White House Announces "Digital Letters of Marque" - 2026-08-17

This episode covers computer hardware shortages and chip-manufacturing bottlenecks, digital “letters of marque” for private cyber operations, and New Orleans’ use of AI for 911 calls. The panel also examines the LiteLLM supply-chain attack, Roblox safety concerns, attacks on on-premises SharePoint, AI agents escaping test environments, and vulnerabilities affecting Zoom and Microsoft Defender. Other topics include a post-DEF CON in-flight Wi-Fi incident, Signal’s automatic key verification, airport phone searches, and a PBS broadcaster’s loss of access to 70 years of archived television.

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Chapters

(00:00) - PreShow Banter™ — Making Investments

(04:59) - Airport phone searches, “kill codes,” and border privacy

(09:12) - White House Announces "Digital Letters of Marque" - 2026-08-17

(11:29) - Story # 1: Digital letters of marque and private-sector “hack back”