It’s nearly impossible to live in San Francisco and not start a podcast. My first audio storytelling work can be found in a one-season, personal project called Death Knell. It is something I still hold dear.
Please find it here: www.deathknellradio.com.
My more recent experience is in the Lock and Code podcast for Malwarebytes. I am Lock and Code’s creator, host, interviewer, guest scheduler, and script-writer. The show’s audio is edited by Eric Johnson of Lightning Pod. It can be found on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and your preferred podcast app.
Our best stories try to answer a simple question in cybersecurity: Why are things as bad as they are?
Here is a selection of several episodes.
Lock and Code
- January 28, 2024: Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying
“If the internet helped create the era of mass surveillance, then artificial intelligence will bring about an era of mass spying.
That’s the latest prediction from noted cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier, who, in December, shared a vision of the near future where artificial intelligence—AI—will be able to comb through reams of surveillance data to answer the types of questions that, previously, only humans could.”
- March 12, 2023: “Brad Pitt,” a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes
“Becky Holmes knows how to throw a romance scammer off script—simply bring up cannibalism… ‘I was hoping that you’d let me eat a small part of you when we meet,’ Holmes said. ‘No major organs or anything obviously. I’m not weird lol.’”
- July 18, 2022: Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data
“On June 24, that Constitutional right to choose to have an abortion was removed by the Supreme Court, and immediately, this legal story became one of data privacy. Today, countless individuals ask themselves: What surrounding activity is allowed?”
- August 29, 2021: Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere
“No one ever wants a group of hackers to say about their company: ‘We had the keys to the kingdom.’
But that’s exactly what the hacker Sick Codes said on this week’s episode of Lock and Code, when talking about his and fellow hackers’ efforts to peer into John Deere’s data operations center, where the company receives a near-endless stream of data from its Internet-connected tractors, combines, and other smart farming equipment.”
“On April 1, a volunteer researcher for the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) began poking around into Kaseya VSA, a popular software tool used to remotely manage and monitor computers. Within minutes, he found a zero-day vulnerability that allowed remote code execution—a serious flaw. Within weeks, his team had found seven or eight more.”