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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.
Unknown Host hosts Lock and Code, a news show with 166 episodes published.
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 i
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
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 mon
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
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 violatin
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
Your prices could be going up because of a little something that one group has started calling the “cyber tax.” Not a “tax” in any regulatory sense of the word, this newly named “cyber tax” is instead a consequence of th
A dreadful thing happens far too often whenever an older adult falls for a scam: They get blamed for it. Not the scammers who lied and cheated their victim out of money. Not law enforcement for failing to recover funds.
Big news : Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can help us win the People’s Voice Award by voting here . --- We have to talk about killer robots. No, not the Terminator, and not some Boston Dyna
Forget the runaway train thrillingly shot in Buster Keaton’s 1926 film “The General,” and never mind the charging locomotive rescued by actors Denzel Washington and Chris Pine in the 2010 film “Unstoppable,” as there’s a
On February 8, during the Super Bowl in the United States, countless owners of one of the most popular smart products today got a bit of a wakeup call: Their Ring doorbells could be used to see a whole lot more than they
A funny thing happened on TikTok last month, and its brought allegations of censorship, manipulation, and control. It was the week of January 22, and after a long legal battle, TikTok had finally—for the first time in it
In January, Google settled a lawsuit that pricked up a few ears: It agreed to pay $68 million to a wide array of people who sued the company together, alleging that Google’s voice-activated smart assistant ha
When you hear the words “data privacy,” what do you first imagine? Maybe you picture going into your social media apps and setting your profile and posts to private. Maybe you think about who you’ve shared your location
There’s a bizarre thing happening online right now where everything is getting worse. Your Google results have become so bad that you’ve likely typed what you’re looking for, plus the word “Reddit,” so you can find discu
There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that has likely already captured your information, all for the non-suspicion of driving a car. Automated License Plate Readers, or ALPRs, are AI-
This is the story of the world’s worst scam and how it is being used to fuel entire underground economies that have the power to rival nation-states across the globe. This is the story of “pig butchering.” “Pig butcherin
It’s often said online that if a product is free, you’re the product, but what if that bargain was no longer true? What if, depending on the device you paid hard-earned money for, you still became a product y
Everything’s easier with AI… except having to correct it. In just the three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, not only has onlife life changed at home—it’s also changed at work. Some of the biggest software companies
In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up. On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the “restrictions” that his company previously placed on their flagship product, ChatGPT, would be
Cory Doctorow
bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor · Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 appearances on this show
Becky Holmes
bestselling author of 'Keanu Reeves is not in Love with You'
3 appearances on this show
Dr. Jean Twenge
psychologist and author of 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World · San Diego State University
1 appearance on this show
Jason Koebler
Editor-In-Chief · 404 Media
1 appearance on this show
Courtney Brown
Vice President of Strategic Impact and Planning · The Farsight Institute
1 appearance on this show
David Chiu
City Attorney · San Francisco City Attorney's Office
1 appearance on this show
Jason Haddix
CEO · Arcanum Information Security
1 appearance on this show
Bruce Schneier
security technologist, author, lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, board member of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt · Harvard Kennedy School
1 appearance on this show
Allan Liska
Ransomware Sommelier · Green Archer Comics
2 appearances on this show
Heather Kelly
Dr. · University of Tennessee
1 appearance on this show
Brad Pitt
1 appearance on this show
Brian Carter
Chief Financial Officer · Concord Church
1 appearance on this show
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