• 55 minutes 50 seconds
    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 thought she knew everyone in her tiny Wyoming town—so who's been terrorizing her family?
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    28 July 2026, 7:00 am
  • 46 minutes 57 seconds
    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 reporting, but even the most trusted voice on TikTok has some thoughts when it comes to our collective privacy.

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    21 July 2026, 7:00 am
  • 48 minutes 41 seconds
    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-billion dollar transnational organized crime network. Learn about the "money blessing," the coded language and insider access, and the elite thug playbook for exploiting trust.
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    14 July 2026, 7:00 am
  • 52 minutes 35 seconds
    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 publicly viewable data. Social media posts, podcasts, leaked passwords, a cat-tree video. Listen to hear how we did.
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    7 July 2026, 7:00 am
  • 45 minutes 56 seconds
    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 whatever made that possible. We talk about that and Anthropic's Mythos, which is a cyber idyll for our time.
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    30 June 2026, 7:00 am
  • 44 minutes 59 seconds
    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 of badly targeted marketing. Godin's anti-spam playbook: demand companies earn your attention with awesomeness, and break the digital slop loop that broke the Internet.


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    23 June 2026, 7:00 am
  • 43 minutes 4 seconds
    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 never met for years. What do you do when hundreds of crime rings are using your face?


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    16 June 2026, 7:00 am
  • 45 minutes 4 seconds
    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 times his 85-year-old father got scammed — and why the most unsettling thing wasn't the con. It was how reasonable it all sounded.
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    9 June 2026, 7:00 am
  • 51 minutes 2 seconds
    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 is his name, age, address, and phone number sitting on a website right now available to anyone who knows his name?
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    2 June 2026, 7:00 am
  • 46 minutes 46 seconds
    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 lonelyhearts out of money, Ethan Merritt did what we all fantasize about from time to time: he scammed the scammer.
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    26 May 2026, 7:00 am
  • 47 minutes 2 seconds
    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 found a workaround — and the IRS, the Pentagon, and ICE all bought in.


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    19 May 2026, 7:00 am
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