Privacy Files

In this episode of Privacy Files, we continue our multipart series on the dark web. We examine the complexities of dark web crimes and discuss their far-reaching impacts. To help us navigate this subject, we talk to Tammy Harper. Tammy is a Senior Threat Analyst, Dark Web Investigator and Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) consultant. Dark web crimes are surprisingly nuanced. While not an exhaustive deep dive, we explore some of the most salient angles. We kick off the episode by looking at the struggle to balance anonymity with accountability. Many people use the dark web for privacy, but there are also those who use that privacy to commit crimes. Can privacy be maintained while still allowing law enforcement to do its job? Next, we cover a variety of dark web topics such as evolving encryption technologies (and backdoors), the global impact of dark web crimes, and insider threats and corporate espionage. One of the most fascinating topics, is the psychological impacts of dark web crimes. A 2020 study found a link between mental health issues and dark web addiction. The dark web can also be a breeding ground for cyberbullying and online harassment. In the last half of the episode, we get into how dark web crimes have eroded trust in legitimate online services. We follow that up with the ethics and responsibility of technology providers, collaborative approaches to dark web mitigation, and how the dark web is a reflection of societal issues. OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

Watch YouTuber Kitboga Bait Scammers: https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow/featured Have a scam for Kitboga to look into? Email him at: hello@kitbogashow.com Scam call centers are big business. Employees head into a typical-looking office building and put in their 40-plus hours every week sitting in cramped cubicles. But unlike most common office workers, these employees spend their days trying to con people out of their hard-earned money. And the most well-known version of the call-center-based scam is the tech support scam. The criminal world of call-center-based tech support scams is a global industry that bleeds victims of $47 billion US dollars each year--affecting three out of every five consumers. In this episode of Privacy Files, we welcome YouTuber Kitboga to the show to talk about how some of the most common call-center-based scams work and how you can protect yourself from becoming a victim. With more than three million subscribers and nearly 500 hilarious videos, Kitboga is one of the most well-known scam baiters on earth. While his videos are incredibly entertaining, they all serve a primary purpose of educating the public about various call-center-based scams designed to pilfer money from the innocent. Kitboga begins the episode by discussing the inspiration for his YouTube channel and recounts a couple of key moments early on that let him know his unique content was resonating with people. We then dive into the nuances of some of the most common forms of tech support scams, including the message popup and the fake tech support hotline Google Ad. Kitboga then addresses the growing number of call-center-based scams that don't involve the usual tech support angle. These types of scams include Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Impersonation, Social Security Fraud, Fake Loans, Pension Fraud, Extended Warranty Fraud and other types of Consumer Financial Fraud. The conversation then moves to the typical profile of call-center-based scam victims. Along the way, Kitboga discusses his plans for expanding his content beyond tech support scam baiting. One idea he's mulling over is to target the perpetrators of dating app catfishing scams. We close out the episode with Sarah providing a series of tips for avoiding call-center-based scams. Kitboga weighs in and adds some insightful wisdom of his own. You'll definitely want to listen to the end as Kitboga reveals his plans for life after scam baiting. Links Referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZReZ24-to https://firstorion.com/scam-call-centers/ https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls-and-texts OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

