The DARPA Data Hacker Who Exposed Delta Force & Tim Cook's Lies | Mike Yeagley

The DARPA Data Hacker Who Exposed Delta Force & Tim Cook's Lies | Mike Yeagley

September 6, 2026 · 1h 5m

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Mike Yeagley discusses the implications of data privacy and surveillance in relation to national security and advertising intelligence.

FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/UIB2T0g8wpE Subscribe Here: ⁨@JulianDoreyDaily⁩ Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT Watch the FULL EPISODE here: [INSERT LINK] Mike Yeagley is a data strategist defense contractor and one of the early architects of ADINT — Advertising Intelligence. He is known for showing US intelligence how ad-tech location data — the same data used for marketing and mobile tracking — could expose troop movements covert facilities and even Vladimir Putin's entourage. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying the world's location data and showing what could be done with it. He sits down with Julian Dorey for the most technically specific and most personally alarming conversation about data privacy surveillance and national security this podcast has produced — covering phone data cookies and Ad IDs what Tim Cook's privacy claims actually mean in practice the Delta Force covert operation that was exposed by commercially available location data the $600K data purchase that changed how the US government thinks about ADINT tactical data and OpSec the privacy norm problem…

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Host: Julian Dorey

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Organizations: Delta Force, Tim Cook, ADINT, US intelligence

Places: Switzerland, Beijing

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