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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’…
1 year, 5 months ago
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 t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.
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?
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 …
1 year, 5 months ago
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
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 no…
1 year, 5 months ago
Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love
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 a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the…
1 year, 6 months ago
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
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 a…
1 year, 6 months ago
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines th…
1 year, 6 months ago
194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
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 Unio…
1 year, 6 months ago