Roblox scams, fake Robux offers, phishing links, and safer online gaming guidance for families.
Oct 12
15 min
Meta’s Muse promises to act across a user’s connected digital life, but Tom Eston and Scott Wright explain why delegated authority, a reported token-theft flaw, hidden human involvement, and Meta’s privacy history make personal AI agents a security decision—not just a convenience feature.
Oct 5
18 min
A familiar voice is no longer proof of identity: Tom Eston and Scott Wright explain how AI voice-cloning scams use urgency and emotion, and why trusted callbacks, private family code phrases, and independent approval steps are the defenses that actually work.
Sep 28
14 min
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
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