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Mic Drop: Australia’s attempt to keep kids off social media Jan 24, 2025

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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.

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Australia takes aim at encrypted apps Jan 21, 2025

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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.

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Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk. Jan 17, 2025

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Jordan Hobbs, a cattle farmer in the Australian Outback, discovers an unexpected offering from low-earth orbit.

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Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite? Jan 14, 2025

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Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu used to worry about asteroids crashing into earth. Now, he’s turned his attention to an even more pressing problem – the weaponization of space debris — and officials say it may have already happened.

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Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom Jan 10, 2025

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Russia’s military spending has propped up the economy, made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold.

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Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love Jan 07, 2025

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We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home.

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Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto Jan 03, 2025

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2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration’s vow to take cryptocurrency mainstream will mean for the cyber criminals in 2025.

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196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace. Dec 31, 2024

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In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, and in the second half of the show, White speaks with human rights advocate Bill Browder about what the world needs to do for Ukraine.

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195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream Dec 27, 2024

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Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We revisit our tour and chat with the museum's director, Vince Houghton.

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194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold Dec 24, 2024

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At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled messages in and out of the Soviet Union — with music.

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