CYBER: Crime and Crypto with Cory Doctorow
Crypto and crime, crime and crypto. They go together like spreadsheets and tax evasion. When cryptocurrency hit the scene it was, according to its eva...
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Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
CYBER: Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice
We talk a lot about encrypted phones on Cyber. Everyone loves a secure communication channel that no one can peer into. But some companies, well, if t...
Apple II and How the Computer Became Personal
If you’re watching or listening to this show you’re probably doing it on a device that owes its very existence to the Apple II. But these days we reme...
Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter
When Elon Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter HQ carrying a white sink along with the message “let that sink in!” it marked the end of ...
Thieves are Stealing Cars Using Old Nokia Phones
It looks like a bluetooth speaker or an old Nokia cellphone. But that’s a disguise. Inside these small devices is everything car thieves need to break...
Someone Is Selling Computer Generated Swatting Services
Automation is making everyone’s lives easier, including people who call in fake bomb threats on crowded public locations. We live in a world where pra...
What We Know about the Pentagon Leaks
Top Secret classified Pentagon documents leaked on a Minecraft Discord server. The pages of documents contain sensitive information about troop placem...
Uber's April Fools Glitch
A terrible April Fool’s day glitch screws over Uber drivers, tenants in California are striking back against landlords, and private banks: do we need ...
How Russia Uses Facial Recognition to Stop Protestors
Facial recognition systems are here. They’ve been deployed extensively along America’s southern border and in its cities. Authoritarian regimes in Ira...
What’s Driving the AI Hype?
Love it or hate it, you can’t escape artificial intelligence. People are using Midjourney to make viral photos of Donald Trump’s arrest and the Pop’s ...