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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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May 6, 2025 25 mins

The Trump administration is trying to defund Radio Free Europe… a kind of megaphone for democracy that’s been broadcasting since the Cold War. RFE Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva spent months in a Russian prison because of her work for the station and now she worries about what will fill the void, if it is silenced.

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Military decisions used to take months — maybe even years. Cyberwarfare decisions can happen in milliseconds. Lt. General Charlie "Tuna" Moore, former deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, explains how soldiers without cyber skills are already a step behind.

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April 29, 2025 24 mins

In late 2023, Nick Lawler got a call from someone claiming to be an FBI agent. The man said that the utility Nick ran in Littleton, Massachusetts, was the target of an elaborate, international hacking operation. It set off an unlikely series of events that involved a small community, Chinese state hackers and the quiet threat hiding in our most basic infrastructure.

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Meet Mando: an IT guy by day, cybercrime fighter by night. And his mentor? One of the most prolific data thieves ever. Together, they’re rewriting the rules of digital justice.

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April 22, 2025 30 mins

This week, how a global game of cat and mouse led to a friendship—and an unexpected redemption.

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This week, as national security agencies brace for deep cuts and digital expertise is shed from their ranks, we talk to former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon about what happens when intelligence is stuck in the past. She says the real danger isn’t what we don’t know—it’s what we stop trying to understand.

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DOGE says it’s rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But in her first media interview, one insider at the U.S. Digital Service says DOGE’s “audit” felt more like a purge.

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While the world is weighing in on where the ethical boundaries of AI should lie, Heather Mellquist Lehto has partnered with someone who has very definite views on AI’s use: the pope.

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April 8, 2025 24 mins

Churches are turning to AI to craft sermons and draw in new believers. But when faith interacts with algorithms, does it change what we’re worshipping?

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More from our exclusive conversation with former NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone. He now leads the Institute of National Security at Vanderbilt and will convene a summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats next week. Think cyber warfare, AI, and disinformation and how they will shape wars in the future. He gave us a preview.

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This week, a rare sit-down with Gen. Paul Nakasone — former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and one of the key architects of America's modern cyber operations. Now out of government, he told us nothing was off-limits. So we asked about China. About AI. And about what the current Trump term could mean for the future of cyberwarfare.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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