The Bid Picture with Bidemi Ologunde

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde traced the tech and cyber forces reshaping everyday life in the United States: why Washington, DC builds more affordable housing per capita than Texas and California; how OnlyFans, online betting, and sober-curious culture are rerouting tourists from Las Vegas and theme-parks; and why zero-income-tax states in the U.S. (Alaska, Wyoming, South Dakota, and New Hampshire) don't have big cities. He connects the dots with clear risks, opportunities, and pragmatic policy ideas communities can use now.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Rebecca ‘Becky’ Passmore—a former FBI Senior Forensic Examiner, Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the co-founder of Root Forensics, and co-host (with Stacy Eldridge) of Parsing the Truth: One Byte at a Time. The conversation explored the human side of digital forensics, lessons from more than two decades with the FBI, practical advice for newcomers to the field of digital forensics, and more.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Lynn Fairweather, Founder and President of Presage Consulting & Training, a boutique threat assessment and management firm focused solely on domestic violence.  The hour-long conversation traced her frontline beginnings to building corporate programs, unpacking “leakage,” pre-incident indicators, the red flags that indicate abusers as employees, and more. Lynn explains how domestic abuse becomes insider risk—through stalking and trackers, social-media hijacking, and corporate device tampering—and offers practical workplace safety planning tips across policy, training, and case consults. The conversation closes with metrics that matter and emerging tech-enabled abuse trends employers must prepare for.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde provided a clear-eyed compare/contrast of Meta and ByteDance through a U.S. national-security lens. He mapped shared engines—algorithmic ads, creator commerce, and hyperscale AI—against divergent governance and accountability. Using counterintelligence (CI) and foreign malign influence (FMI) frameworks, he examined data-access risk, influence operations (IO), moderation incentives, and legal exposure (e.g., Chinese intelligence law vs. market/regulatory checks). He touched on how ODNI threat assessments, NSA/CISA cyber posture, and CIA analysis inform policy levers—data-security baselines, transparency, and threat-intel sharing—aimed at hardening platforms without closing the open internet.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!Across Apple’s wearables, GLP-1 drugs, academia’s AI pivot, IP fights, new crime patterns, and the dating-app slump, there is one through-line: resilient trust. In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde maps how innovation and human values can move in step—arguing for stronger privacy rules (especially for biometrics), smarter AI oversight (think “FDA for algorithms”), real digital literacy, and business models that earn a social license to operate. It’s a playbook for policymakers, tech leaders, academics, and the rest of us to design for well-being, not just engagement—so our tools save lives, our institutions keep credibility, and our relationships (online or offline) stay authentic.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Matt Topper, president of UberEther and a 20+ year veteran of cybersecurity and identity/access management. Matt broke down zero trust without the buzzwords, explained how people-first IAM unlocks business growth, and shared hard-won lessons from public-sector environments. They dug into private-tenant vs. multi-tenant tradeoffs, FedRAMP/DoD realities, moving from PIV-D to phishing-resistant MFA, and the metrics executives should actually track.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presented six stories about secrecy versus privacy.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed recent advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns targeting banks and law firms involved in mergers and acquisitions.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Melinda Nevala, a digital privacy advocate and the Marketing Director at Medcurity. The conversation touched on America’s patchwork of state privacy laws, spotlighting loopholes big tech quietly lobbied for, AI’s still-unplugged data vacuum, and the dark-pattern consent pop-ups driving us all to button-click fatigue—plus practical tips to fight back.Support the show

Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed the company Palantir Technologies, an American publicly traded company specializing in software platforms for data mining. The analysis focused on the enabling conditions that predate its founding, the company’s growth across historical and societal contexts, its financial trajectory and political entrenchment, controversies around privacy and surveillance, as well as compelling background details for a general audience.Support the show