79. One woman’s Orwellian experience with disinformation
We look at an American disinformation campaign that makes clear online abuse directed at women goes far beyond a couple of mean tweets. And, an update on a Syrian activist who was on the receiving end...
8 Aug 202325min
78. Trouble in the cloud
Putting your data in the cloud used to be seen as the gold standard of information security. Why have your small IT team protect your data when the experts at Microsoft or Google or AWS can do it inst...
1 Aug 202318min
77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
This week, we share an episode from PRX and Inkstick Media’s “Things that Go Boom” podcast about the thousands of miles of fiber optic cable lying at the bottom of the sea. Some 95 percent of the worl...
25 Juli 202339min
76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
Since our story on spyware in Mexico aired back in March, researchers have discovered a roster of Pegasus spyware infections on the phones of local journalists, activists, and even officials within th...
18 Juli 202324min
75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
From WBUR's “Endless Thread" podcast, a story on a growing segment of artificial intelligence: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text and how bots can help us understand grief. Learn about...
11 Juli 202334min
74. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
We revisit a sit-down interview we had with NSA contractor Reality Winner shortly after she spent 4 years in prison for passing a single classified document to a reporter. Given all the focus on class...
4 Juli 202322min
73. Can satellite surveillance save Sudan from itself?
Two decades after Arab militias first torched villages and killed hundreds of thousands of people in West Darfur, violence has returned to the region. We tell the story of one group of researchers who...
27 Juni 202328min
72. Exclusive: Inside an American Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine
We go behind the scenes of U.S. Cyber Command’s Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine. We interviewed half a dozen American cyber warriors who were on the ground in Kyiv, and they provide new details abou...
20 Juni 202328min
