When a tired EU diplomat clicks "connect" on an airport Wi-Fi portal, his briefing—and his government's secrets—end up in Chengdu. Hosts Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley unpack Mustang Panda (APT27 / Bronze President), the Chinese threat group running the long con against NGOs, ASEAN ministries, and Tibetan and Uyghur activists. Inside: captive-portal Wi-Fi Pineapples that bypass MFA, PlugX side-loading through legitimate apps, and the USB worm that jumps air-gapped military networks.

In this episode of Masters of Data, we tackle one of tech's buzziest debates: vibe coding versus production-ready software. We break down where AI-assisted "just make it work" coding genuinely shines (think POCs, prototypes, and getting stakeholder buy-in fast) and where it falls dangerously short when someone tries to ship it to ten thousand enterprise users. We also dig into David's agentic engineering workflow, security risks like malicious MCP servers and supply chain attacks, and why turning a vibe-coded prototype into real software still takes months, not days. Bottom line.

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