You might not be familiar with the term Real-Time Bidding (RTB), but if you browse the web, you're likely participating in this privacy-compromising activity hundreds of time each day. According to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), "RTB is the largest data breach ever recorded. It tracks and shares what people view online and their real-world location 294 billion times in the U.S. and 197 billion times in Europe every day." In America, this intrusive activity exposes the average person's online activity and location 747 times every single day. In this episode of Privacy Files, we pull back the curtain on the mysterious world of digital ad auctions and how RTB broadcasts are continuously comprising the personal data of unsuspecting web users. RTB is essentially an automated auction where the buying and selling of ads takes place in the mere span of approximately 200 milliseconds. The auction begins the moment you click on a link and visit a page that displays ads. Before the page fully loads, the website's publisher sends available ad space dimensions to what's called the Supply-Side Platform. From there, the Supply-Side Platform looks at your browser cookies to make assessments about your web activity, interests, demographics and so much more. This information will be used to determine which ad is most relevant to you. Then the Demand-Side Platform assigns a value to you (the user) and places a bid on the ad space based on your cookie data. Finally, the Supply-Side Platform receives the bids and picks a winner based on the highest and most relevant bid. Once the ad is chosen, the webpage loads and the winning ad is revealed. So what's the problem? Once personal data is broadcast via RTB, there's no control over where and how it might be used. Companies involved in the auction can actually access the bid stream data even without bidding. Furthermore, even though bid stream data is typically anonymized, it's relatively easy to match a user to their information. Data brokers can package the bid stream data (particularly valuable location data) and sell it to other companies and even governments with little oversight. In all, there are 178 trillion RTB broadcasts about people in the US and Europe every year. And even worse, the RTB market is growing. One study forecasts the RTB market to reach $34.57 billion by 2027--a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 25.2%. To close out the episode, we give you some simple tips for protecting your personal data from RTB broadcasts. Links Referenced: https://mysudo.com/2022/07/this-is-why-you-should-worry-about-your-personal-information-in-targeted-advertising/ https://mysudo.com/2022/06/were-all-part-of-the-biggest-data-breach-everyday-mysudo-private-browsers-can-protect-you/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/16/iccl-rtb-report-google-gdpr/ https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/going-once-going-twice-sold-real-time-7645080/ https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Mass-data-breach-of-Europe-and-US-data-1.pdf https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-time-bidding-rtb-global-153700963.html OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

When you think about the dark web, culture is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. However, to really understand something, culture is one of the first places you should look. When you understand a culture, you can recognize patterns. And when you recognize patterns, suddenly, a full story emerges. In this episode of Privacy Files, we interview Evan Blicker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eblick/), a former cyber crimes detective with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Pasco County, Florida. During his law enforcement career, Evan worked in the field conducting criminal investigations and even served as a hostage negotiator. But the one area he was most passionate about was the dark web. As a cyber crimes detective looking for the bad guys of the dark web, Evan developed a strong understanding for how things operate in the deepest recesses of the web--a place few of us will ever go. Evan helped build the dark web investigation program at the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. As a dark web investigator, Evan investigated criminal cases and gathered intelligence. He also worked with federal law enforcement as a Task Force Officer to help solve dark web cases. During his time as a Task Force Officer conducting federal criminal investigations related to the dark web, Evan participated in undercover operations and pursued those who exploited children. Evan's expertise in the dark web, digital forensics and OSINT made this one of the most informative and fascinating episodes we've ever recorded. He gave us the insider story on "red rooms" and whether or not real hitmen are crawling the dark web. We also learned about the importance of trust between buyers and sellers operating inside dark web black markets and each party vets out the other. Can you believe that online reviews on the dark web are a real thing? From banner ads promoting illicit items and the nuanced vernacular of different markets, to journalists fighting censorship and privacy-minded people simply looking to live more privately, this is an excellent opportunity to learn the objective truth about the inner workings of the dark web from someone who made a living learning about its deepest secrets. OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

