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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, 11 months ago

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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 …

2 years ago

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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…

2 years ago

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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…

2 years ago

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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…

2 years ago

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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…

2 years ago

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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…

2 years, 1 month ago

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A Massive Google Leak

We start this week with a massive leak from inside Google. We obtained a copy of an internal Google database the company uses to track potential priv…

2 years, 1 month ago

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Google Somehow Got Even More Shit

Episode 40

We revisit our Why Google Is Shit Now episode with something of an update: Google got worse! Of course we're talking about the embarrassing rollout o…

2 years, 1 month ago

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Your Phone's Location is Exposed

Episode 38

Really excited about this one. We spend the entire episode talking about SS7, the fundamental network and protocol which is both at the heart of the …

2 years, 1 month ago

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