PJ Vogt
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And what does it mean to be the Chief Information Security Officer?
Alex grew up in the 90s doing all sorts of youthful computer crimes. But as an adult, his life flipped. Now, companies hire him to legitimately test or protect their security. He ran security for Yahoo. After that, he ran security at Facebook, actually during the height of Russian hacker paranoia. Very big jobs. He may have been overqualified for the case of the Dave & Buster's anomaly.
Alex grew up in the 90s doing all sorts of youthful computer crimes. But as an adult, his life flipped. Now, companies hire him to legitimately test or protect their security. He ran security for Yahoo. After that, he ran security at Facebook, actually during the height of Russian hacker paranoia. Very big jobs. He may have been overqualified for the case of the Dave & Buster's anomaly.
Alex grew up in the 90s doing all sorts of youthful computer crimes. But as an adult, his life flipped. Now, companies hire him to legitimately test or protect their security. He ran security for Yahoo. After that, he ran security at Facebook, actually during the height of Russian hacker paranoia. Very big jobs. He may have been overqualified for the case of the Dave & Buster's anomaly.
In fact, when I told a journalist friend I'd reached out to the Alex Stamos, his face made this wobbly expression before he said, you asked Alex Stamos about the Dave & Buster's thing? So I reached out to you because I'm trying to answer this question. And I just want to say, like, before I explain the question, I understand there's a lot going on in the world right now.
In fact, when I told a journalist friend I'd reached out to the Alex Stamos, his face made this wobbly expression before he said, you asked Alex Stamos about the Dave & Buster's thing? So I reached out to you because I'm trying to answer this question. And I just want to say, like, before I explain the question, I understand there's a lot going on in the world right now.
In fact, when I told a journalist friend I'd reached out to the Alex Stamos, his face made this wobbly expression before he said, you asked Alex Stamos about the Dave & Buster's thing? So I reached out to you because I'm trying to answer this question. And I just want to say, like, before I explain the question, I understand there's a lot going on in the world right now.
If you were to rank every single problem afflicting the world in order of importance, there's a good chance this one would go last.
If you were to rank every single problem afflicting the world in order of importance, there's a good chance this one would go last.
If you were to rank every single problem afflicting the world in order of importance, there's a good chance this one would go last.
There's so many podcasts about the top 100.
There's so many podcasts about the top 100.
There's so many podcasts about the top 100.
Yeah, yeah. Let me do it. Let me do it. I'm going to try to send you a memo. For the last time, I spoke the magic words into my phone. I hit send.
Yeah, yeah. Let me do it. Let me do it. I'm going to try to send you a memo. For the last time, I spoke the magic words into my phone. I hit send.
Yeah, yeah. Let me do it. Let me do it. I'm going to try to send you a memo. For the last time, I spoke the magic words into my phone. I hit send.
So I told Alex about the film editor Andy's discovery around the ampersand. It's funny, I should tell you, one of the people that I've said this, he found that if he said Dave and Buster slowly enough, he said, like, Dave and Buster's, in that circumstance, the message seemed to send.
So I told Alex about the film editor Andy's discovery around the ampersand. It's funny, I should tell you, one of the people that I've said this, he found that if he said Dave and Buster slowly enough, he said, like, Dave and Buster's, in that circumstance, the message seemed to send.
So I told Alex about the film editor Andy's discovery around the ampersand. It's funny, I should tell you, one of the people that I've said this, he found that if he said Dave and Buster slowly enough, he said, like, Dave and Buster's, in that circumstance, the message seemed to send.
Alex started to dissect what might be happening behind the scenes with the audio message and the troublesome ampersand. And his explanation pointed to an additional culprit that never would have crossed my mind. That culprit? AI. It turns out AI is part of the process involved in sending an audio message.