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What the Hack?

“What the Hack?” is the award-winning true cybercrime podcast–the place to hear memorable stories and get good advice.

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Episode 252: Surveillance In America, Pt 4: No Warrant Required May 19, 2026

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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 bought in.

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Episode 251: Surveillance In America, Pt 3: Just Say No May 12, 2026

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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, GainSec, and the ACLU's Nate Freed Wessler.

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Episode 250: Becky Holmes and the Future of Fraud May 05, 2026

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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 for our post-breach reality: Is Trust dead?

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Episode 249: The End of the Constitution Had to Start Somewhere Apr 27, 2026

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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 most important privacy vote in a generation—and what you can do about it.

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Episode 248: Open Source Intelligence and the Death of Obscurity Apr 21, 2026

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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 claw back a little privacy before it's gone for good.

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Episode 247: Ghost Murmur and the Real Assault on Privacy Apr 14, 2026

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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 from the real threats we all face right now.

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Episode 246: Trafficked: Part Three, Asian Scam Compounds Apr 07, 2026

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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 picture.

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Episode 245: A Professional Noticer of Things Mar 31, 2026

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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 is the privacy lesson you need to hear.

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Episode 244: Inside Tracy Chou's Block Party for Social Media Mar 24, 2026

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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 from the people who want to harm you.

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Episode 243: Criminal Mind vs. Criminal Mind Mar 17, 2026

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Jim Clemente built a career reading criminals. FBI special agent, behavioral profiler, Unabomber case, the hit series Criminal Minds. Then someone bought his debit card number on the dark web, linked it to a peer-to-peer finance app, and cleaned him out.

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