Bruce Schneier — Snowden, Crypto Wars, and the Future of Agentic Hacking
This was a fun one. We sat down with security icon Bruce Schneier to talk about AI systems that break the rules, cybersecurity beyond computers, the fight over encryption, the Snowden documents, block...
15 Aug 1h 6min
The Man Who Was There For Cybersecurity's Strangest Moments — Mikko Hyppönen
The first PC virus. The fastest-spreading malware the internet has ever seen. The Manhattan Project moment for cyberweapons. He was there for all of it. We sat down with Mikko Hyppönen — the man behi...
1 Aug 1h 14min
Hotline Hacked Vol 14
We're so back. Another call in episode featuring strange tales of listeners hacking laundry machines, video games, 90's home computers and so much more. Share your strange tale of tech at hotlinehacke...
16 Juli 57min
The Domain That Outlived a Country
Yes I know, I know it's a TLD. Don't worry, we get to it. In September 1990, a Soviet physicist named Alexey Soldatov registered a domain name for a country that would cease to exist fifteen months l...
2 Juli 1h 6min
The REKK Wreck
Heads up if there's more cat meows and talking over each other than we normally let fly, this is a summer episode with less editing than you've ever heard! We kick this one off with a story of a fra...
2 Juni 1h 8min
The Bad "Bet"
Or the very good bet, depending on how you think about it. In this episode, we start by discussing the strange, fast-moving world of prediction markets — platforms where you can bet real money on whet...
15 Maj 1h 28min
Wizard Spider
Investigative journalist Geoff White has spent a lot of time inside the leaked communications of Conti — the Russian ransomware gang that ran like a corporation, hit Ireland's national health service,...
2 Maj 55min
REvil Redux
We return to one of the more interesting ransomware as a service stories of the last few years; the story of REvil and it's recently (allegedly) named operator. Also the big mythical thing that happen...
16 Apr 1h 10min
