Podcast Episodes

Data Dunkirk: Evacuating a Nation’s Information Under Fire

Season 1 Episode 23

What happens when bombs — cyber or kinetic — threaten the lifeblood of a nation’s systems: its data? “Data Dunkirk” explores how modern states can pr…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Zero-Day Diplomacy: How Vulnerability Disclosure Shapes Alliances

Season 1 Episode 22

Vulnerability disclosure is no longer just a technical process—it’s a diplomatic act. As cyber vulnerabilities become currency in the geopolitical ma…

9 months ago

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Grid Under Glass: The ICS Kill Chain from Breakers to Bytes

Season 1 Episode 21

Cyber-physical power systems are increasingly vulnerable to attacks that blur the line between bits and breakers. This blog post explores how adversa…

9 months, 1 week ago

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Sensing the City: Building ISR from Commercial Tech

Season 1 Episode 20

What happens when AI-enhanced commercial satellites, smart city sensors, retail cameras, and mobile apps converge into a single open-source intellige…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Deepfake Diplomacy: Crisis Management in an Age of Synthetic Media

Season 1 Episode 19

As synthetic media becomes a tool of statecraft and subversion, deepfakes pose an acute challenge to diplomatic crisis management. This post examines…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Jammed: The New GPS Battlefield

Season 1 Episode 18

GPS is under attack. From jamming in war zones to spoofing near airports and farms, GNSS threats are rising fast. This post explores how critical inf…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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Chokepoints of the Digital Ocean: Securing Subsea Cables

Season 1 Episode 17

Subsea cables carry over 99% of the world's digital traffic but remain critically vulnerable to sabotage, espionage, natural disasters, and accidenta…

10 months ago

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After the Coup: How Intelligence Services Survive (or Collapse) in Political Upheaval

Season 1 Episode 16

When regimes collapse or survive a coup, intelligence agencies face purges, realignment, or ruin. This post examines how Egypt, Turkey, and Thailand …

10 months, 1 week ago

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Operation Echo Chamber: How Algorithms Are Becoming Intelligence Actors

Season 1 Episode 15

What began as convenience has evolved into covert capability. This deep dive explores how recommendation systems—once designed to ease cognitive load…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Security by Design: Why We Need a Department of Cyber Infrastructure

Season 1 Episode 14

The United States needs a dedicated Department of Cyber Infrastructure—a centralized executive-level body focused solely on safeguarding the nation’s…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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