Chapters
00:00 Welcome to Cyber Crime Junkies: Meet CEO Mike Acerra and Dr. Sergio Sanchez
02:30 LuxBlocks and Structural Thinking: Why Kids Are the Best Technology
05:00 Wisdom vs Intelligence: What Schools Get Wrong About Learning
07:30 How Entrepreneurs Really Learn: No MBA, No Business Plan, No Problem
10:00 AI-Assisted Hacking: Ethiopia Cybercriminal Breaches 14 US Companies
12:30 One Guy, No Coding Skills, and Claude: How AI Lowered the Bar for Cybercrime
15:00 When AI Refuses to Help Criminals: Claude's Ethics vs Jailbreakable Models
17:30 Court of Rivals: How Smart People Use Multiple AI Tools to Find Truth
20:00 The Frightening Truth About Script Kiddie Hackers and Small Business Risk
22:30 From Targeted Hackers to Mass Phishing: How AI Changed the Attack Surface
25:00 AI Tokens, Employee Monitoring, and Amazon's Productivity Dashboard
27:30 Token Waste and Optimization: The Real Cost of Bad AI Prompting
29:30 Pro Tip: Convert PDFs to Markdown to Save AI Tokens and Money
32:00 Meta Surveillance Culture: Tracking Every Mouse Click Your Employees Make
34:30 Facebook Clone Scams and Identity Theft: How Profile Cloning Actually Works
36:30 Blockchain, Fungible Money, and Why Tracking Every Dollar Terrifies the Powerful
39:30 Bitcoin, Monero, and Ransomware Gangs: Following the Crypto Trail
42:00 How Banks Inflate the Economy by Lending Money That They Do Not Have
Hosted by David Dean Mauro — experienced former trial lawyer, AI Security Advisor, FBI InfraGard member, VP of NetGain Technologies and Author, Moving Target Trilogy Book Series (#1 Amazon Hot New Release 2026).
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