The internet is a lot of things. It is informative...sometimes deceptive. It brings people together when they are separated by great physical distances. It makes shopping easier than at any other time in human history. But there is also a dark side. But is it as sinister as the media makes it out to be? The dark web conjures up images of a deep recess within the web where anything goes. A place where so-called "red rooms" live stream the torture and murdering of innocent people. A shadowy digital world where hitmen sell their services for as little as $5,000. But is the dark web really this evil? In this episode of Privacy Files, we kick of a multi-part series on the dark web by laying the foundation for what the dark web really is and how it came about. We start by explaining the differences between the surface web, the deep web and the dark web. The surface web, the indexed part of the web most of us are familiar with, is less than 10% of the entire web. Considering that in April 2023 there were more than 30 billion webpages indexed on the surface web alone, the entirety of the web is mind-blowing. Then we dive into the origins of the dark web by looking at its history and evolution. The dark web as we know it today traces its roots back to the 1990s when researchers at the Naval Research Lab (NRL) created the first designs and prototypes for onion routing, which relies on a decentralized network. In the mid-2000s the Tor Project launched and the Tor browser soon followed. Today, the Tor browser is how most people access the dark web, with one study placing the number of daily Tor users at 2.6 million. While Tor and the dark web are used by criminals, they are also championed by privacy advocates around the world. These privacy patriots include whistleblowers, political dissidents, independent journalists and those fighting government censorship. In all, we give you an objective look at the good and the bad of the dark web. Our conclusions might surprise you. They surprised us. To wrap up the episode, we provide you with some helpful tips for navigating the dark web and leave you with a few clear words of caution. If you don't have a good reason for navigating the dark web, it's probably best to stay away. Links Referenced: https://www.techspot.com/article/2660-the-dark-web/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12119027/Im-tech-correspondent-used-dark-web-day-heres-saw.html https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dark-web-chatgpt-unleashed-meet-darkbert https://kratikal.com/blog/surface-web-and-dark-web-exploring-layers-of-web/ https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/deep-web https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuHn27dFpE https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2019/09/the-truth-about-the-dark-web-kumar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvthTjC0OI https://www.makeuseof.com/dark-web-legitimate-uses/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgXeXmNecto https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12042561/I-bought-5-items-Dark-Web-wont-believe-sent.html https://www.torproject.org/ OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

There are approximately 18 million students enrolled in degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States. Globally, that number balloons to 235 million students. And as technology evolves, it finds its way into today's college campus life one way or another. But is it always for the betterment of students? Can college students maintain their privacy during a period in their life that seems so exposed? In this episode of Privacy Files we take a look at some of the common risk exposures college students face when it comes to protecting their personal data. To facilitate our discussion, Connor joined us in-studio to provide his unique perspective as a senior at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. We begin the episode by examining the controversial practice of remote proctoring. Exploding during the pandemic, remote proctoring became commonplace for college students taking exams. But what has alarmed privacy advocates is the practice of requiring students to use their webcam to remotely scan their room prior to the start of testing. In 2022, after a Cleveland State University student filed a lawsuit against the school, U.S. District Court Judge J. Philip Calabrese agreed that room scanning was unconstitutional, stating that the student's "privacy interest in his home outweighs Cleveland State’s interests in scanning his room.” Connor then shares his experiences with remote proctoring and webcam room scanning while attending the University of Utah during the pandemic. Sarah then talks about how the remote proctoring industry is growing. She cites a research study forecasting that the online exam proctoring market will reach nearly $4 billion by 2032, up from $742 million in 2022. Rich addresses the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and how this federal law protects the privacy of student education records. From group projects and communications apps to submitting schoolwork and Greek life, we give you a sense of the privacy risks today's college students face while pursuing their education. Links Referenced: https://twitter.com/mysudoapp/status/1554894893125980161?s=46&t=mZ7hpkIc8fcEa7z7a9HKIQ https://mysudo.com/2021/08/college-students-top-10-reasons-to-use-mysudo-this-year/ https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/2/data-privacy-in-higher-education-yes-students-care https://studentprivacycompass.org/resource/higheredvoices2021/ https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/protecting-college-student-data/ https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/09/20/should-college-students-be-able-opt-out-data-sharing https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2023/04/cybersecurity-and-the-future-workforce https://www.unco.edu/college-bound-colorado/digital-privacy-as-a-college-student.aspx https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-08-25-college-s-use-of-exam-proctoring-software-to-scan-rooms-violated-privacy-rights-judge-finds https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2023/02/remote-proctoring-california-colleges/ https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/05/22/2673436/0/en/18-5-CAGR-of-Online-Exam-Proctoring-Market-to-Gain-USD-3-881-0-Million-by-2032-Market-us.html https://mycampusdirector2.com/assets/pdf/privacy.pdf OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

