#746 FireSide. Chat w/ Douglas Kaluhiokalani & The Crew; 8 Oct 2026

🔥 #746 FireSide Chat w/ Douglas Kaluhiokalani & The Crew

8 October 2026 | The Lost Art Project: Veterans’ Voices

How safe are you in today's digital world? And how much information about you is already available to someone who wants to use it against you?

In this episode of FireSide Chat, host Andrew “AJ” Cox and the crew welcome Douglas Kaluhiokalani, a United States Air Force veteran and cybersecurity professional with approximately 17 years of experience, for an eye-opening conversation about cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital warfare, online scams, and the threats hiding in everyday technology.

Douglas shares his journey from being a young computer enthusiast to serving in Air Force special operations and eventually working in defensive and offensive cybersecurity. Drawing on his experience supporting cybersecurity exercises involving Army Cyber Command and NATO, he explains how modern warfare has evolved far beyond traditional weapons and battlefields.

The conversation explores how military communications, satellite technology, digital footprints, and artificial intelligence are changing the way military operations are conducted. The crew discusses how quickly technology advances, the difficulties of keeping military systems current, and the risks that arise when organizations depend on technology they don't fully understand.

But the discussion doesn't stop with national security.

Douglas brings cybersecurity down to a personal level, explaining how easily criminals can gather publicly available information, create convincing phishing emails, impersonate trusted individuals, and use artificial intelligence to make scams increasingly believable.

From compromised social media accounts and identity theft to outdated routers, smart televisions, weak passwords, and suspicious text messages, the crew explores the vulnerabilities that ordinary people encounter every day.

One particularly interesting discussion centers on how artificial intelligence can collect publicly available information about someone and help identify the types of scams that person might be most likely to believe. It's a powerful reminder that the information we share online can sometimes be used against us.

Throughout the conversation, AJ, Mike, Jess, and Douglas mix serious discussions with the humor, military stories, and good-natured trash talking that make FireSide Chat what it is. There are plenty of laughs about outdated military computers, Marines breaking equipment