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163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet Sep 06, 2024

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Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days their embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. Afghan anthropologist Omar Sharifi unpacks whether its working.

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162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban Sep 03, 2024

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Technology has changed the way countries wage war, and today, we look at an app in Afghanistan that wanted to change the way people on the ground experienced it.

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161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror? Aug 30, 2024

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New legislation is seeking to designate some ransomware attacks as acts of terror. Former FBI agent John Riggi talks about the proposal and how it might change the battle against ransomware gangs.

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160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story Aug 27, 2024

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Sky Lakes Medical Center in south central Oregon never imagined it could be on the receiving end of a ransomware attack. Then Ryuk put them in the crosshairs.

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159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream Aug 23, 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 code breaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We take a tour and chat with the museum’s affable director, Vince Houghton.

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158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun Aug 20, 2024

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For years now, the Internet has trafficked in things that are more mean than fun. Disinformation, online bullying, and a general malaise are all over social media. We talk to former Stanford Internet Observatory Research Director Renee Diresta about her new book “Invisible Rulers” and ask why, ahead of the DNC Convention, the Dems’ new unbearable lightness has gone so viral.

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157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’ Aug 16, 2024

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We talk with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.

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156. Something different: a hacker redemption story Aug 13, 2024

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This isn’t your typical hacker tale. The one about boy meets computer, boy loves computer, boy weaponizes computer to commit crimes. This is about what comes after that.

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155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality Aug 09, 2024

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The latest on disinformation researcher Nina Jankowicz’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News — and why the Dominion Voting Machine settlement doesn’t necessarily help her case.

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154. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in… Aug 06, 2024

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A new wave of piano scams is targeting the weakest link on the internet: humans.

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