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In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, who began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly steal financial data from consumers.

This podcast tells my (true) story of how I managed to cheat death 3 different times within the past 5 years in Belize. I share how I should've been eaten by jaguars in the middle of the jungle, flipped a car in the middle of nowhere and even managed to stop my ex-best friend from a murder attempt in my own bedroom. I cover everything from living abroad, shamans, black-and-white magic, mindfulness, religious beliefs, neuroscience and philosophy. All of these things helped me cheat death and maybe it'll help you do the same.

In 2015, Kamala Harris, then the Attorney General of California, filed second-degree murder charges against Jerrod Menz, the president of an accredited in-patient drug treatment center. Five years earlier, a client died only hours after being admitted to a company facility. The local coroner ruled the untimely death occurred from natural causes. However, a spiteful local competitor found an ally in an employee of a San Francisco area hedge fund shorting the company's publicly traded stock. Were the major players misusing inside information to profit from the stock's rapid decline? Did Kamala ...