The rise of high-tech despotism
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322 Episodes
121hr 31min
The rise of high-tech despotism
19:34
Smuggling signals out of Iran
21:41
When morality meets the machine
18:29
AI’s divine intervention
24:15
Dispatches from the Ukrainian front
31:27
Your data, commodified
46:05
Chasing shadows with The Citizen Lab
21:07
Reading North Korea
25:35
Miss Lonelyhearts and the money mules
21:32
Defying Gravity
28:01
Coded music
23:03
The people vs. the cloud
22:47
Gone in 60 hacks
14:32
Move fast and brake things
26:44
The neighborhood patrol
12:28
Watching the watchers
28:22
Can AI fix its own energy problem?
14:22
AI and the secret lives of whales
22:01
Blockchain buzzkill — one miner’s lament.
12:37
Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction
25:39
Cloudy with a chance of Algorithms
12:27
AI and the weather forecast
45:33
Erased: The curious case of UyghurEdit++
17:05
Erased: Silencing a kindergarten
33:45
The ego exploit
14:49
Introducing kill switch
33:05
The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry
15:04
Introducing The Homework Machine
53:54
A former North Korean hacker speaks out
13:25
Knights of Old and a ransomware joust
21:22
Former Deputy DNI Sue Gordon: ‘it is conceivable that the world order has already been broken’
26:16
When big cyberattacks hit small towns
39:03
A new playbook for online extremism
15:14
Violence for the sake of violence
24:13
Gone in 60 hacks
13:59
Move fast and brake things
26:35
The law that couldn’t keep a secret
17:05
Reality Winner writes the next chapter
34:56
A peek inside a data center
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The people vs. the cloud
26:02
The neighborhood patrol
12:22
Watching the watchers
25:36
Evilginx’s good intentions
12:30
The secrets of scam farms
38:09
Internet at the speed of light
11:24
Almost Heaven, no reception
21:54
AI’s giant pool of hype
13:31
Examining AI’s ‘Culpability’
38:14
Cloudy with a chance of algorithms
11:10
Forecast, interrupted
27:46
The GoLaxy Papers: Inside China’s AI persona army
21:56
The scientist we sent away
23:59
Cyber attacks may have us seeing double
14:00
The scam next door
35:40
The veterans who worry Putin
15:05
The internet Putin always wanted
25:15
Can AI fix its own energy problem?
14:10
The price tag of you
29:15
Erased: Saving the Uyghur Internet
13:59
Erased: The disappearance of Ekpar Asat
39:52
Erased: The curious case of UyghurEdit++
16:27
Erased: Silencing a kindergarten
37:05
Who let the Feds out?
13:15
DEF CON’s accidental godfather
23:09
Mic Drop: Age of Consent
14:28
Introducing "Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets"
40:16
Mic Drop: Take two chatbots and call me in the morning
14:46
AI and the secret lives of whales
23:04
Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet
10:52
Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
37:40
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
12:19
Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
11:38
The space debris strikes back
40:41
Mic Drop: Predator mode
13:56
ICE leans on high tech monitoring to make quotas
24:34
Mic Drop: Catching a tempest in a honeypot
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The blockchain that criminals love
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Mic Drop: The ego exploit
14:02
An illusion of control
25:32
Mic Drop: In crypto’s defense
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All the president’s meme coins
20:27
Mic Drop: A former North Korean IT worker speaks
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227 new reasons to worry about North Korea
21:32
Mic Drop: Blockchain buzzkill — one miner’s lament.
12:37
Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction
27:55
Mic Drop: Encrypted-ish: The problems with a Signal knockoff
14:39
DOGE and its handling of federal data
39:23
Mic Drop: America’s soft power in Asia – unplugged
12:57
Radio Free Europe: When the signal fades
25:58
Mic Drop: Gen. Charlie "Tuna" Moore: Cyber Wars Don’t Wait for Consensus
16:21
Volt Typhoon comes for Littleton
24:29
Mic Drop: The Hackalorian: A careful student strikes back
11:30
A young hacker, and the Life of PII
30:06
Mic Drop: Former Deputy DNI Sue Gordon: ‘it is conceivable that the world order has already been broken’
25:18
USDS insider says DOGE’s audits are like nothing she’s ever seen
25:25
Mic Drop: AI’s unexpected Roman holiday
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AI’s divine intervention
24:45
Mic Drop: Nakasone on Vanderbilt's future of war summit
14:25
Exclusive: Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest threat
36:50
Mic Drop: Jon Clay: Minority Report meets cyber… pre-cogs sold separately
15:14
The Zelensky playbook: Ukrainian lessons for Taiwan
26:12
Mic Drop: Kelly Shaw’s job got hacked – by DOGE
13:23
Is Trump making the US more cyber vulnerable?
