Podcast Episodes

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 TikTok, Uber, and X exposed driver licenses, in a si…

Published on 1 year 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 easy spinning up one of these AI click farms really…

Published on 1 year 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, and discusses how an already sensationalist NY Times…

Published on 1 year 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 are paying a company, which in turn hires people in…

Published on 1 year 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 secretly ran its own encrypted messaging app to wireta…

Published on 1 year ago

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 privacy and security issues. It's incredibly rare to g…

Published on 1 year ago

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 of Google's AI-powered answers. Jason explains the …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

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 world's telecommunications infrastructure, and cru…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Why the Solar Storm Broke Tractors and GPS

Episode 38

We've got something of a John Deere special episode this week. We start with Jason's piece on how the recent solar storm knocked out GPS for John Deere tractors, having a direct impact on farming acr…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Facebook is the 'Zombie Internet'

Episode 37

Apologies for some audio issues this week, they'll be fixed next time, but for now we have a super packed episode! We start with Jason's months-long deep dive into what Facebook has become with all o…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago