# The Check Said Fine

> Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

- Episode: S1E11
- Published: 2026-08-18
- HTML: https://www.chiefskepticofficer.online/episodes/s1e11
- Audio: https://content.rss.com/episodes/397658/3076627/chief-skeptic-officer/2026_08_18_09_09_51_334c129c-b679-4f47-b046-1e940ee757d3.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7d2qpG8cs

## Summary

A GitHub Copilot co-author read a Snowflake workflow and called it all-clear. Anyone with an account could open an issue whose title ran as a command and stole a Jira password. It sat open five days. Alex and Jordan also look at a twelve-day-old think tank built for chatbots to quote, Google buying a dead airline's ema

## Show notes

A GitHub Copilot co-author read a Snowflake workflow and called it all-clear. Anyone with an account could open an issue whose title ran as a command and stole a Jira password. It sat open five days. Alex and Jordan also look at a twelve-day-old think tank built for chatbots to quote, Google buying a dead airline's email out of bankruptcy, and an AirTag that followed rare books to an Amazon scan warehouse. The side of tech news nobody talks about. Hosts: Alex & Jordan Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about. Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York Episode date: 2026-08-18 In this episode Copilot / Snowflake — The tools sold as the check signed off. Another company's hunter found it. Hanover Institute — Funding is on the About page. The audience is the chatbot. Spirit / Google — A hundred million work emails, ten million dollars. The people who typed them did not bid. Quick hit — Amazon books — An AirTag went to Las Vegas. Spines come off. The statement never says AI. Links Wiz — Red Agent / Snowflake GitHub Actions HN — Copilot Autofix / Snowflake Jira Responsible Statecraft — Hanover Institute Hanover Institute About (FARA disclosure) Piro — AI Story Optimization HN — Google / Spirit bankruptcy auction Ars Technica — AirTag / Amazon books AI disclosure This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts; their voices and conversation are generated with AI. Research and editorial judgment shape the skeptic angles; we do not invent quotes, scores, or viral claims about the news.

## AI disclosure

This episode was created with artificial intelligence. Alex & Jordan are AI hosts.