Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie

Smashing Security

Graham Cluley

Technology, News, Tech News

4.7 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin - signing his extortion emails from a company called "Loot."

Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the UK's nuclear submarine base at Faslane and politely ask if they can have a look around. Tourists? Spies? Something in between?

Plus: Female Muslim punk rock group, and a little red book that might save your sanity in a post-truth world.

All this and more in episode 460 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Jenny Radcliffe.

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0:00.0	It was so fascinating because you were looking up here when you think,
0:06.6	how can they, how can they be earning that much?
0:10.3	And there's two people doing the same job, but vastly different salaries,
0:13.7	and one of them may be much better than the other in your point of view.
0:16.6	Can I hazard a guess, Graham, was the one not being paid as much by any chance a woman?
0:21.3	I'm just wondering, wild stabbing the dog.
0:31.3	Smashing Security, Episode 460, Never Knock on the Door of a Nuclear Submarine Base and Asked for a Selfie, with Graham
0:39.7	Cluley and special guest Jenny Radcliffe.
0:42.4	Hello, hello, and welcome to Smashing Security episode 460.
0:45.7	My name's Graham Cluelly.
0:47.3	And I'm Jenny Radcliffe.
0:49.3	Jenny, welcome back to the show.
0:50.7	Always a delight to have you.
0:52.4	Now, you're normally in your executive podcast penthouse
0:56.8	suite, aren't you? But you're at a different location today. I am. I had to travel at the last minute,
1:02.1	Graeme. So apologies if there's a little bit of background noise that there wouldn't normally be.
1:06.3	Well, such is the life of a human hacker, I suppose, always on a mission.
1:12.2	That is what you do, though, isn't it?
1:14.0	You are about the social engineering, you are about breaking into buildings, less so with
1:19.4	sledgehammers and JCPs and more of your brain.
1:23.9	Well, it's been known.
1:26.1	Yes, more and more about assessing physical infiltration and
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