Tom, Scott, and Kevin separate speculative AI-doom predictions from the concrete risks created when fast, opaque systems gain authority without credible limits or accountability.
Sep 21
16 min
A reported cache of more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s-license scans allegedly sold through a dark-web service exposes how routine identity verification turns durable government ID into a high-value, hard-to-remediate breach target.
Sep 14
20 min
Hotel Wi‑Fi is not automatically unsafe, but Microsoft’s CaptiveCrunch reporting shows how a routine captive-portal connection can be manipulated into credential theft or malware delivery.
Sep 7
14 min
Bill Swearingen explains adversarial clothing research, camera-vision confidence, and the privacy limits of biometric surveillance.
Aug 31
27 min
Scott Wright joins Tom and Kevin to walk through the Digital Legacy Tree framework and his upcoming book on digital legacy planning, covering roots (access), trunk (dependencies), and leaves (priorities), platform legacy-contact options, and how to keep accounts secure today while ensuring trusted access when you're gone.
Aug 24
21 min
Flock cameras and automated license plate readers are often sold as tools for finding stolen cars, wanted suspects, missing people, and serious threats. But a 404 Media report about police allegedly using a Flock camera image for a traffic ticket shows how quickly public-safety surveillance can expand into everyday enforcement. In this episode, Tom, Kevin, and Scott discuss ALPR mission creep, traffic enforcement, retention, data sharing, audit logs, vendor swaps, rideshare dashcam surveillance proposals, and device-tracking risks.
Aug 17
25 min
A GrapheneOS phone-wipe prosecution raises concerns that privacy and security tools could be treated as suspicious by default during border/device searches.
Aug 10
16 min
OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode cuts through the hype: was this true autonomous intent, an agent following bad scope boundaries, or a warning about giving AI systems real tools and permissions?
Aug 3
23 min
A new LG monitor triggering an automatic Windows companion app with a McAfee ad is more than an annoying popup. It is a reminder that hardware setup has become a software supply chain, and users often do not get meaningful control over what vendor utilities, ads, telemetry, and startup apps arrive when they connect a device.
Jul 27
24 min
Surveillance pricing turns personal data, shopping history, location signals, loyalty programs, and AI-driven profiling into different prices or discounts for different people — often without consumers realizing their data has become the price tag.
Jul 20
22 min
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