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Lock and Code — 171 episodes · page 1 of 2
A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (feat. John DeMay)
A true tale of virtual kidnapping (re-air)
The AI plot to scan and destroy books (feat. Emanuel Maiberg)
Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (feat. Kim Sutherland)
What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese)
How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (feat. Chris Parr)
What's your data worth on the dark web?
Trusting your kids online isn't enough
This pay gap is programmed (feat. Veena Dubal)
Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (feat. David Chiu)
Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman)
AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld)
Cyberattacks are raising your prices (feat. Eva Velasquez)
Big Tech can stop scams. They just don’t (feat. Marti DeLiema)
Killer robots are here. Now what? (feat. Peter Asaro)
This is all it takes to stop a train (feat. Rachel Swan)
Won't you see my neighbor? (feat. Matt Guariglia)
What can't you say on TikTok?
Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen) (re-air)
One privacy change for 2026
Enshittification is ruining everything online (feat. Cory Doctorow)
ALPRs are recording your daily drive (feat. Will Freeman)
Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (feat. Erin West)
Air fryer app caught asking for voice data (re-air)
Your coworker is tired of AI "workslop" (feat. Dr. Kristina Rapuano)
Would you sext ChatGPT? (feat. Deb Donig)
What does Google know about me?
What's there to save about social media? (feat. Rabble)
Can you disappear online? (feat. Peter Dolanjski)
This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (feat. Emily Galvin-Almanza)
How a scam hunter got scammed (feat. Julie-Anne Kearns)
“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (feat. Jason Kelley)
How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air, feat. Joseph Cox)
Is AI "healthy" to use?
Corpse-eating selfies, and other ways to trick scammers (feat. Becky Holmes)
The data on denying social media for kids (feat. Dr. Jean Twenge) (re-air)
What does Facebook know about me?
How Los Angeles banned smartphones in schools (feat. Nick Melvoin)
The AI chatbot cop squad is here (feat. Emanuel Maiberg and Jason Koebler)
Did DOGE "breach" Americans' data? (feat. Sydney Saubestre)
Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen)
What Google Chrome knows about you, with Carey Parker
How ads weirdly know your screen brightness, headphone jack use, and location, with Tim Shott
Surveillance pricing is "evil and sinister," explains Justin Kloczko
A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown
Three privacy rules for 2025
The new rules for AI and encrypted messaging, with Mallory Knodel
Is nowhere safe from AI slop?
A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus
These cars want to know about your sex life (re-air)
An air fryer, a ring, and a vacuum get brought into a home. What they take out is your data
Why your vote can’t be “hacked,” with Cait Conley of CISA
This industry profits from knowing you have cancer, explains Cody Venzke
Exposing the Facebook funeral livestream scam
San Francisco’s fight against deepfake porn, with City Attorney David Chiu
What the arrest of Telegram's CEO means, with Eva Galperin
Move over malware: Why one teen is more worried about AI (re-air)
AI girlfriends want to know all about you. So might ChatGPT
SIEM is not storage, with Jess Dodson
How an AI “artist” stole a woman’s face, with Ali Diamond
Busted for book club? Why cops want to see what you’re reading, with Sarah Lamdan
(Almost) everything you always wanted to know about cybersecurity, but were too afraid to ask, with Tjitske de Vries
800 arrests, 40 tons of drugs, and one backdoor, or what a phone startup gave the FBI, with Joseph Cox
Your vacation, reservations, and online dates, now chosen by AI
"No social media 'til 16," and other fixes for a teen mental health crisis, with Dr. Jean Twenge
Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman
Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air)
Securing your home network is long, tiresome, and entirely worth it, with Carey Parker
Going viral shouldn't lead to bomb threats, with Leigh Honeywell
How to make a fake ID online, with Joseph Cox
If only you had to worry about malware, with Jason Haddix
Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying
A true tale of virtual kidnapping
DNA data deserves better, with Suzanne Bernstein
Meet the entirely legal, iPhone-crashing device: the Flipper Zero
Why a ransomware gang tattled on its victim, with Allan Liska
Defeating Little Brother requires a new outlook on privacy
MGM attack is too late a wake-up call for businesses, says James Fair
AI sneak attacks, location spying, and definitely not malware, or, what one teenager fears online
What does a car need to know about your sex life?
Re-air: What teenagers face growing up online
"An influx of Elons," a hospital visit, and magic men: Becky Holmes shares more romance scams
A new type of "freedom," or, tracking children with AirTags, with Heather Kelly
How Apple fixed what Microsoft hasn't, with Thomas Reed
Spy vs. spy: Exploring the LetMeSpy hack, with maia arson crimew
Of sharks, surveillance, and spied-on emails: This is Section 702, with Matthew Guariglia
Why businesses need a disinformation defense plan, with Lisa Kaplan: Lock and Code S04E13
Trusting AI not to lie: The cost of truth
Identity crisis: How an anti-porn crusade could jam the Internet, featuring Alec Muffett
The rise of "Franken-ransomware," with Allan Liska
Removing the human: When should AI be used in emotional crisis?
How the cops buy a "God view" of your location data, with Bennett Cyphers
Solving the password’s hardest problem with passkeys, featuring Anna Pobletts
"Brad Pitt," a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes
Fighting censorship online, or, encryption’s latest surprise use-case, with Mallory Knodel
What is AI ”good” at (and what the heck is it, actually), with Josh Saxe
A private moment, caught by a Roomba, ended up on Facebook. Eileen Guo explains how
Fighting tech’s gender gap with TracketPacer
Why does technology no longer excite?
Chasing cryptocurrency through cyberspace, with Brian Carter