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Jon King and Eric Wuehler

From commentary on current events to random musings, they chat (mostly) about security and technology topics. However, life is more than just the day job, there's always something fun to wrap up the show.

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  • S1 · E445
    June 19 · 32 min

    445: Law of the Tongue

    Jon sees a movie. Not to be outdone, so does Eric. World Economic Forum reports on AI Fraud. Microsoft patches a Rogue Planet. A zombie spider may be the Last of Us. Whales have a phonetic alphabet. Humans and Orcas used to work together until #Greed. 0:00 - Introduction 9:07 - AI Fraud is Number One 17:08 - Rogue Planet 23:09 - Zombie Spiders 25:49 - Whale Speak 30:02 - Greedy Humans

  • S1 · E444
    June 13 · 41 min

    444: Malicious Beaver

    Eric sleeps and the ad experiment goes poorly. Jon does too much driving and not enough email reading. Meta's support AI hands out accounts when prompted, Microsoft releases another record breaking patch Tuesday, and what it's like working with Fable (and an unlimited token budget?). Toronto releases the Beavers, and why shouldn't a robot have All The Legs? 0:00 - Intro 15:00 - AI Blunder 21:14 - Record Breaking Tuesday 24:39 - Fable Studio 32:16 - The Great Beaver Quest 36:30 - Dynamic Isotropy Maximization

  • S1 · E443
    June 6 · 38 min

    443: Pump Up the Volume

    Eric is in the home wedding stretch, or, something like that and tries out Apple Ads. Jon has eight queens and eventually ended up at the symphony. Checking in with the rise of inference theft and account token theft (unrelated) with a quick Hermes sidetrack. Eric puts out fires with sound and Jon digs down near Notre Dame. 0:00 - Introduction 15:05 - Rise of Inference Theft 20:07 - Lows of Token Theft 26:13 - Hermes 28:31 - The Sound of Fire Suppression 33:01 - Notre Dame Dig

  • S1 · E442
    May 30 · 27 min

    442: Potato Tomato

    Eric passes a life milestone, and Jon does not (yet). The foam peddler might get stuffed, and Mythos consequences continue. Multiple (useless?) web funs, and the greatest (currently) living composer. 0:00 - Intro 8:27 - Shredded Foam 11:31 - More Mythos 18:29 - Discernment 19:18 - Edge Experiment 20:28 - Cursor Camp 22:00 - Jon Fun

  • S1 · E441
    May 23 · 29 min

    441: Old School Hacker Flex

    Wedding day week for Eric, and Jon may have a 7th hive (NB: Nope, didn't happen). Mythos + MacOS == 55 page hand delivered report to Apple Park, a contractor at CISA dumps creds in an open GitHub repo, and Cloudflare runs Mythos for exploit PoC generation. Journalists found the answer for K4 by Journalisting, and arXiv announces publishing bans for AI slop. 0:00 - Intro 6:30 - 55 Pages, Hand Delivered 10:27 - Private-CISA 13:11 - Cloudflare + Mythos 20:28 - Journalists vs. K4 24:21 - Slop Ban

  • S1 · E440
    May 16 · 26 min

    440: Metalheads

    Eric experiences the good, the bad, and the indifferent, while Jon is full on into spring chores. Firefox is the first (?) company to fix a massive haul of mythos identified vulnerabilities and Cloudflare posts an interesting response to Copy Fail. Scorpions incorporate metal into their stingers and pincers, and the clearest map to date of > 164,000 galaxies from the JWST. 0:00 - Intro 9:43 - Mythos + Firefox 14:40 - Cloudflare vs Copy Fail 19:27 - Heavy Metal Scorpions 23:10 - 164,000 Galaxies

  • S1 · E439
    May 8 · 31 min

    439: Your Fortunes Are Flipping

    Eric enjoys Taco Cinco de Mayo Tuesday. Jon get unexpected bees. The AccountDumpling Gang is out and about. DAEMON Tools and Instructure have a bad day. Eric spells random words with Landsat and Jon finds a world with an unexpected atmosphere. 0:00 - Introduction 10:08 - AccountDumpling Gang 14:44 - DAEMON Tools Bad Day 18:58 - Instructure's Bad Day 24:17 - Landsat Letters 27:18 - Unexpected Atmospheres