***NOTE: The audio in the first eleven minutes might be a little challenging to listen to, but after that it improves. This was our first episode recorded outside of our Privacy Files studio. Recording remotely does introduce some additional recording challenges. In this episode, we were recording inside a convention center expo hall where we had to contend with a considerable amount of ambient noise from attendees walking the floor. We hope you understand. All in all, in this episode you will hear some insightful feedback from people about their views on privacy, safety and security. Thank you for your support. In this special episode of Privacy Files, we took the podcast on the road to the Salt Palace Convention Center in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah to talk to attendees at the 2023 Utah Bridal & Wedding Expo. The MySudo team took over a booth space for four hours on Saturday, May 20th and helped hundreds of people download the world's only all-in-one privacy app. We handed out lots of gourmet Crumbl cookies to booth visitors and sent them on their way with big smiles. The goal of this podcast episode was to capture the raw feedback of a few expo attendees. What does privacy mean to them? How important is privacy to them? Does "personal privacy" or "personal safety" elicit a stronger response? Do attendees use other privacy tools like a VPN, password manager or private browser? What about the timeless battle between aesthetics and functionality? When it was all said and done, we met some amazing people. Each had a unique story to tell. There were a few surprises along the way as well. Most importantly, we spread the word about data privacy and did our little part to help close the privacy knowledge gap. We hope you get something valuable out of this episode. Please help us in this mission to give people back control over their personal data by telling your friends and family about the Privacy Files podcast. Together we can win this fight. Links Referenced: https://www.bridalshowsut.com/ OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

Globally, there are more than 50 million people creating original content for social media. Make no mistake about it. The influencer industry is huge. In many cases, being an influencer is like being a Hollywood celebrity. Strangers will often recognize influencers in public. But life as a content creator is not all about money and fame. Living life in the public eye comes at the expense of personal privacy. Over the last several years there have been many well-documented incidents of stalkers tracking down content creators, including Kim Kardashian being robbed at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room back in 2016. In this episode of Privacy Files, we dive into the world of content creators and the risks they face as it relates to their personal privacy. To aid in the conversation, an influencer joins us in-studio to discuss her experiences creating content for platforms like TikTok, Pinterest and Instagram. We kick off the episode by covering some news about the concept of "sharenting", the act of parents oversharing pictures, videos and other intimate details of their kids' lives online. Michelle then talks about her efforts to grow as a content creator and the precautions she takes to protect her privacy while still maintaining a public presence. We look at the differences between how Millennials and Gen Z view social media. Then we transition into the topic of performative vulnerability and how content creators feel pressure to open up more and more of their lives to strangers to keep the likes and engagement rolling. Michelle gives us insight into what privacy means to her as a female and how privacy and safety intersect in her world. To close out the episode, Rich and Michelle discuss key tips for influencers to follow to minimize digital exhaust and thus stay private and safe. Links Referenced: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/sharenting-privacy-concerns-1.6779790 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joca.12462 https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/the-us-is-finally-dealing-with-the-exploitation-of-child-influencers/ https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1627&Year=2023&Initiative=false. https://www.collegeofinfluence.com/blog/is-privacy-a-luxury-for-influencers https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a41946590/influencer-content-creation-hurting-mental-health/ https://www.incfile.com/blog/data-privacy-digital-security-for-influencers https://www.incfile.com/blog/data-privacy-digital-security-for-influencers https://security.googleblog.com/2017/11/new-research-understanding-root-cause.html OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

