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Lock and Code

Malwarebytes

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.

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172 episodes

  1. What do your apps know about you? (re-air, feat. Tim Shott) 43:56
  2. A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (feat. John DeMay) 48:28
  3. A true tale of virtual kidnapping (re-air) 18:54
  4. The AI plot to scan and destroy books (feat. Emanuel Maiberg) 39:19
  5. Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (feat. Kim Sutherland) 39:58
  6. What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese) 36:39
  7. How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (feat. Chris Parr) 39:41
  8. What's your data worth on the dark web? 24:30
  9. Trusting your kids online isn't enough 39:20
  10. This pay gap is programmed (feat. Veena Dubal) 41:58
  11. Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (feat. David Chiu) 21:17
  12. Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman) 40:19
  13. AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld) 35:21
  14. Cyberattacks are raising your prices (feat. Eva Velasquez) 40:31
  15. Big Tech can stop scams. They just don’t (feat. Marti DeLiema) 41:02
  16. Killer robots are here. Now what? (feat. Peter Asaro) 42:32
  17. This is all it takes to stop a train (feat. Rachel Swan) 35:42
  18. Won't you see my neighbor? (feat. Matt Guariglia) 31:47
  19. What can't you say on TikTok? 43:02
  20. Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen) (re-air) 42:17
  21. One privacy change for 2026 18:14
  22. Enshittification is ruining everything online (feat. Cory Doctorow) 53:12
  23. ALPRs are recording your daily drive (feat. Will Freeman) 35:44
  24. Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (feat. Erin West) 44:13
  25. Air fryer app caught asking for voice data (re-air) 27:33
  26. Your coworker is tired of AI "workslop" (feat. Dr. Kristina Rapuano) 33:01
  27. Would you sext ChatGPT? (feat. Deb Donig) 51:10
  28. What does Google know about me? 27:05
  29. What's there to save about social media? (feat. Rabble) 50:13
  30. Can you disappear online? (feat. Peter Dolanjski) 52:41
  31. This “insidious” police tech claims to predict crime (feat. Emily Galvin-Almanza) 48:28
  32. How a scam hunter got scammed (feat. Julie-Anne Kearns) 37:50
  33. “The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (feat. Jason Kelley) 40:31
  34. How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air, feat. Joseph Cox) 52:02
  35. Is AI "healthy" to use? 45:29
  36. Corpse-eating selfies, and other ways to trick scammers (feat. Becky Holmes) 45:26
  37. The data on denying social media for kids (feat. Dr. Jean Twenge) (re-air) 46:15
  38. What does Facebook know about me? 31:33
  39. How Los Angeles banned smartphones in schools (feat. Nick Melvoin) 26:11
  40. The AI chatbot cop squad is here (feat. Emanuel Maiberg and Jason Koebler) 46:12
  41. Did DOGE "breach" Americans' data? (feat. Sydney Saubestre) 36:30
  42. Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen) 40:10
  43. What Google Chrome knows about you, with Carey Parker 50:14
  44. How ads weirdly know your screen brightness, headphone jack use, and location, with Tim Shott 43:52
  45. Surveillance pricing is "evil and sinister," explains Justin Kloczko 28:06
  46. A suicide reveals the lonely side of AI chatbots, with Courtney Brown 38:28
  47. Three privacy rules for 2025 37:48
  48. The new rules for AI and encrypted messaging, with Mallory Knodel 47:06
  49. Is nowhere safe from AI slop? 38:37
  50. A day in the life of a privacy pro, with Ron de Jesus 33:44