech

Episode 189

Kara Swisher has been covering Silicon Valley since the early days, and she’s made a ton of enemies the old fashioned way (by telling the truth about the new robber barons of our digital lives). In a…

Published on 7 months ago