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Episode 273: Profiler Jay Jones Takes on Fake Job Scams
Oct 13, 2026
Congrats, you're the perfect candidate! (You're not. You're the mark.) Jay Jones "The Profiler" has taken down more than 58,000 fake job postings. Learn how scammers turn a job hunt into open season…
Episode 272: You Should Be Unsettled: Meta and Teens
Oct 06, 2026
When she was 12, Ava Smithing's Instagram algorithim led her from bikini ads to eating disorder content. Meta settled for $17 billion recently, but what's actually changed? Not enough. Oh and the new…
Episode 271: Are You Being Watched? (You Are.)
Sep 29, 2026
Worried about AI? Don't trust Flock Security? You might get on a law enforcement list for that. Investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw explains Big Tech's push to re-label anti-surveillance camera…
Episode 270: Your Driver's License Can't Prove Who You Are Anymore
Sep 22, 2026
A driver's license breach didn't just leak data—threat actors now have access to a universal key to every identity verification system that relies on state-issued identification. DeleteMe's Rob…
Episode 269: The Student Data Free-for-All
Sep 15, 2026
As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data miners. This week, privacy advocate Shannon Edwards reveals how…
Episode 268: Your Privacy Is Being Taxed
Sep 08, 2026
Same store, same day, different price. David Dayen takes us on a deep dive into the murky cyberscape of surveillance pricing, we enlist young people to prove it's real, and Grace Gedye lays out a…
Episode 267: No Price Tag for You!
Sep 01, 2026
Fictitious discounts. payday markups. AI setting airfares in real time. Investigative reporter Derek Kravitz, Grace Gedye (Consumer Reports) are joined byDavid Dayen to expose the algorithms that…
Episode 266: How Much Is Surveillance Pricing Costing You?
Aug 25, 2026
Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris "the Producer" Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies would charge the new him less. What he found was stranger…
Episode 265: Surveillance In America, Pt 1: Somebody's Watching You
Aug 18, 2026
Benn Jordan—musician, acoustic scientist, and one of the sharpest minds on surveillance technology—joins 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the ACLU’s Jay Stanley to trace how surveillance went ambient—…
Episode 264: 15 Years of Fear: A Stalking Story
Aug 11, 2026
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. Now Anna trains law enforcement on stalking, because…
Episode 263: The Affinity Scam Playbook
Aug 04, 2026
Coco Berthmann sold a survival story. Amanda Riley sold a cancer battle. Both were lies that raided communities, wallets, and trust. Journalists Sarah Ganim, Karen Given, and Charlie Webster tell the…
Episode 262: The Mystery that Changed Wyoming's Stalking Law
Jul 28, 2026
Fake screenshots. Burner numbers. Forged emails. A stalker who somehow always knew what a 15-year-old was wearing. Blogger Cathy Holman thought she knew everyone in her tiny Wyoming town—so who's…
Episode 261: Aaron Parnas on the Firehose of Our Digital Here-and-Now
Jul 21, 2026
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 reporting, but even the most trusted voice on TikTok has some…
Episode 260: Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime
Jul 14, 2026
Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-billion dollar transnational organized crime network. Learn…
Episode 259: Capture The Flag!
Jul 07, 2026
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 publicly viewable data. Social media posts, podcasts…
Episode 258: Fighter Pilot Cadet Turned Hacker, She Keeps Us Safe
Jun 30, 2026
A teenager rage-hacks a Tetris leaderboard and becomes a millionaire by 18. Now Tal Kollender breaks into companies for a living—and fixes whatever made that possible. We talk about that and…
Episode 257: Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome
Jun 23, 2026
Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop of badly targeted marketing. Godin's anti-spam playbook…
Episode 256: The Colonel & the Catfish
Jun 16, 2026
A retired Army Colonel becomes the unwitting face of thousands of romance scams. Bryan Denny has been breaking the hearts of people he's never met for years. What do you do when hundreds of crime…
Episode 255: How Kindness Works in The Scammer's Playbook
Jun 09, 2026
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 times his 85-year-old father got scammed — and why the most…
Episode 254: Even If You're Not Online, You're Online
Jun 02, 2026
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 is his name, age, address, and phone number sitting on a…
Episode 253: When the Bait Bites Back
May 26, 2026
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 lonelyhearts out of money, Ethan Merritt did what we all fantasize…
Episode 252: Surveillance In America, Pt 4: No Warrant Required
May 19, 2026
The ACLU's Nate Freed Wessler won Carpenter v. United States and changed how the Fourth Amendment applies to your phone. But data brokers found a workaround — and the IRS, the Pentagon, and ICE all…
Episode 251: Surveillance In America, Pt 3: Just Say No
May 12, 2026
Suveillance-for-profit bros say they can eliminate crime in America, but what about the Fourth Amendment? This week: a 1950s numbers racket and some real talk with Jason Koebler, Benn Jordan…
Episode 250: Becky Holmes and the Future of Fraud
May 05, 2026
Online fraud isn't just getting smarter, it's getting personal. Becky Holmes, author of "The Future of Fraud," traces con artists from ancient Rome to AI-powered scam compounds, and asks a question…
Episode 249: The End of the Constitution Had to Start Somewhere
Apr 27, 2026
Sen. Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the ACLU’s Kia Hamadanchy and Marcy Wheeler explain why the deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA may be the…
Episode 248: Open Source Intelligence and the Death of Obscurity
Apr 21, 2026
Data as duh-duh. It's all is out there—indexed, sold, and weaponized. Open source intelligence turns public records into a hacker's playground, your LinkedIn profile is dangerous, but you can still…
Episode 247: Ghost Murmur and the Real Assault on Privacy
Apr 14, 2026
The whisper: A downed U.S. pilot was located by tracking his heartbeat from 40 miles away. Real, or fake news to rattle Iran? Benn Jordan and physicist Chad Orzel help us separate the science fiction…
Episode 246: Trafficked: Part Three, Asian Scam Compounds
Apr 07, 2026
You’ve heard how the compounds work. This week we go inside one—through the eyes of Small Q, an Ugandan musician who was trafficked in and got out—also: Erin West of Operation Shamrock on the bigger…
Episode 245: A Professional Noticer of Things
Mar 31, 2026
Christopher Anderson has spent thirty years in high-stakes situations—war zones, sinking boats, the current White House. What he’s learned about the information people don’t know they’re giving away…
Episode 244: Inside Tracy Chou's Block Party for Social Media
Mar 24, 2026
One of Time Magazine’s Women of the Year and a vocal advocate for diversity in tech, Tracy Chou built Block Party after discovering firsthand that the platforms have no real incentive to protect you…
