50. LockBit Diaries: A researcher's year undercover with the world’s most dangerous ransomware gang
After spending more than a year undercover with the notorious ransomware gang LockBit, one researcher explains how the group revolutionized the business of ransomware. Learn about your ad choices: do...
17 Jan 202322min
49. Genshin Impact: trying to balance mass appeal with Beijing's blessing
Genshin Impact put the Chinese video gaming industry on the map. While the game has delighted players, it begs the question: Can China’s Communist Party and a massively popular video game peacefully c...
10 Jan 202320min
48. Call me crypto curious
We take a deep dive into a corner of the cryptocurrency economy that hasn’t (completely) tanked yet: Bitcoin mining. It is part cryptography, part math, and part luck. Learn about your ad choices: do...
3 Jan 202321min
47. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Summer in Caputh’ from Exile
An episode from “Exile” from the Leo Baeck Institute and Antica Productions. At the height of his fame, a shirtless, barefooted Albert Einstein escapes the bustle of Berlin for a simpler life. The bes...
27 Des 202230min
46. The musicians who came in from the cold
At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled ...
20 Des 202222min
45. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Saving Ukrainian Cultural History Online’ from The Last Archive
Sharing a special episode of another podcast, The Last Archive, a show about the history of truth -- or the lack thereof. Harvard historian Jill Lepore uncovers the secrets of the past the way a detec...
13 Des 202214min
44. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
We go back to an episode we did earlier this year about a gang of SIM swappers who are behind something called violence-as-a-service. Doxing or defacing websites, they told us, just doesn’t send enoug...
6 Des 202219min
43. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ from Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince
“Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince” from School of Humans and iHeartPodcasts introduce you to the person who should have been North Korea’s leader – had he not been on the receiving end of w...
29 Nov 202239min
