The Social-Engineer Podcast

Whitney Merrill is a privacy attorney, worked with the EFF and runs the Crypto and runs the Crypto Privacy Village at DEF CON. (See a pattern yet?) This month we have a very fun and lighthearted chat with Whitney about things like: Is it possible to remain private today? Is it possible to be safe and date online? How dangerous is OSINT? And so much more

Join us with our guest Clint Watts as we ask questions about: Misinformation campaigns and their success. How is misinformation used? Why is it so powerful? How can we be safe from falling victim? So much more Clint can be followed on his Twitter Account @selectedwisdom  and on https://www.fpri.org/contributor/clint-watts/

Joe Navarro immigrated to American not knowing any English. How did this mold and shape him to become one of the most well known FBI agents and now one of the world's leading expert's in body language? Join us in this discussion to find out: Why did he write this book? We will see more of him before another 8 years? How has nonverbal reading changed his life? Can you really learn these skills? Did Cat's youth really make her doubt Joe's stories? And so much more....

Did you know that Walmart sells smoothies? Well we didn't either (and we still don't think they do), but this smooth talking Brit will have all of you driving to your local walmart ordering a Crypto AI Blockchain smoothie from Walmart before you are done listening. Nick Furneaux, lord of all OSINT and new author about crypto currency sheds light on exactly how crypto and social engineering collide. This is one podcast you will certainly enjoy, whilst laughing all the way to smoothie land.

So many times we get asked how can you become a professional social engineer. This month we talk to two amazing women who where never in the industry, took a huge risk and it paid off. These two wonderful personify doing things ethically, honestly and with empathy. They are an amazing example to our community and we had a great opportunity to talk.

I sense there is something important in your life? Something that you will be listening to shortly that will change the way you view... everything. Ian Rowland is a renowned expert into cold reading. In his book, "The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading", Ian explains exactly how cold reading works. Despite being told exactly how this trickery works, notice how he still reads Cat during our podcast.

It might not come as a shock to you that we here at SEORG love Neil Fallon and Clutch. Having Neil out at DEF CON was an amazing experience.  After 4 long days at DEF CON we hosted our annual live podcast for Episode 108. Join us as: Neil fixes Chris' technical issues. We discuss ways to improve the SEVillage We talk about professional SE work  and we suffer through our final sleep deprived moments in Vegas.... You can follow Neil on Twitter at: @npfallon

Paolo Gaudiano has more than 25 years of interdisciplinary research, teaching, entrepreneurship, consulting, public speaking and writing experience. He recently embarked on a mission to use everything he has learned to revolutionize the way people think about Diversity & Inclusion, and what they do about it.  Today we discuss: What are biases How are they used? Are they positive or negative? How can a social engineer use biases?

Join us as we have a fascinating conversation with Amy Herman about: Biases - are they useful? How can we recognize biases and they use them? What does it mean to be the dog? What does it mean to be the wolf? Can you ride a dolphin, wolf hybrid through the ocean? so much more... Amy can be found on her website: www.visualintelligencebook.com or on Twitter at @AmyHermanAOP

Jordan Harbinger, formally from the Art of Charm, now hosts a new show called - The Jordan Harbinger Show. As a long time friend of the SEPodcast we wanted to discuss how Jordan restarted his life after parting ways with AOC. Instead our conversation took a very interesting turn and we discussed some fascinating topics: How does who you know affect your abilities to advance? How do you keep and maintain useful relationships? Does what you know really add value? So much more...

How important is fitting into a tribe? Can you create a new tribe? If you do, will you be all alone? This month's guest, the fascinating Dov Baron, explores these questions and more. You can find Dov on his website at: http://FullMontyLeadership.com You can buy his book, Fiercely Loyal on Amazon

Michael Bazzell spent 18 years as a government computer crime investigator. During the majority of that time, he was assigned to the FBI's Cyber Crimes Task Force where he focused on open source intelligence, hacking cases, and personal data removal methods. This month Michael talks about: Some actionable OSINT tips you can use now! His new book that you must read Tips on parenting, that we doubt you will want to follow His VM operating system

JJ Green just wants to share the story. With over 25 years of journalistic travel into 51 countries he has witnessed conflicts, disasters and political struggles that have shaped our world today. Join the Panel this month of: humanhacker, hackingdave, vlkyri, catmurd0ck as we talk about this and a whole lot more. You can follow JJ at @jgreenwtop or @natsec09 JJ recommends a book that is right up our alley: American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent by Tamer Elnoury

Eric TaylorEric Taylor, aka CosmoTheGod, formerly of UGNazi has been caught arrested and now reforming his past ways turn his skills to the good. Join us as we talk to Eric about: How did you stop the Kansas City Swatter? How did you get into hacking and social engineering? How did you reform? What are you going to do to stay on the side of right? What are you going to do now? You can find Eric on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/CosmoTheGod

Lucky Yates is an actor and writer, known for Archer (2009), The American Shame (2001) and American Dirtbags (2015). Lucky is a hilarious guest that entertained us and we got to discuss some really interesting topics: What is a war ape and a sky robot? How do you act when you can't see your co-actors? Are nonverbals still important? Is Dave a Jerk? How does Lucky feel about Bruce Hornsby? Come and laugh with us on this very special podcast - Our 100th episode!