The RSnake Show

James Flom and RSnake dig into the history of ha.ckers.org, SecTheory, and the incredible amount of attacks sustained. James and RSnake dig into some stories about how hackers tried to hack ha.ckers.org (big surprise), how the ISPs got involved and many other crazy stories. RSnake and James further discuss FOIA requests, Carnivore boxes, and being infiltrated by spies. They also talk about what it...

Shot on location at the Bio-Hotel Jono Alderson and RSnake discuss SEO, SEM and how search engines have evolved over the last few decades. RSnake and Jono discussed the Google anti-trust lawsuits, Google's controversial AMP project, negative SEO as well as how difficult it has become to avoid Google entirely.

RSnake covers Elijah's background in Hollywood, how he got into building experiences for companies, Google's actual business model, cost effective marketing campaigns as well as some of the shenanigans that lead to sharable content.  Elijah and RSnake also got into some of the issues around outrage campaigns and how marketing can be used to fuel the dark side of capitalism. Errata: Elijah brought...

For the inaugural episode of Season 3, RSnake sits down with Frank Artes. Frank is a former police officer, and a cyber security expert, and they dive right into several hot button controversies, including police morale post George Floyd, gun confiscation, police brutality, police standards post Uvalde, and police corruption. Frank and RSnake also spend time talking about the Russian invasion of U...

Alex and RSnake discuss the Blackhat security conference, RSnake's interactions with hacking the Pentagon, how the press gets the military wrong, balkanization of the Internet and much more. Alex also discusses the issues around hiring talent in the military and how Alex deals with the stresses of a family life on top of keeping the nation safe.

Whurley and RSnake talk about the perils of entrepreneurship, how Whurley thinks about venture capital and fundraising, startup mindset, startup misconceptions, startup mentorships and the recent valuation crash. They also discuss Whurley's startup focused on quantum computing and dive into topics about quantum cryptanalysis, quantum communication and how it can all be weaponized.

John Robison and RSnake discuss how John grew up gay in Texas, the intolerance towards right wing views in Hollywood, how John reconciles being right wing with being gay, some of the shady characters that got caught up in the #metoo movement and how being gay has changed in John's lifetime. They also dig into John's relationship with Trump, how Trump won against Hillary, lost against Biden, and th...

RSnake and Matt Mackowiak talked about Austin's Prop B and Save Austin Now, how homelessness impacts crime, business, pollution, and property value. They discuss the issues that police face when dealing with the homeless. They talk about deinstitutionalization, the dropping prices of drugs like heroine, crack, meth, fentanyl as well as designer drugs like krokodil, flakka and K2.   They discuss co...

Russ Bodnyk and RSnake dove into how Russ sees AI, machine learning and artificial general intelligence. They also talk about the ethics and dangers of an AI that passes the Turing test, even if it isn't actually intelligent. Russ made some predictions around the future of self driving cars, the future of work, and they tackle some challenges with AI driven warfare. RSnake also issues a deepfake c...

RSnake and Kinnan Golemon discuss Kinnan's background in lobbying for oil and gas, fracking, renewable energy sources, a move to electrical vehicles, nuclear power, and OPEC's role.   They also discuss the changing political landscape in Texas, the US and the larger geopolitical landscape around energy writ large.

RSnake and Jeremiah Grossman discuss the state of Information Security, how the industry seems to be allergic to change, how Jeremiah innovates in such a complex ecosystem, and where he sees things moving for security in the future.

RSnake and Kelsey Kosmala of the Tantra Institute dive into a discussion around trauma, domestic abuse including sexual abuse, financial abuse and other variants of malicious control. They also talk about generational trauma and how it might even effect the minds of world leaders.  They round out the discussion talking about yoga and tantra, and how these things are all interconnected.

RSnake sat down with Karim Hijazi: a serial entrepreneur, and a professional photographer by training, but most relevant to today's show he's also a security expert. RSnake and Karim dive into his background in industrial espionage, explored the world of malware, and landed on a lot of the biggest issues with keeping people and companies safe online. If you're not familiar with this world, it may...

RSnake sat down with Josh Castell, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who is deeply concerned with a number of social issues that we explore. They discuss the current state of the advertising industry, and then delve into the timely topic of gun control in the wake of the Ulvalde school shooting. Finally they round out our conversation with a discussion about human trafficking.

For the premier episode of Season 2 RSnake's guests are Penn Parrish and Detective Joe Scaramucci of the McLennan County Sheriff's office. This is a sobering look into the world of child sexual abuse, human trafficking, sexual slavery, vigilantes, how the law is failing victims, how big tech plays a role and more.

RSnake takes on some meaty topics such as anarcho-capitalism, UBI, Keynesian vs Austrian economics, and the future of social media with Morgan Warstler. RSnake also explored some of Morgan's ideas around stopping Communist Party aggression, economic pressure points that Texas could leverage to exert it's dominance on the world stage as well as how Morgan pitched specific interpretations of the con...

RSnake discusses augmented reality and virtual reality with Alex and Tim Porter of Mod Tech Labs. The conversation includes technical issues with XR including user level issues such as superrealism. We also discussed some of more positive and encouraging use cases for AR/VR.

RSnake has a candid discussion with Andy, Chris and Dustin around how bills actually get written and passed, how they aim for bi-partisan support, the unintended consequences of bad legislation, the commerce clause of the US constitution, political action committees and more. Errata: RSnake said "Yams" but meant "Cucumbers", and he said "Harvard" and meant "Stanford" - whoops!

Charlie and RSnake discuss the distinction between AI/ML and AGI, the future of work, the weaponization of drones, attacking AI through bad seed-data, faster paths of bringing forth AGI, as well as the future of deepfakes.

Grant Shaw sits down with RSnake to discuss the pending ATF legislation against his company, the second amendment, Hollywood's involvement in the epidemic of gun violence, mass shootings and much more.

Chris Debiec and RSnake sit down on location at SXSW to discuss media, Hollywood, gun handling issues, tax incentives and more.

Dr. Leon Vanstone discusses space, hypersonic vehicles, rail guns, and space exploration. RSnake and Leon also talk about equitable math and how science evolves.

Dr. Sheila Newsom MD discusses her transition in her 60s as well as topical issues in the transgender community and her boutique ketamine service. 

RSnake and Jennifer spend the focus of the episode discussing the people's republic of China, the Uyghurs, Hong Kong, Taipei. Jennifer and RSnake also dive into the hacking of Stratfor by Anonymous and some of the back-story.

RSnake and Raymond discuss the topic of censorship and some of the lessons learned from social media mishaps. Raymond also discusses how ibble will be shaped by the policy failures of other companies, like Facebook and Twitter.