Mic Drop: Aidan Raney's secret mission.
Aidan Raney does threat analysis for Farnsworth Intelligence, a company he founded. When one of his clients got caught up in a North Korean IT worker scheme, Aidan set out on a little mission: to infi...
7 Mar 202513min
Meet the “Kyles” — North Korea’s secret IT warriors
North Korea has a secret army of workers applying for remote IT jobs around the world. They collect paychecks, sometimes steal company data, and answer to a boss who isn’t at company headquarters, he’...
4 Mar 202524min
Mic Drop: Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’
We sat down with former deputy national security advisor Anne Neuberger on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to talk about everything from Chinese AI startups like DeepSeek to the compet...
28 Feb 202513min
Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel.’
As his new book “Chasing Shadows” hits bookstores this month, Ron Deibert tells us about how he and his team of digital sleuths at The Citizen Lab have been holding purveyors of high-tech surveillance...
25 Feb 202524min
Mic Drop: Mark Zaid’s ‘red badge of courage’
Earlier this month, Mark Zaid heard that the Trump administration had revoked his security clearances. Mark, best known for being the go-to lawyer for whistleblowers in the intelligence community, now...
21 Feb 202511min
Could AI help ER doctors and medics make better decisions?
A mass shooting in Las Vegas a few years ago helped pave the way for a new DARPA program that is asking a very thorny question: Could doctors and medics make better life-and-death decisions with a lit...
18 Feb 202527min
Mic Drop: The man behind a Binance exec’s Nigerian detention
Nigerian authorities detained a mid-level Binance executive named Tigran Gambaryan for eight months last year. Some observers say officials hoped to extract millions of dollars in fines from the compa...
14 Feb 202513min
The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence
Former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan went to Nigeria on a quick trip to sell Nigerian officials on the utility of cryptocurrencies. He ended up detained there for eight months. On today’s show, an...
11 Feb 202527min
