Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSignal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
This is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the S…
1 year, 9 months ago
Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion
We've got a bumper episode today. First off, a whole series of stories about robots.txt and its increased use against AI, as well as Reddit only bein…
1 year, 9 months ago
The CrowdStrike Outage
Episode 49
Some weeks are just crazy. On Friday, Windows machines around the world went down due to a faulty update to CrowdStrike's security software. We discu…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Worst Telecom Breach Ever
Sometimes a hack just completely blows you away. Late last week we learned that hackers had taken the call and text records of "nearly all" AT&T cust…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Ticketmaster Hack
Episode 46
So, the Ticketmaster hack got a lot, lot worse. Jason breaks down why in the first half of the show. After the break, we talk more Ticketmaster, and …
1 year, 10 months ago
Your Identity Hacked, Yet Verified
Episode 45
We start this episode talking about some exciting updates for the podcast! For the first story, Joseph explains how an ID verification service for Ti…
1 year, 10 months ago
Replacing 404 Media with AI
Here's a fun one: Emanuel made his own ChatGPT-powered news site that ripped off our work and that of WIRED, The Verge, and others to show just how e…
1 year, 10 months ago
AI Celebs Take Over Google Image Search
Joseph is out this week, so the leftover crew considers what it means for Google image search to be taken over by AI images, talks about #finance, an…
1 year, 10 months ago
Hacking the Adderall Shortage
Episode 42
It feels way longer than a week since our last episode, weird. Anyway this week we start with a wild story with Emanuel, about how people in the US a…
1 year, 11 months ago
DARK WIRE on Whale Hunting
Episode 42
A something extra for our listeners this week. Joseph went on an episode of Whale Hunting to talk about his new book DARK WIRE, in which the FBI secr…
1 year, 11 months ago