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Episode releases
#156#168#180#192#204Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#191Episode released Oct 18: A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (feat. John DeMay)
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DateCombined RankApple Podcasts
Oct 27#191#187
Oct 21#180#175
Oct 20#166#160
Oct 15#194#191
Oct 14—#199

Latest episodes

  • A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (feat. John DeMay)

    October 18, 2026 · 48 min

    At just 17 years old, Jordan DeMay was murdered by strangers online. That’s how Jordan’s father, John DeMay, described what happened to his son four years ago. At home in Michigan, Jordan was readying for a weekend trip when he received a…

  • A true tale of virtual kidnapping (re-air)

    October 4, 2026 · 19 min

    On Thursday, December 28, 2023, at 8:30 pm in the Utah town of Riverdale, the city police began investigating what they believed was a kidnapping. 17-year-old foreign exchange student Kai Zhuang was missing, and according to Riverdale…

  • The AI plot to scan and destroy books (feat. Emanuel Maiberg)

    September 20, 2026 · 39 min

    If you want AI to tell you a story, it will. If you want that story to sound like one of your favorite authors, it can. And if you’re one of the authors that AI can imitate, you might be a little upset at what feels like theft. In 2024…

  • Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (feat. Kim Sutherland)

    September 6, 2026 · 40 min

    Crooks are taking a holiday. They’re counting on you to fund it. For decades, cybercriminals have stolen roughly the same types of data. Biographical and personal details—like Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, and phone…

  • What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese)

    August 23, 2026 · 37 min

    You will die. Your data will not. The afterlife of our information is a recent phenomenon, and some of the companies with the most to sort through are still just figuring it out. As far back as 2007, Facebook was forced to reckon with mass…

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  • How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (feat. Chris Parr)

    August 9, 2026 · 40 min

    It may sound entirely bizarre but the prices you once paid for hotels, educational classes, or staplers could have all been higher because you used a Mac computer, lived in a certain zip code, or lacked an Office Depot in your…

  • What's your data worth on the dark web?

    July 26, 2026 · 25 min

    Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s relationship with the entire global economy: “Data is the new oil.” Pithy as the phrase sounds, it is undeniably true. Data…

  • Trusting your kids online isn't enough

    July 12, 2026 · 39 min

    There is a lot going on right now regarding the safety of kids online. In the United States, the majority of state legislatures have passed age verification laws requiring a variety of websites to more rigorously verify the age of their…

  • This pay gap is programmed (feat. Veena Dubal)

    June 28, 2026 · 42 min

    Pay is personal for plenty of Americans, but a new distribution model that consumes vast quantities of worker data is turning pay into something else: personalized. For an increasing number of workers in America, the money they can expect…

  • Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (feat. David Chiu)

    June 14, 2026 · 21 min

    If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them. According to new research from Malwarebytes, one in three people who use AI every day said it’s okay to generate pornography of people without their…

  • Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman)

    May 31, 2026 · 40 min

    In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any number of crimes, like funding terrorism, engaging in money laundering, or violating…

  • AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld)

    May 17, 2026 · 35 min

    In May of last year, a warning about AI came from somewhere unexpected: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Posting publicly on social media, the museum warned about a Facebook account using generative AI to create fake images of people…

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Lock and Code tells the human stories within cybersecurity, privacy, and technology. Rogue robot vacuums, hacked farm tractors, and catastrophic software vulnerabilities—it’s all here.