Bob Sullivan’s podcast projects

Bob is currently the host of AARP’s The Perfect Scam podcast. Listeners ride along weekly as scam victims and professional con artists tell their stories. Co-host Frank “Catch Me if You Can” Abagnale rounds out a roster of experts who help listeners avoid digital criminals.

Debugger is a podcast about technology and democracy, produced with help from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.

Breach is a deep-dive audio documentary that investigates history’s biggest hackers. Bob is co-host with Alia Tavakolian of Spoke Media. Season 1 uncovers the role of Russia in the massive Yahoo hack; Season 2 examines the comedy of errors that led to the Equifax breach. Sponsored by Carbonite. A Shorty Award finalist.

No Place to Hide is a 6-episode miniseries examining the state of privacy in America, from abusive digital police tactics to abusive romantic partners who hunt down victims through cyberspace. Bob co-hosts with Spoke Media’s Alia Tavakolian. Part fiction, part non-fiction. Sponsored by Intel.

“So, Bob?” is a weekly investigation of the unintended consequences of technology.

LATEST EPISODES

So, Bob podcast: Why is my sleep app recording me at night? Did I consent to that?

May 17, 2019 Bob Sullivan 1

How would you feel if you discovered your smartphone was recording you while you sleep without your knowledge? Last year, co-host Alia Tavakolian came to me when she discovered a sleep app had made dozens of such recordings. Worse yet, to hear what was on the files, she had to [Keep reading]

To begin at the beginning: Is the Internet good or bad? So, Bob… podcast, episode 1

May 7, 2019 Bob Sullivan 2

I’ve spent a year working with Alia Tavakolian and Spoke Media developing this podcast, and I’ve spent almost 25 years preparing for it. So, please give it a try. Click play below, if a play button appears, or click on this Stitcher link or this iTunes link. I started [Keep reading]

‘So….Bob?’ my new podcast about the unintended consequences of tech, is coming in one week (listen to the 2-minute trailer now)

April 29, 2019 Bob Sullivan 0

Every once in a while, a passion project becomes something real. And I’m over-the-moon to share with you news of our new podcast, called “So…Bob?” — a weekly conversation about the unintended consequences of technology. I haven’t been this excited about a new project since the birth of The Red [Keep reading]

Breach podcast, the conclusion: ‘Privacy died but it can be reborn’

April 17, 2019 Bob Sullivan 1

Today concludes the Equifax hack podcast. But the story of the Equifax hack is much bigger than a tale of lost Social Security numbers. It’s about corporate greed. Exploitation of a natural resource (us) for gross profit margins. It’s about control. Epidsode 6 zooms out and returns to the [Keep reading]

She sued Equifax, and won, at a ‘cutie poo little courthouse’

April 15, 2019 Bob Sullivan 1

If you’ve ever been wronged by a large company and wanted to do more than shake your angry irst at a building, you’re going to enjoy meeting Jessamyn West. When the Equifax hack hit, she wanted to do more than whine to friends and family. She wanted justice. So she [Keep reading]

Breach podcast: Equifax’s (bungled) response

April 8, 2019 Bob Sullivan 1

Everyone makes mistakes. And every company might suffer a data breach. After years of examples, two things should be obvious to every company: 1) You will likely be hacked and 2) You should have an airtight, lock-solid plan for dealing with the aftermath of such an inevitable hack. Obvious, apparently, [Keep reading]

Breach podcast: The 76 days that changed America’s conversation about privacy forever (that’s how long hackers were inside Equifax)

March 19, 2019 Bob Sullivan 8

Now, we’re getting into the nitty-gritty. How did criminals get inside Equifax, and what were all the missteps inside the company that led to the hack? In episode three, we hear from the GAO investigators who actually got inside Equifax and interviewed the principals involved. We find out that it [Keep reading]

BREACH PODCAST: ‘The worst password ever created’ — and possibly the worst business model, too

March 11, 2019 Bob Sullivan 0

There are some things you can do in a podcast you can’t do with the written word. Here’s one: For this episode of Breach, we tracked down audio of the CEO of Equifax speaking at a business school in 2017. His words are tough to take knowing what we know [Keep reading]

Equifax security team gives itself good grades during breach; ‘shreds’ some internal documents

March 7, 2019 Bob Sullivan 1

Congress once again hauled Equifax in front of a committee to testify about its 2017 hack on Thursday, and issued yet another report outlining a cascade of errors at the firm which led to the incident. The Equifax hack is the subject of our 6-week investigative podcast, Breach. Click here [Keep reading]

Equifax: ‘This is … the big one we’ve all been waiting for’ — Breach podcast season 2, episode 1, drops today

March 4, 2019 Bob Sullivan 0

“This is, potentially, the motherload. The big one we’ve all been waiting for.” — Ron Lieber, The New York Times “Your Money” columnist. So begins our second season of Breach, which just dropped today. We begin with an episode titled “Why, Equifax?” — which means all the things you think [Keep reading]

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