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JSOC Data Hacker Exposes Delta Covert Op & Investigates 2017 Vegas Shooting | Mike Yeagley • 343

2025-10-07 Entertainment
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Julian Dorey
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The Data Cartel: Weaponizing Consumer Ad-Tech for National Security

Uncover how everyday mobile data, once used for marketing, has fundamentally reshaped national security, intelligence gathering, and global conflict.

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  • Government agencies exploit massive commercial data streams—location, habits, and connectivity—as a primary intelligence collection method.
  • Operational security (OPSEC) is critically compromised because military and intelligence personnel cannot hide their patterns of life using normal consumer tech.
  • China represents the preeminent global data threat because its legal framework mandates citizens assist intelligence activities upon request.

Data strategist Mike Yeagley details his transition from analyzing marketing data efficiency to revealing critical intelligence gaps by tracking specialized military operators using only mobile phone metadata. This conversation illustrates the thin line between consumer convenience and national security vulnerability, showing how the apparatus built for advertising can be inverted for state advantage.

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SPONSORS: 1) MOOD: Discover your perfect mood and get 20% off your first order at http://mood.com and use code JULAN at check out! 2) RIDGE: Upgrade your wallet today! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code JULIAN at https://www.Ridge.com/julian #ridgepod PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Mike Yeagley is a data strategist, defense contractor, and one of the early architects of ADINT — Advertising Intelligence. He’s known for showing U.S. 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. Yeagley’s work bridges big data, national security, and digital surveillance, redefining how modern governments harvest information in the name of protection — and control. FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 – Intro 00:55 – Phone Data, Cookies, Ad ID, Tim Cook, Tommy G, Julian 10:58 – Public Info, Gov Use, Who is Mike?, Data Analysis, Yemen, Syria 21:41 – Delta Force Covert Op Exposed 30:35 – $600K Data, Privacy, Gov Defense, Beijing App 40:49 – Tactical Data, OpSec, Privacy Norm, Switzerland 50:45 – UnPlugged, Industry Shift, UTS 59:59 – Putin Bodyguards, Alexa, Amazon Ads, Data = Oil 01:07:42 – Human Behavior, Balance, Compliance 01:19:04 – Data for Good, Digital vs Physical, Prove It 01:25:29 – Roenick, Airports, Passports, Khashoggi, Israelis Arabs 01:33:37 – Israeli Intel, Pegasus, China Data Power 01:51:43 – China Apps, Social Media, Isolation, Chaos 01:59:03 – Tariffs, Fentanyl, Bureaucrats, Evil Path 02:08:01 – TikTok, Morality, COVID, Humanity 02:18:09 – Whistleblower, Gov Contract, 2017 Vegas Shooter 02:26:56 – Vegas Shooter Paddock, HVTs, Buried Story 02:39:26 – Gov Shift, Putin, Metadata, Identity 02:52:46 – China, UFWD, Article 7, Balance 03:10:49 – Poindexter, DARPA, Family 03:17:03 – Mike's Work OTHER JDP EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: - Episode 148 - Shawn Ryan: https://youtu.be/ib4atmvMqlk?si=iw3Rc5MUkBhiUpoe - Episode 238 - Taylor Cavanaugh: https://youtu.be/6zsj2CHonQk - Episode 305 - Erik Prince: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o5tlrYEmpQ - Episode 339 - Joe Weil: https://youtu.be/PYcy5ZkLvaw CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef - https://www.instagram.com/joeydeef/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 343 - Mike Yeagley Music by Artlist.io

Top Comments (10)

@JulianDorey 2025-10-07

subscribe so i can buy mike a chinese data center

94 23 replies
@bretandrew7500 2025-10-07

The Vegas Massacre narrative is completely SUS

89 6 replies
@robert48044 2025-10-07

10 years ago people mentioned this but were told they were crazy

46 3 replies
@cher128bx 2025-10-08

The best three hours and eighteen minutes I've ever spent. Please Julian, don't let too much time pass before you have Mike back on your show.,

39 1 replies
@GoForBroke513 2025-10-07

Towards the end of this, China is brought up, but not the tens of thousands of Chinese students in the US devoted to the CCP

37 3 replies
@GbawlZ 2025-10-08

Great guest, you can always tell who has enough lived experiences to fill up a podcast episode and he surely does.

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@jasonlouis5498 2025-10-08

Your privacy is totally cooked. Now it’s gonna start getting weird. Like really weird.

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@gadam2405 2025-10-08

I can’t wait for the next episode with this guy. Great work, Julian.

9 1 replies
@polkadots1776 2025-10-07

I was cracking up in the end when the lightbulb went off about his whereabouts in 2006. Great job!

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@nate5102 2025-10-09

They called us crazy 10 Years ago

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