What the Hack?

By DeleteMeTechnology True Crime

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What the Hack? episodes

April 15, 2025 Episode 196: Max Lebow Battles a Cyber PsyOps Nightmare

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48 min
April 08, 2025 Episode 195: Can AI Commit the Perfect Crime?
AI is everywhere – in the news, on our devices, assisting us, making life easier for us, and for criminals, too, harnessing AI to swindle people more efficiently. What’s next? We dive into the dark side of AI and ask two experts: Could AI commit the perfect crime?

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46 min
April 01, 2025 Episode 194: Karen Johnson’s Scam Project Is a Teachable Moment for AI
Karen Johnson is a catfisher-turned-scam avoidance coach turned–you guessed it–catfishing victim. The scam that got her is a classic, opening the door to a Pandora’s Box of the usual advice about avoiding the most common scams out there. But the thing that really got us thinking is the role AI played in almost every aspect of this week’s show.

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35 min
March 18, 2025 Episode 193: Roy Wood, Jr. Exposes the Loch Ness Monster Gun Lobby Conspiracy
As a Daily Show correspondent, comedian Roy Wood, Jr. knows a thing or two about fake news and truthiness as well as the truth-and-a-half that is comedy. By skewering the media and the people in the news, he has special insight into how misinformation affects the way we think about the world and what we know.

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38 min
March 11, 2025 Episode 192: Max McCoy Investigates $47 Million That Isn’t in Kansas Anymore
Max McCoy stumbled on a $47 million swindle that starts just north of the Oklahoma panhandle and bounces to Australia before things get really confusing in a haze of small town corruption, secretive law enforcement and competing theories.

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49 min
March 04, 2025 Episode 191: Erin West Puts the Bad Guys to Shame
Erin West is the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, California, and the founder of Project Shamrock. Whether she’s prosecuting eye-popping SIM-swap money grabs or putting large-scale pig butchering operations out of business, her stories and experience can help you stay safer.

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42 min
February 25, 2025 Episode 190: Dick Gephardt Wants a Safer Internet
Former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt is on a mission to kill Section 230, the legal shield that lets social media giants profit from chaos. If engagement-driven algorithms are fueling harmful content for the sake of profit, is it time for the U.S. to take bold action to rein in the Internet? (You know the answer, but this is a must listen!)

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42 min
February 18, 2025 Episode 189: Kara Swisher Calls Out the Man Babies of Big Tech
Kara Swisher has been covering Silicon Valley since the early days, and she’s made a ton of enemies the old fashioned way (by telling the truth about the new robber barons of our digital lives). In a new memoir called Burn Book, she pulls the curtain back on a world run by powerful babies.

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40 min
February 11, 2025 Episode 188: Jen Caltrider Unwraps Hidden Privacy Nightmares
Privacy expert Jen Caltrider reveals how those shiny new AI gadgets with their mind-bending tech—not to mention the social media apps capturing every moment—are a privacy nightmare. Is going analog the only safe option? Learn how to protect your data from the prying eyes of Big Tech.

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45 min
February 04, 2025 Episode 187: Al Franken Holds a Mock Senate Hearing on Privacy with Siri and Alexa
No deep fake here. This week, Al Franken does his own impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Sherrod Brown and Susan Collins in this mock Senate Hearing featuring Siri (played by the actual voice-over talent Susan Bennett) and Al’s fellow SNL alum Laraine Newman playing the part of Alexa.

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27 min