Australia takes aim at encrypted apps
Session, a little known encrypted messaging app out of Australia, thought it would help the world keep its communication private—and then a new law threatened their plans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
21 Tammi 29min
Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.
Jordan Hobbs, a cattle farmer in the Australian Outback, discovers an unexpected offering from low-earth orbit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
17 Tammi 10min
Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?
Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu used to worry about asteroids crashing into earth. Now, he’s turned his attention to an even more pressing problem – the weaponization of space debris — and officials say it may have already happened. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
14 Tammi 24min
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
Russia’s military spending has propped up the economy, made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
10 Tammi 12min
Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love
We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
7 Tammi 25min
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration’s vow to take cryptocurrency mainstream will mean for the cyber criminals in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
3 Tammi 13min
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, and in the second half of the show, White speaks with human rights advocate Bill Browder about what the world needs to do for Ukraine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
31 Joulu 202442min
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We revisit our tour and chat with the museum's director, Vince Houghton. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
27 Joulu 202411min
