Mic Drop: A former North Korean IT worker speaks
For years, North Korea has quietly dispatched an army of IT workers overseas—not to innovate, but to infiltrate. Disguised as freelancers, they apply for jobs, breach systems, and wire stolen funds ba...
30 Touko 202512min
227 new reasons to worry about North Korea
North Korea has built an artificial intelligence research center to supercharge its cyber operations, Unit 227. It’s a move that some experts say has been years in the making — and others say should s...
27 Touko 202521min
Mic Drop: Blockchain buzzkill — one miner’s lament.
When Richard Hunter heard about Kentucky's generous crypto incentives, he packed up his bitcoin machines and pointed them south. He imagined a booming business, jobs for locals, and maybe — just maybe...
23 Touko 202512min
Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction
Since the collapse of coal, Eastern Kentucky has lived through a procession of supposed revivals. Each new idea was treated as something close to salvation. We spent four days driving across the state...
20 Touko 202527min
Mic Drop: Encrypted-ish: The problems with a Signal knockoff
Earlier this month, a photo of former national security advisor Mike Waltz sneaking a peek at his phone during a Cabinet meeting went viral. Micah Lee explains how that moment exposed a massive securi...
16 Touko 202514min
DOGE and its handling of federal data
Our first installment in a five-part series we're calling CyberMonday. As part of a show for 1A, we dive into one of our Click Here episodes and take calls from listeners. This week: DOGE is vacuuming...
13 Touko 202539min
Mic Drop: America’s soft power in Asia – unplugged
Radio Free Asia has broken news on everything from a mystery illness in Wuhan to Uyghur detentions in northwest China. Now it is in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. We speak with Bay Fang, RFA’s...
9 Touko 202512min
Radio Free Europe: When the signal fades
The Trump administration is trying to defund Radio Free Europe… a kind of megaphone for democracy that’s been broadcasting since the Cold War. RFE Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva spent months in a Russian ...
6 Touko 202525min
