Podcast Episodes

183. Mic Drop: Moore’s Law now applies to space

Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu says Moore’s Law of computing power doesn’t just apply to chips anymore – he says it describes the exponential growth of …

1 year, 7 months ago

182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government

(November 12, 2024)

A week before the election, we sat down with Ret. General Paul Nakasone and he talked about North Korea, Russian hackers, his life…

1 year, 7 months ago

181. A hacker’s final frontier — Space

Recently, a lot of smart people who work on space problems gathered at the Value of Space Summit in Colorado Springs and talked to us about the thing…

1 year, 7 months ago

180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’

We sit down one-on-one with Retired General Paul Nakasone, the man who dreamed up the US response to the latest iteration of foreign election chicane…

1 year, 7 months ago

179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs

While the world was taking selfies against the colorful backdrop of solar storm auroras this past spring, officials at the Space Watch Center in Colo…

1 year, 8 months ago

178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race

NASA has off-loaded much of the space program onto the private sector. Companies are building space suits and moon buggies and lunar landers. We tell…

1 year, 8 months ago

177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships

We talk to the NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity, David Luber, about Ukraine, adversaries in cyberspace, and the importance of partnerships.

1 year, 8 months ago

176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?

China’s influence campaigns look different from Russia’s. Instead of Moscow’s firehose of falsehoods, the Chinese tend to change the subject by inund…

1 year, 8 months ago

175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco’s unusual anti-scamming campaign

We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.

1 year, 8 months ago

174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe

Dozens of small acts of sabotage and arson have flared across Europe as part of Russia’s hybrid battle against the West. This week, we spoke with fou…

1 year, 8 months ago