  • S1 · E438
    May 2 · 39 min

    438: Infinite Box

    Eric preps for an exciting week and it's all Bees in Jon's world at the moment. Will mythos overwhelming matter to the already overwhelmed, GitHub push options unescaped, and LiteLLM under active exploit hours after disclosure. Will OpenAI succeed in an AI-first phone, and detecting insect varieties with AI. 0:00 - Intro 13:19 - Little* Less Scary 19:50 - Little Bobby Push Options 24:13 - LiteLLM Exploit 28:04 - AI Phone 34:50 - Wingbeat Radar

  • S1 · E437
    April 24 · 25 min

    437: Real NY Pizza

    Eric kicked off talking about the latest wedding prep and Jon awaits his bees. A fake crypto app stole $9.5 million right off the Apple App Store, plus a review of 2026's nastiest cyberattacks. On the science side, Eric shared the wild discovery of trees secretly sparking with invisible UV light during storms, and Jon wrapped up by theorizing how the JWST found unexpected, thick water-ice clouds on a cold super-Jupiter exoplanet. 0:00 - Introduction 7:26 - Fake Crypto App 12:34 - 2026 Cyberattacks so far 18:19 - Sparking Trees 21:14 - Water-ice Clouds

  • S1 · E436
    April 18 · 32 min

    436: Life Sized Cutout

    Jon gets stopped by a Coffee Cop and Eric prepares some cardboard for a wedding in a couple of weeks. The Fed worries about Mythos, spear phishing is getting real, RCE of an agent builder, and Google starts rolling out device bound sessions. For fun we have a Bee documentary (but not from Jon), a book that may or may not turn out great, and improved opportunities to (someday) deploy CRISPR. 0:00 - Intro 10:30 - Mythos Preview + Banks 11:29 - Efficiency Explosion 15:59 - Flowise RCE 18:21 - Device Bound Sessions 21:42 - Eric Fun 23:22 - The Will of the Many 28:32 - Smaller and CRISPR

  • S1 · E435
    April 11 · 36 min

    435: To The Moon and Back!

    Jon has bee disappointments and Eric geeks out over the Artemis II mission. AI Agents are the attack surface. The ClickFix macOS abuse evolves. Anthropic's new AI Model is apparently pretty smart. Sandstorm found on Mars. Finally, mapping neuron connections using RNA barcodes? 0:00 - Introduction 8:24 - Artemis II 13:32 - AI Agent Dangers 19:33 - ClickFix Evolution 24:31 - Anthropic's New Model 29:04 - Sandstorm on Mars 32:04 - RNA Barcodes

  • S1 · E434
    April 4 · 41 min

    434: Squares Revival

    Eric releases updated apps, and Jon's back from vacation. Autonomous jailbreaks, a malicious release of a popular npm package, and Anthropic accidentally releases source maps for claude code. The Artemis II launched successfully, and an opportunistic visit to bronze age burial cairns. 0:00 - Intro 17:18 - AI, Attack Thy Brethren 22:04 - Malicious Axios Package 26:58 - Claude Code Leak 35:21 - To The Moon! 37:40 - Clava Cairns

  • S1 · E433
    March 27 · 27 min

    433: Mostly Fun, Vol 3

    Spring Break! Jon shares a couple fun notes before heading out and Eric pulls a few favorites from the archives. Enjoy Something Fun! 0:00 - Spring Break! 0:29 - Hidden Water Beneath Mars 2:36 - Chickpeas Grown in Simulated Moon Soil 4:43 - Episode 403: Commodore 64 8:51 - Episode 403: Really Old Honey 12:48 - Episode 378: Woolly Mammoth Mouse 16:15 - Episode 378: Greenland Sharks 21:48 - Episode 397: Aardwolfs and Numbats

  • S1 · E432
    March 21 · 25 min

    432: False Colored

    Eric enjoys Mozart's Requiem and Antigravity. Jon goes fishing. Amazon Kuiper is now Leo. Claude vulnerabilities are chained to do bad things. Google releases the H1 2026 Cloud Threat Horizons Report. Ravens are smart. Spiral Galaxies are cool. 0:00 - Introduction 8:13 - Amazon Leo 10:46 - Claudy Day 15:27 - Google Cloud Threat Report 21:31 - Wolf-Predicting Ravens 23:10 - Spiral Galaxy

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