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Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the internet
10:12
The TikTok ban, China, and national security
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Mic Drop: Aidan Raney's secret mission.
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Meet the “Kyles” — North Korea’s secret IT warriors
24:18
Mic Drop: Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’
13:58
Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel.’
24:46
Mic Drop: Mark Zaid’s ‘red badge of courage’
11:34
Could AI help ER doctors and medics make better decisions?
27:29
Mic Drop: The man behind a Binance exec’s Nigerian detention
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The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence
27:47
Mic Drop: The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry
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SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘With AIs Wide Open’ from IRL: Online Life is Real Life
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Mic Drop: Tracking a Ghost
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Knights of Old and a ransomware joust
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Mic Drop: Australia’s attempt to keep kids off social media
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Australia takes aim at encrypted apps
29:34
Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.
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Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?
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Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
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Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love
25:52
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
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196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
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195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
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194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
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193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
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192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
22:39
191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT
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190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos
26:50
189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka
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188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen
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187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve
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186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’
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184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
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183. Mic Drop: Moore’s Law now applies to space
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182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
29:43
181. A hacker’s final frontier — Space
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180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’
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179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
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178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race
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177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships
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176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?
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175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco’s unusual anti-scamming campaign
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174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe
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173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
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172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.
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171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI’s introduction into the simple police report, isn’t that simple.
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170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?
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169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia’s cautionary tale
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168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence
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167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court
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166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
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165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring
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164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang
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163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet
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162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban
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161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?
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160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story
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159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream
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158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun
27:41
157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
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156. Something different: a hacker redemption story
33:48
155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality
11:28
154. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…
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153. Mic Drop: CrowdStrike and the importance of kernels
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152. The curious case of Tigran Gambaryan -- a renowned cryptocurrency investigator and Binance employee now on trial in Nigeria
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151. Mic Drop: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
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150. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Hack' from An Arm and a Leg
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149. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
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148. They’re just hackers, living off the land
19:12
147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
10:02
146. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Modi's India' from Understood
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145. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the Jaguar in Costa Rica?
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144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
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143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
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142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
26:45
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
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140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
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139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
08:23
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
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137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
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136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
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135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
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134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
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133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
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132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
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131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
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130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
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129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
09:45
128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
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127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
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126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast
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125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
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124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
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123. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
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122. The UK-US unmasked a giant Chinese cyber operation but forgot one thing: to tell many of its victims
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121. Mic Drop: A unusual peek inside a North Korean malware lab
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120. North Korea’s ScarCruft gang is behind some very crafty phishin’ campaigns
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119. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the jaguar in Costa Rica?
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118. AI and the Holy Grail of conservation: Real-time monitoring
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117. Mic Drop: The Big Chill: Nigeria, Binance battle likely to add to economic crisis
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116. Detained execs, a bold escape, and tax evasion charges: Nigeria takes aim at Binance
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115. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
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114. Exclusive: LockBit ransomware leader says, ‘I felt like I was being hunted’ but they ‘can’t stop me’
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113. Mic Drop: Exclusive: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
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112. Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire
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111. Mic Drop: Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis on North Korea’s new BFF in Moscow
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110. North Korean Missiles in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un’s new swagger
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109. Mic Drop: FBI Director Wray on the latest wave of nation-state cyber threats
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108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace
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107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust
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106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?
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105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
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104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
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103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might
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102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets
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101. Bug bounties with Chinese characteristics
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100. The 2023 cyber year in review
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99. Meet the hackers
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98. Lessons from the world's first hybrid war
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97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
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96. The art of decoding dictators
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95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash
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94. They’re just hackers, living off the land
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93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime
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92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see
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91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.
