Podcast Episodes

Back to Search
143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.

Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins has been working with young people not just to show them how to sort fact from fiction, but to give them a reason to…

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.

Antibot4Navalny is a small but mighty group of anonymous researchers calling out Russian disinformation — and punching way above their weight.

Learn …

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape

Omny Miranda Martone has been working with a handful of Washington lawmakers for more than a year on legislation that would put an end to the impunit…

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?

After years of shouting into the wind about deepfakes and deepfake porn, we take a look at some possible solutions that offer not just deterrence but…

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.

The GhostSec hacktivist group used to be known for its cyberattacks against terrorist groups like ISIS. Then, last year, the group took an unexpected…

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer

Infostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete th…

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine

As Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret …

2 years ago

Short Long
View Episode
136. Money and fame — not just  social change — are creating  a new kind of hacktivist.
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.

A hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and g…

2 years, 1 month ago

Short Long
View Episode
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction

Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, …

2 years, 1 month ago

Short Long
View Episode
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?

US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about…

2 years, 1 month ago

Short Long
View Episode

Love PodBriefly?

If you like Podbriefly.com, please consider donating to support the ongoing development.

Support Us