Episode 267: No Price Tag for You!
Fictitious discounts. payday markups. AI setting airfares in real time. Investigative reporter Derek Kravitz, Grace Gedye (Consumer Reports)...
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What the Hack with Adam Levin
"What the Hack with Adam Levin" is true cybercrime with dad jokes. It’s a no-shame zone for anyone who’s ever been scammed, hacked, phished or cyber-bushwhacked. Every week, we feature fasci...
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20 of 269 episodesEpisode 266: How Much Is Surveillance Pricing Costing You?
Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris "the Producer" Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies w...
Episode 265: Surveillance In America, Pt 1: Somebody's Watching You
Benn Jordan—musician, acoustic scientist, and one of the sharpest minds on surveillance technology—joins 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the A...
Episode 264: 15 Years of Fear: A Stalking Story
A stranger showed up at Anna Nasset's art gallery with a painting called "Marry Me." She said no. He did not get the message — for 15 years....
Episode 263: The Affinity Scam Playbook
Coco Berthmann sold a survival story. Amanda Riley sold a cancer battle. Both were lies that raided communities, wallets, and trust. Journal...
Episode 262: The Mystery that Changed Wyoming's Stalking Law
Fake screenshots. Burner numbers. Forged emails. A stalker who somehow always knew what a 15-year-old was wearing. Blogger Cathy Holman thou...
Episode 261: Aaron Parnas on the Firehose of Our Digital Here-and-Now
Aaron Parnas is the Walter Cronkite of Substack. He has millions of followers who follow him on every platform to get his just-the-facts rep...
Episode 260: Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime
Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-bil...
Episode 259: Capture The Flag!
Ethan Merritt is an WTH alum, but the last time he was on the pod he was the target. This time, he asked for it: Find four flags using only...
Episode 258: Fighter Pilot Cadet Turned Hacker, She Keeps Us Safe
A teenager rage-hacks a Tetris leaderboard and becomes a millionaire by 18. Now Tal Kollender breaks into companies for a living—and fixes w...
Episode 257: Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome
Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop...
Episode 256: The Colonel & the Catfish
A retired Army Colonel becomes the unwitting face of thousands of romance scams. Bryan Denny has been breaking the hearts of people he's nev...
Episode 255: How Kindness Works in The Scammer's Playbook
She said her name was Clara Harper from Chase Bank. She argued with a police officer. She needed gift cards. Brian Ward shares the three tim...
Episode 254: Even If You're Not Online, You're Online
Craig doesn't have Facebook. He's not a gamer. He builds things, fixes things, grows things, has an assortment of antique chainsaws. So why...
Episode 253: When the Bait Bites Back
A former military guy goes viral, but not in the way he'd hoped. With fake profiles popping up by the dozen using his photos to scam lonelyh...
Episode 252: Surveillance In America, Pt 4: No Warrant Required
The ACLU's Nate Freed Wessler won Carpenter v. United States and changed how the Fourth Amendment applies to your phone. But data brokers fo...
Episode 251: Surveillance In America, Pt 3: Just Say No
Suveillance-for-profit bros say they can eliminate crime in America, but what about the Fourth Amendment? This week: a 1950s numbers racket...
Episode 250: Becky Holmes and the Future of Fraud
Online fraud isn't just getting smarter, it's getting personal. Becky Holmes, author of "The Future of Fraud," traces con artists from ancie...
Episode 249: The End of the Constitution Had to Start Somewhere
Sen. Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the ACLU’s Kia Hamadanchy and Marcy Wheeler explain why the...
Episode 248: Open Source Intelligence and the Death of Obscurity
Data as duh-duh. It's all is out there—indexed, sold, and weaponized. Open source intelligence turns public records into a hacker's playgrou...