S7, E280 - Asked About Skin Medicine, an AI Broke Into a Government System
Send us Fan Mail In June, an AI agent was given a boring research task: find out how much Victoria, Australia, spends on skin medicines. It ended up inside a non-public system behind Australia’s Medic...
12 Okt 13min
S7, E279 - No Receipts: The Truth Behind AI Layoffs | The Problem Lounge
Send us Fan Mail Cameron & Gabe dig into 2026's wave of AI-blamed layoffs — the stats companies cite, the receipts they never bring, and what it actually means for the next generation of workers. Head...
28 Sep 30min
S7, E278 - Anthropic Researcher Quits: "We Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"
Send us Fan Mail Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then Anthropic. This week he resigned and posted a seven-part thread claiming neither company is acting responsi...
11 Sep 11min
S7, E277 - He Used a Police Camera Network to Track His Girlfriend 180 Times
Send us Fan Mail Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are in over 5,000 communities and used by more than 40,000 cameras nationwide — sold to cities as a tool to catch car thieves and find m...
25 Aug 12min
S7, E276 - Ransomware Doesn't Have to Hit Like a Hurricane (with Jonathan Sander)
Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Sander is back on Privacy Please — and he's brought two blog posts worth arguing about. Sander (42 Notions, now in an operational role at Myota) joins Cam and Gabe to dig int...
2 Aug 49min
S7, E275 - Choose Wisely: GigaWiper, Your New Delete Button & The Gold Bar Grift
Send us Fan Mail Full Show Notes This week on Privacy Please, Cam breaks down four stories that all come back to one theme: choice. GigaWiper — Microsoft researchers uncovered a new backdoor malware ...
18 Jul 9min
S7, E274 - Your Password Is Already For Sale
Send us Fan Mail Last year, every major outlet ran the same story: 16 billion passwords exposed. Apple. Google. Facebook. The largest breach in history. It was overblown. Security experts tore it apar...
29 Jun 20min
S7, E273 - Inside Shiny Hunters And The New Era Of SaaS Breaches
Send us Fan Mail Gabe and I dig into Shiny Hunters and why the scariest cyberattacks now look like ordinary logins instead of dramatic break-ins. We map how credential theft, social engineering, and S...
4 Jun 24min
