A collection of Bob Sullivan’s various podcasts.
“We have said so many times, if we’d only known, if we’d only known, if we’d only known. Then countless lives could have been saved.” — Loren Adair, whose mom was killed by Billy Chemirmir Today, I’m letting you know that the final episode of our four-part series on serial [Keep reading]
“Mother had gone to lunch that week with her friends and she said…I may need to move. These people are dying around me. I didn’t realize it was not a joke.” Dozens of older Americans were murdered — in the end, the victims might really number into the hundreds — [Keep reading]
Dianna Tannery: “I was more… horrified just knowing that… that she didn’t die peacefully in her sleep. That her last few minutes was struggling and trying to breathe. So I think about that every night.” Loren Adair: “My brother and I both started having nightmares. I would have visions of [Keep reading]
Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and .. well, a lot is going on. One really important development that might be overlooked in the noise and chaos since the acquisition is Musk’s new – and now delayed – attempt to change Twitter’s Blue Check system. Verification online is a very, [Keep reading]
“Do your own research” sounds like a harmless — unassailable? — suggestion. It’s more complicated than that, says today’s guest, UNC professor Francesa Tripodi, author of the new book The Propagandists’ Playbook. In this episode of Debugger in 10, Tripodi discusses the IKEA Effect in research, why Googling is more [Keep reading]
Should a company executive face criminal charges after a data breach? That’s one of the questions opened up by the remarkable trial recently of Joe Sullivan, former head of cyber security at Uber, who was recently convicted of essentially hiding a hack from federal investigators. The case has people in [Keep reading]
For decades, American workers and employers had dabbled with the idea of telecommuting — working from home — but only a tiny fraction of workplaces really allowed it. Then the pandemic hit. The world was plunged into a real-time experiment in remote work, and despite an awful lot of ups [Keep reading]
In the digital age, crime is often all about economies of scale. Many of the tools we’ve built make things very easy for criminals. It’s cheap to send millions of emails, so spam is a problem. You probably knew that. But you might not know how cheap it is to [Keep reading]
In a crime so ugly it’s hard to believe it’s real, billion-dollar corporations have turned their algorithmic ray guns on elderly and vulnerable Americans — specifically to help criminals deliver convincing lottery spam and other scams. And they did it for years. I’ve covered this topic before, but this week [Keep reading]
When Bank of America put Hank Molenaar on hold recently, it told the Houston resident there would be a long wait time and he could press 1 to get a call back instead. But before the bank called, criminals called, impersonating the bank, and stole his money via Zelle. It [Keep reading]
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