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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.

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10:52

Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him...

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2025/07/18

Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is that idealism, delusion… or both? As President Trump extends the deadline on the sale of the app, we return to our discussion with Frank McCourt.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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37:40

Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"

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2025/07/15

An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and internet contrarian Cory Doctorow charts the internet’s slow descent—from open commons to corporate enclosure—and lays out a path to take it back.Listen to the full series:https://link.mgln.ai/ClickHereLearn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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12:19

Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom

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2025/07/11

In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war economy becomes just… the economy?Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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22:04

Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and...

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2025/07/08

Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting news, coordinating aid, and holding the line in its own way. We return to a story where the frontlines and the airwaves meet.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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11:38

Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in...

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2025/07/04

While most of us were staring at the auroras lighting up our Instagram feeds last year, a small group of analysts at the Space ISAC were focused on something a little less… pretty. Think solar flares. Think sabotage. Think space debris with a grudge. This week, we revisit our story about the watchers who don’t get much attention.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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40:41

The space debris strikes back

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2025/07/01

In this week’s CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we revisit a Click Here episode and take your calls—this time, about the cluttered chaos orbiting above us. Space debris isn’t just a cleanup problem. It’s a threat vector. What happens when an old satellite, long forgotten, becomes the perfect cover for a cyberattack? Or worse… a weapon?Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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13:56

Mic Drop: Predator mode

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2025/06/27

Drones promised progress—lifesavers in floods, storytellers in newsrooms, even assistants to archaeologists. But somewhere along the way, they took a darker turn. Now they hover over protests, shadow 911 calls, and surveil our neighborhoods from above. This week, researcher Faine Greenwood on how we normalized the hum of surveillance—and why all this is starting to resemble something much more authoritarianLearn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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24:34

The surveillance trap

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2025/06/24

Today: A story about a technology that began in the fields — tracking cattle — and is now on the ankles of immigrants. It’s part of a program called “alternatives to detention.” And these ankle monitors, smartphone apps, GPS check-ins have changed. They’re not just tools to monitor. Increasingly, they’re being used to entrap. And for some immigrants, complying with the system means walking straight into ICE detention.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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15:21

Mic Drop: Catching a tempest in a honeypot

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2025/06/20

A Chinese hacking group walked right into a trap. Not a firewall. Not a filter. A honeypot. This week, Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt explains how a digital decoy called MadPot helped expose Volt Typhoon—and why, in the age of AI, the real vulnerability isn’t software. It’s people.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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24:28

The blockchain that criminals love

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2025/06/17

TRON was supposed to be just another Ethereum knockoff — faster, cheaper, maybe a little flashier. But over time, it's become something else entirely: the go-to blockchain for illicit finance.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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14:02

Mic Drop: The ego exploit

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2025/06/13

Zoom was built for speed. But in its rush to connect us, it may have left a few doors open. This week, a cybersecurity expert walks us through how one of Zoom's most mundane features became a hacker's best friend — and why the weakest link in crypto isn't the blockchain … it's the person who thinks they're too smart to get scammed.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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25:32

An illusion of control

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2025/06/10

Jake Gallen was a rising star in crypto. Then, after what seemed like a routine YouTube interview, his digital world unraveled. His NFTs? Liquidated. His social accounts? Hijacked. It turns out, the hackers didn’t need phishing links or fake job offers. They needed something much simpler: a Zoom invite.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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10:00

Mic Drop: In crypto’s defense

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2025/06/06

The Trump memecoin dinner looked like a political stunt. Maybe even a scam. But inside the crypto community, some saw something else: legitimacy. Today, we hear from one of crypto’s most thoughtful defenders.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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20:27

All the president’s meme coins

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2025/06/03

Memecoins were born as internet pranks — worthless by design, traded for laughs. But now they are buying real power, and a digital joke just slipped past the velvet rope straight into the Oval Office.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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12:09

Mic Drop: A former North Korean IT worker speaks

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2025/05/30

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 back to Pyongyang. This week, a rare conversation with one of them—a defector—about the regime’s digital underworld, and the personal toll of escaping it.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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21:32

227 new reasons to worry about North Korea

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2025/05/27

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 scare us senseless.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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12:37

Mic Drop: Blockchain buzzkill — one miner’s lament.

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2025/05/23

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 — a shot at redemption. But what he got … was a buzzkill.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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28:04

Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction

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2025/05/20

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 and it became clear that things like crypto mining and AI data centers may not offer a break with history – just a continuation of it.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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14:39

Mic Drop: Encrypted-ish: The problems with a Signal...

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2025/05/16

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 security flaw – and a possible backdoor into government chats.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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39:23

DOGE and its handling of federal data

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2025/05/13

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 up federal data and using it in ways that no one ever has before, with very little oversight.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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