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Episode 203: Jack Rhysider Exposes Our Digital Secrets Jun 10, 2025

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What if your digital footprint made you a target? Jack Rhysider, host of "Darknet Diaries," shares how a fan turned his online presence into a personal puzzle—revealing just how easily your privacy can be pieced together and exploited.

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Episode 202: Shannon Edwards Reveals the Student Data Free-for-All May 27, 2025

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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 educational apps harvest sensitive information from children, commodify their data, and what parents can do to fight it.

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Episode 201: Keren Elazari Decrypts the Ransomeware Nightmare May 20, 2025

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Ransomware is a type of malware that allows hackers to commandeer data on a device or an entire network. Increasingly, the threat actors behind these crimes set their sites on mission critical targets. We talked about it with renowned cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari this week.

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Episode 200: The Wild West of the Loophole Economy May 13, 2025

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We’ve all been there. You see something perfect online, you do all the clicks and then think, “Wait, was that legit?” Scam-lite transactions are the way of the web these days, whether it’s direct-from-manufacturer or super-sticky subscriptions, we have your back.

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Episode 199: CISA Director Jen Easterly Stands Watch in the Cyberwars May 06, 2025

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From elections to ransomware, CISA Director Jen Easterly breaks down the threats to America’s critical infrastructure and what’s being done to stop them, sharing along the way her journey from the real-life battlefield to the frontlines of cybersecurity. This is a rare glimpse into the most pressing threats America faces—and a compelling story about Director Easterly’s own experience being targeted..

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Episode 198: Cory Doctorow Makes Us Wonder if Everything’s a Scam Apr 29, 2025

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Think you’re too savvy to get scammed? Author and activist Cory Doctorow explains how we’re all one muffaletta and a malfunctioning jet door away from falling prey to the most basic of cons. He joins us this week to talk about that and to fill us in about his new book, “The Bezzle.”

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Episode 197: FBI Operative Eric O’Neill: Cybercriminals Are Spies—Not Hackers Apr 22, 2025

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What if the biggest threat to your privacy wasn’t some hacker in a hoodie—but a spy trained to infiltrate your life? Former FBI operative Eric O’Neill, the man who took down spy Robert Hanssen, explains how digital spies target us, offering along the way real-world tips to protect ourselves in a world where everyone’s a potential target.

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Episode 196: Max Lebow Battles a Cyber PsyOps Nightmare Apr 15, 2025

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Episode 195: Can AI Commit the Perfect Crime? Apr 08, 2025

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AI is everywhere – in the news, on our devices, assisting us, making life easier for us, and for criminals, too, harnessing AI to swindle people more efficiently. What’s next? We dive into the dark side of AI and ask two experts: Could AI commit the perfect crime?

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Episode 194: Karen Johnson’s Scam Project Is a Teachable Moment for AI Apr 01, 2025

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Karen Johnson is a catfisher-turned-scam avoidance coach turned–you guessed it–catfishing victim. The scam that got her is a classic, opening the door to a Pandora’s Box of the usual advice about avoiding the most common scams out there. But the thing that really got us thinking is the role AI played in almost every aspect of this week’s show.

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