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Hosted by Rob Leathern · technology · EN · 19 episodes
From the founders of InfoHawk: conversations about AI-driven deception, abuse and scams, and why they’re so hard to stop. In software engineering, “won’t fix” describes a bug by acknowledging the issue but intentionally leaving it unsolved because addressing it is too costly, risky, or not worth the trade-offs. Hear from the practitioners fighting phishing, deepfakes and bots, and learn about the broken systems and misaligned incentives that keep us all vulnerable.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFrom the founders of InfoHawk: conversations about AI-driven deception, abuse and scams, and why they’re so hard to stop. In software engineering, “won’t fix” describes a bug by acknowledging the issue but intentionally leaving it unsolved because addressing it is too costly, risky, or not worth the trade-offs.
Won't Fix is hosted by Rob Leathern. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Won't Fix Episode 19: With Author Becky Holmes" (16 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Won't Fix Episode 18: With Jon Leibowitz Former Chairman, FTC" (9 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "Won't Fix Episode 17: With Dave Willner, Co-Founder of Zentropi" (25 September 2026, 53 minutes).
Won't Fix publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 19 episodes.
Booking probability for Won't Fix is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Won't Fix requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Won't Fix's contact route on record: public web form.
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Rob Leathern hosts Won't Fix, a technology show with 19 episodes published.
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Episode #19
Somewhere out there, Keanu Reeves is desperately in love with you. So is Jason Statham. And a brave peacekeeping soldier who just needs a few gift cards to get home. Of course, none of them are real. Keanu Reeves isn’t...
Episode #18
My guest Jon Leibowitz spent nearly a decade at the Federal Trade Commission, and four years running it — as Chairman from 2009 to 2013, right through the wreckage of the financial crisis. During Jon’s chairmanship...
Episode #17
My guest today is Dave Willner, cofounder of Zentropi and a fixture in the Trust and Safety world. In 2008, he was a young Facebook employee who sat down to replace a one-page list of banned content — it said, roughly...
Episode #16
The question "is this business real, and should I believe what it's telling me" isn't new. It's about as old as American commerce. What's changed is that you can now spin up a company, a website, and a merchant account...
Episode #14
My guest, Ajit Varma, is Head of Firefox at Mozilla, where he leads Firefox strategy and product. He joined Mozilla in late 2024, from Meta, where he worked on monetization and business messaging for WhatsApp. He's also...
Episode #13
Rob Leathern speaks to privacy attorney and host of The Monopoly Report Podcast, Alan Chapell, about residential proxies, privacy and podcasting. Hear how free smart TV apps might be sharing your home IP address with...
Episode #12
Jeff Allen is the Co-founder and Chief Research Officer of the Integrity Institute, started in 2021. A physicist and astronomer by training, moved into data science in 2013, and has since worked all three sides of the...
Episode #11
Ben Edelman has spent two decades catching online fraud that hides in plain sight — combining software engineering, law, and economics to prove misconduct empirically rather than take companies at their word. In this...
Episode #10
On July 7, 2026, HUMAN’s Satori team exposed NewsJunkie , a massive, coordinated connected television (CTV) device-spoofing operation that generated up to two billion invalid bid requests per day, per seller. In this...
Episode #9
Juliet Shen is cofounder and Head of Product at ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a nonprofit building open-source trust-and-safety infrastructure for platforms of every size. She has done anti-abuse product work...
Episode #8
Dave Kleidermacher is a vice president of engineering at Google, leading engineering for Android security and privacy. His scope encompasses Android and the Made-by-Google world — Pixel, Nest, Fitbit, and the Play...
Episode #7
My guest today is Jeremy Galen, founder of Charlemagne Labs. Jeremy spent twelve years at Meta working in privacy, safety, and security — most recently five years as a product manager in trust and safety, focused on...
Episode #6
<p>Tate Jarrow is the Founder and CEO of Rebound (https://trustrebound.com), a consumer anti-scam company. Before founding Rebound, Tate was an Army infantry officer and Airborne Ranger, and then a Special Agent at the...
Episode #5
<p>Jonathan spent thirty years inside the machine — product leadership at DoubleClick, executive roles at Google, and a founding role at Harvard's Applied Social Media Lab. A year ago, Jonathan started writing...
Episode #4
<p>Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist who has spent more than 15 years researching and reporting on the manipulation of our information environment. He is currently the co-founder of Indicator, a media...
Episode #3
<p>Assaf Kipnis spent years hunting financially motivated bad actors on Meta's e-crime team and in Google's Ads Trust & Safety org.</p><p>He now runs KTLYST Labs, where he's building the threat intelligence tooling he...
Episode #2
<p>Investigative journalist Tom Wright (Project Brazen) joins Rob Leathern to discuss the staggering rise of Benjamin Mauerberger, a South African money launderer who utilized crypto exchanges and high-level political...
Episode #1
<p>In this first episode of Won't Fix, Rob Leathern talks to Jason Zoltak.</p><p>Jason is the founder and CEO of tofu, which is using AI and machine learning to fight fraud and deception in hiring and...
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