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Shared Security Podcast

Tom Eston, Scott Wright, Kevin Tackett

Shared Security is the the longest-running cybersecurity and privacy podcast where industry veterans Tom Eston, Scott Wright, and Kevin Tackett break down the week’s security WTF moments, privacy fails, human mistakes, and “why is this still a problem?” stories — with humor, honesty, and hard-earned real-world experience. Whether you’re a security pro, a privacy advocate, or just here to hear Kevin yell about vendor nonsense, this podcast delivers insights you’ll actually use — and laughs you probably need. Real security talk from people who’ve lived it.

Could a Pattern on Your Clothing Fool Facial Recognition? Interview with Bill Swearingen

Bill Swearingen explains adversarial clothing research, camera-vision confidence, and the privacy limits of biometric surveillance.

Aug 31

27 min

What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?

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 Exposed: Traffic Tickets, ALPRs, and Vehicle Surveillance

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

GrapheneOS Phone Wipe Case: When Privacy Tools Become Evidence

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 Says Its AI Hacked Another Company on Its Own

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

Your Monitor Can Install Adware Now?

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: When Your Data Sets the Price

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

Signal Phishing and Russian Intelligence Targeting Messaging Apps

Russian intelligence services are targeting Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram users through phishing, linked-device abuse, and backup recovery key theft — not by breaking encryption.

Jul 13

15 min

The Supreme Court Just Put Limits on Geofence Warrants

Tom Eston and Scott Wright break down the Supreme Court’s geofence warrant/location privacy ruling and explain why everyday phone users should review how apps, platforms, and data brokers collect and store location data.

Jul 6

14 min

Jay Beale on Kubernetes, DEF CON, and AI Attack Paths

Jay Beale joins Tom and Kevin for a funny, story-heavy conversation about physical pen tests, Kubernetes attack-and-defense training, DEF CON's Kubernetes CTF, and why AI systems running on Kubernetes create very real new attack paths.

Jun 29

38 min