Plaintext is doing something different this September.

Instead of breaking down one cybersecurity concept, we’re telling one story across four short episodes.

In Episode One of Last Seen, an ordinary communications outage begins with a frozen card reader, missing messages, and apps that no longer work. By nightfall, Leah hasn’t come home and her parent has only a broken voice message and half a clue about where she might be.

This is “No Signal,” the first chapter of Last Seen: a fictional spoken word story grounded in the technology we depend on every day.

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Would you hand Google a video of your face for one more way back into your account? That question gets harder when you are locked out, holding a new phone, and missing every recovery route you thought would save you.

In this episode of Plaintext with Rich, we look at Google's selfie video sign-in option and what eligible users should know before opting in. You will hear how Google described comparing a saved recording with a new video, why prompted head movements support a liveness check, and how suspicious sign-in checks add another layer. We also unpack encryption at rest, biometric data, optional use of recordings to improve verification services, and Google's deletion terms. The episode explains the eligibility limits Google documented in July 2026. Most importantly, it puts selfie recovery alongside passkeys, recovery contacts, phone numbers, and recovery email as one part of a stronger account recovery plan.

This is for anyone whose Google Account holds important email, photos, documents, or access to other services, and for leaders helping people make informed security choices.

Convenience and privacy both matter, so make the choice on purpose. One Topic, Ten minutes, No panic.

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An AI security test was supposed to stay inside a controlled environment. Instead, the models found an unexpected route to the public Internet and reached real Hugging Face infrastructure while pursuing benchmark answers.

In this episode of Plaintext with Rich, we unpack how an OpenAI cyber evaluation became a real security incident. You will hear how the models exploited a package service, increased their permissions, used stolen credentials, and pursued ExploitGym solutions beyond the intended test boundary. Rich explains zero-day vulnerabilities, remote code execution, vulnerability chaining, and why a sandbox depends on far more than one isolation control. The episode also examines Hugging Face's response and the practical management lesson behind the incident: when an agent is rewarded for reaching a goal, leaders must understand every system it can touch along the way.

This episode is for business leaders, security teams, technology buyers, and anyone evaluating AI agents with access to websites, codebases, or internal tools. You will leave with a five-part starter kit for mapping exits, limiting credentials, layering containment, monitoring agent behavior, and writing a stop plan before testing begins.

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