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90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
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89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks
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88. Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories
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87. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation’ from Humans vs. Machines
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86. What will Moscow do with the Wagner Group now?
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85. What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
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84. Dutch police, cyber booby traps and a dark market takedown for the ages
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83. “Ding-dong ditch” on steroids
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82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug
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81. Ilya Sachkov v. the Kremlin
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80. Meet ChatGPT’s evil twin
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79. One woman’s Orwellian experience with disinformation
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78. Trouble in the cloud
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77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
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76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
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75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
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74. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
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73. Can satellite surveillance save Sudan from itself?
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72. Exclusive: Inside an American Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine
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71. A return to model drone pilots and Ukraine’s spring offensive
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70. An unlikely teacher: What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
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69. Wazawaka: ‘Most Wanted’ and, he says, undeterred
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68. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Slave Armies Powering a New Kind of Golden Triangle Cybercrime' from The Underworld Podcast
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67. Hive’s WeWork experiment — and what went wrong
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66. ‘Operation Cookie Monster' and the Genesis takedown
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65. Morality in Iraq: You should worry because there’s an app for that
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64. Portrait of Bassterlord as a young man
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63. Tracers on the stage: Andy Greenberg, Michael Gronager and Tigran Gambaryan talk cryptocurrency tracking
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62. How a mathematician and an entrepreneur helped law enforcement take a bite out of crypto crime
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61. Snowmen in the park and Iran’s quiet viral dissent
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60. Clear the runway: Ukraine's model pilots
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59. What the cyber war in Ukraine is teaching us
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58. Enemy of the State (Part 2) : ¿Quién es Guacamaya? (Who is Guacamaya?)
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57. Enemy of the State (Part 1): Mexico, spyware, and a secret military intelligence unit
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56. Ukraine’s drone whisperers: What the weapons are telling us
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55. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: Twenty-six words get their day in the High Court
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54. Miss Lonelyhearts and the money mules
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53. Xi's brave new world
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52. SPECIAL FEATURE: Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware
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51. Exclusive: Axon still wants to put Taser drones in your kid’s school
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50. LockBit Diaries: A researcher's year undercover with the world’s most dangerous ransomware gang
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49. Genshin Impact: trying to balance mass appeal with Beijing's blessing
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48. Call me crypto curious
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47. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Summer in Caputh’ from Exile
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46. The musicians who came in from the cold
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45. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Saving Ukrainian Cultural History Online’ from The Last Archive
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44. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
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43. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ from Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince
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42. North Korea's monster fake out
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41. Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine
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40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
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39. Is open-source software the solution to our election woes?
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38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
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37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
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36. The hijab will never be the same
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35. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
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34. Ukraine’s mass graves have stories to tell
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33. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
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32. The great tractor jailbreak
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31. Seagulls in the park
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30. The scariest piece of malware since Stuxnet
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29. The musicians who came in from the cold
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28. A return to Stanislav
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27. Exclusive: North Korea’s monster fake out
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26. Pegasus is listening
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25. Lapsus$ - The script kiddies are alright
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24. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment’ from Nothing is Foreign
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23. The post-Roe digital world
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22. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘NSO’ from Darknet Diaries
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21. Son of Conti
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20. North Korea’s cryptocurrency obsession
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19. Gilman Louie and the dance with wolf warriors
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18. The dog-eat-dragon world of Chinese gaming
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17. REvil and the Texas hack that changed ransomware as we know it
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16. Roe v. Wade in a world of digital dust
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15. At war with facial recognition: Clearview AI in Ukraine
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14. ‘Cream of the cream’: Russia’s high-tech brain drain
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13. Spyware and ‘a world of Bond villains’
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12. Lapsus$: The script kiddies are alright
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11. The entrepreneur and the Jihadist
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10. Are America’s nuclear systems so old they’re un-hackable?
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9. The rise of high-tech despotism
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8. War, sanctions and crypto’s big moment
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7. Fighting Russia with computers, not rifles
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6. 'Baggage from a severely harmed relationship'
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5. Conti leaks: the Panama Papers of ransomware
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4. 'They are fighting like lions'
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3. In touch with reality
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2. A place called darkode
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