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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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Mar 28, 2025 · 15 min
Mic Drop: Jon Clay: Minority Report meets cyber… pre-cogs sold separately
Trend Micro's Jon Clay explains how artificial intelligence has turned a Hollywood fantasy into a real cybercrime fighting-tool … and it's already working in Taiwan. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 25, 2025 · 26 min
The Zelensky playbook: Ukrainian lessons for Taiwan
So how do you prepare for a war that hasn’t yet started? We take you inside a naval war game for Taiwan that unfolded in a very unlikely place: Las Vegas. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 21, 2025 · 13 min
Mic Drop: Kelly Shaw’s job got hacked – by DOGE
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is supposed to keep us safe from cyber threats, but now its own employees are under attack—this time from sweeping layoffs. We speak with a CISA manager caught in what has been dubbed the Valentine’s Day massacre… and examine what this could mean for our cybersecurity future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 18, 2025 · 20 min
Is Trump making the US more cyber vulnerable?
When news came that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have paused U.S. offensive cyber operations against Russia, it made headlines around the world. But experts say the Trump team is doing something behind the scenes that could be more harmful. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 14, 2025 · 10 min
Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the internet
Billionaire Frank McCourt doesn’t want to buy TikTok for its algorithm and addictive videos. He wants its 170 million American users to help him fundamentally change the Internet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 11, 2025 · 35 min
The TikTok ban, China, and national security
Click Here host Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A's Jenn White about the latest on the TikTok ban, what’s next in the possible sale of its American arm, and whether the app is really a threat to national security. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 7, 2025 · 13 min
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 infiltrate one of these operations and understand how it worked. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 4, 2025 · 24 min
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’s sitting in Pyongyang. We hear about one named Kyle. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 28, 2025 · 13 min
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 competition for the future world order. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 25, 2025 · 24 min
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 to account. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 21, 2025 · 11 min
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 appears to be part of a growing list of people President Trump perceives as disloyal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 18, 2025 · 27 min
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 little help from AI? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 14, 2025 · 13 min
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 company. Others maintain they just wanted to send a message. Matthew Page from Chatham House gives us some backstory. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 11, 2025 · 27 min
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 exclusive interview with Tigran about his detention, and how he got out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 7, 2025 · 14 min
Mic Drop: The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry
Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general, has always had an open mind when it came to cutting-edge technology. Now he’s looking at AI to see if it can help doctors treat veterans struggling with mental health. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 4, 2025 · 23 min
SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘With AIs Wide Open’ from IRL: Online Life is Real Life
An episode from IRL: Online Life is Real Life from Mozilla and PRX: Are today’s large language models too hot to handle? Bridget Todd, host of the IRL: Online Life is Real Life podcast, digs into the risks and rewards of open sourcing the tech that makes ChatGPT talk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 31, 2025 · 12 min
Mic Drop: Tracking a Ghost
Law enforcement agencies have been disrupting criminal gangs by intercepting their encrypted communications. Jamie O’Reilly of the cybersecurity company Dvuln talks about an Aussie effort to track Ghost. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 28, 2025 · 24 min
Knights of Old and a ransomware joust
For 150 years Knights of Old, a U.K. logistics company, survived everything from two world wars to Brexit. Then a ransomware group called Akira stormed the company's networks. In just a blink of an eye, everything changed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 24, 2025 · 14 min
Mic Drop: Australia’s attempt to keep kids off social media
Australia is trying to use age-gating to keep kids under 16 off social media. John Pane, at Electronic Frontiers Australia, is worried that kids won’t be the only people losing something. He says privacy as we know it is also in the crosshairs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 21, 2025 · 29 min
Australia takes aim at encrypted apps
Session, a little known encrypted messaging app out of Australia, thought it would help the world keep its communication private—and then a new law threatened their plans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Mic Drop: Jon Clay: Minority Report meets cyber… pre-cogs sold separately

The Zelensky playbook: Ukrainian lessons for Taiwan

Mic Drop: Kelly Shaw’s job got hacked – by DOGE

Is Trump making the US more cyber vulnerable?

Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the internet

The TikTok ban, China, and national security

Mic Drop: Aidan Raney's secret mission.

Meet the “Kyles” — North Korea’s secret IT warriors

Mic Drop: Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’

Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel.’

Mic Drop: Mark Zaid’s ‘red badge of courage’

Could AI help ER doctors and medics make better decisions?

Mic Drop: The man behind a Binance exec’s Nigerian detention

The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence

Mic Drop: The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry

SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘With AIs Wide Open’ from IRL: Online Life is Real Life

Mic Drop: Tracking a Ghost

Knights of Old and a ransomware joust

Mic Drop: Australia’s attempt to keep kids off social media

Australia takes aim at encrypted apps