Since 2000, there have been more than two million marriages every year in the United States. In fact, the average cost of a wedding in America is approximately $25,000. But what about the privacy cost? Planning a wedding often involves communicating with ten or more vendors. From photographers and caterers to musicians and cake bakeries, wedding planning requires providing your personal contact information to total strangers. On top of this, attending bridal expos can result in sharing your personal phone number and email address with dozens of vendors as part of the selection process for each facet of your wedding. All of this can expose you to high volumes of spam that could take months, if not years, to fully eliminate. Then there's the risk of your personal data falling into the hands of scammers. Do you really want the entire world knowing every minute detail about your big day? In this special "MySudo Monday" episode of Privacy Files, we examine the wedding planning process and how you can use a privacy app like MySudo to limit your digital exhaust, thus reducing your exposure to spammers and scammers. We kick off the episode by welcoming Nina to the show to discuss her recent wedding and some of the challenges she faced, and still faces to this day, as the result of using her primary email address over the course of an entire year while planning her special day. Sarah then jumps into some fascinating wedding statistics, from the average cost per guest to the states where weddings cost the most. Did you know the average wedding cake costs just under $500? After Rich briefly touches on the not-so-well-known subject of wedding insurance, Sarah dives into the do's and don'ts of wedding websites for ensuring you maintain control over your privacy. From creating a secure wedding website and streaming safely to asking permission before publishing guest photos and deactivating your wedding website when the event is over, there are some simple things you can do to protect yours and others' personal information. We close out the episode by outlining a few examples where MySudo can be used to protect personal data during the wedding planning process. And beyond the privacy angle, MySudo also can be used to conveniently manage key vendors. For instance, you can create separate Sudos, or digital identities, for things like catering, floral arrangements and the wedding reception venue. Rich also plugs MySudo's upcoming appearance at the Bridal Expo in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah on May 20, 2023. Links Referenced: https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-cost-of-wedding https://lovelyweddingskc.com/2021/08/03/cyber-safe-wedding-websites/ https://staysafeonline.org/online-safety-privacy-basics/wedding-planning/ OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com

To learn more about our guest Robert Kerbeck and to buy the book RUSE: https://www.robertkerbeck.com/ To those in the world of corporate espionage, Robert Kerbeck is known as the best corporate spy there ever was. He perfected the art of social engineering, or "rusing" as Robert likes to call it, to gain access to sensitive internal information from some of the largest companies in the world. Robert took "live an interesting life" to the next level. For most, making millions of dollars as a corporate spy would probably be more than enough adventure for a lifetime. But for Robert, that was just one life chapter. As an actor, Robert appeared in well-known 1990s television shows like Melrose Place, ER, Sisters, Star Trek, NYPD Blue and Chicago Hope. He interacted with several celebrities including George Clooney, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Yoko Ono, Kevin Spacey and even O.J. Simpson. Today, Robert is an accomplished author having published two award-winning books, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street and Malibu Burning. In this episode of Privacy Files, we talk to Robert about his journey from actor, to corporate spy, to published author. His journey is a wild one. It's not just a lesson in how to prevent social engineering attacks. It's also a lesson that it's never too late to pivot in one's career. Whether you are in corporate security or are simply someone interested in understanding how sophisticated scams work, this episode will not disappoint. From techniques such as "sense of urgency" to "quid pro quo" to "authority figure," Robert explains the strategies he used to employ to quickly build trust with total strangers--and ultimately acquire what he wanted: valuable corporate intelligence. Today, Robert helps the "other side" as he shares his vast knowledge from his many years spent spying on corporations to educate security teams on what to look for. While his corporate spying days are well in the past, Robert asserts that "rusing" is alive and well. In fact, he believes it might be as strong as ever. OUR SPONSORS: Anonyome Labs - Makers of MySudo and Sudo Platform. Take back control of your personal data. www.anonyome.com MySudo - The world's only all-in-one privacy app. Communicate and transact securely and privately. Talk, text, email, browse, shop and pay, all from one app. Stay private. www.mysudo.com Sudo Platform - The cloud-based platform companies turn to for seamlessly integrating privacy solutions into their software. Easy-to-use SDKs and APIs for building out your own branded customer apps like password managers, virtual cards, private browsing, identity wallets (decentralized identity), and secure, encrypted communications (e.g., encrypted voice, video, email and messaging). www.sudoplatform.com