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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.

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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.

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English


Episodes
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Cyber attacks may have us seeing double

9/12/2025
For decades, the U.S. has led the world in cyber innovation. But when it comes to resilience — the ability to withstand and recover from an attack — we’ve fallen dangerously behind. Anne Neuberger, former Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber, explains how AI-powered “digital twins” could help us catch up — and maybe even get ahead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:13:46

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The scam next door

9/9/2025
Scams aren’t always loud. They don’t always come with pop-ups, typos, or promises of instant riches. The most effective ones whisper and tap into our and our better angels. And once they’ve done that… they have us. In this CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we return to a Click Here episode and take your calls—on scams that prey not on our wallets but on our humanity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:35:40

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The veterans who worry Putin

9/5/2025
The Kremlin has mastered controlling the message online. But now, tens of thousands of soldiers are coming home from Ukraine with stories the state can’t erase. Kateryna Stepanenko, a Russia analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, explains why those voices scare Vladimir Putin — and how far he’ll go to keep them quiet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:15:05

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The internet Putin always wanted

9/2/2025
The Kremlin says it has throttled mobile Internet service in Russia to hobble Ukrainian drones. But that explanation is a smoke screen. Behind it lies Vladimir Putin’s long-deferred dream of a tightly controlled Russian internet – and how he’s realizing that dream is becoming a blueprint for strongmen everywhere. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:25:15

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Can AI fix its own energy problem?

8/29/2025
The A.I. boom is reshaping our world—and quietly guzzling power. This week, sustainable code advocate Stuart Clark explains how the race to build smarter machines is heating up our planet—and how we can code our way to a cleaner future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:14:10

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The price tag of you

8/26/2025
For years, companies have been collecting our data—tracking what we search, where we go, what we buy. But now, empowered by AI and fewer government protections, that data is being used to do something unsettling: personalized prices. We look at how it works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:29:15

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Erased: Saving the Uyghur Internet

8/22/2025
What happens when a government erases a people’s digital past? This week on Click Here’s Mic Drop, the story of China’s quiet purge of the Uyghur web—and the lone coder determined to bring it back to life. ERASED is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence — one law, one app, one person, one website at a time. From shuttered schools to vanishing websites, ERASED uncovers an authoritarian regime’s campaign to delete a culture — and the unlikely rebels racing to stop it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:13:59

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Erased: The disappearance of Ekpar Asat

8/19/2025
Ekpar Asat dreamed of building a digital home for his people—a place where Uyghurs could share music, stories, and a sense of belonging. Beijing saw that dream as a threat. They erased the network, and then they erased him. But what happened in Xinjiang wasn’t only about one man or one community. It has become a blueprint for how repression spreads—far beyond China’s borders. ERASED is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence — one law, one app, one person, one website at a time. From shuttered schools to vanishing websites, ERASED uncovers an authoritarian regime’s campaign to delete a culture — and the unlikely rebels racing to stop it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:39:52

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Erased: The curious case of UyghurEdit++

8/15/2025
China’s surveillance of Uyghurs has leapt from the physical world to the digital one. No longer just QR codes on doorways, it’s now hidden in cloud services and software updates. This week on Click Here’s Mic Drop, how digital tools meant to protect identity are being used to erase it. ERASED is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence — one law, one app, one person, one website at a time. From shuttered schools to vanishing websites, ERASED uncovers an authoritarian regime’s campaign to delete a culture — and the unlikely rebels racing to stop it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:16:27

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ERASED: Silencing a kindergarten

8/12/2025
In a small classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then the doors were locked, and founder Abduweli Ayup went from teacher to enemy of the state. ERASED is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence — one law, one app, one person, one website at a time. From shuttered schools to vanishing websites, ERASED uncovers an authoritarian regime’s campaign to delete a culture — and the unlikely rebels racing to stop it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:37:05

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Who let the Feds out?

8/8/2025
DEF CON began as a rogue hacker meetup. Then came the prosecutors, the NSA, and the policy panels. This week on Click Here’s Mic Drop, how a game of "Spot the Fed" turned into an uneasy alliance—and what that says about crime, power, and trust in the digital age. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:13:15

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DEF CON’s accidental godfather

8/5/2025
It started as a going-away party… and became the most legendary hacker conference in the world. This week, Jeff Moss—aka Dark Tangent—tells us how DEF CON began, what it became, and why it still matters. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:23:09

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Mic Drop: Age of Consent

8/1/2025
Australia wants to keep kids off social media. But to do that, it may have to crack open everyone’s digital ID. Privacy advocates say this isn’t just about protecting children– it is about rewriting the social contract for the rest of us. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:14:28

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Introducing "Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets"

7/29/2025
An episode from "Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets" from TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, The Toronto Star, and Piz Gloria Productions: The images are out there—millions of them. Each one a crime scene, each one a permanent scar. But while the Internet forgets nothing, a group of survivors and digital sleuths are trying to change that. They’re challenging the world’s biggest tech platforms to stop looking the other way—and start deleting the evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:40:16

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Mic Drop: Take two chatbots and call me in the morning

7/25/2025
Dr. Stephen Xenakis has spent years treating veterans and pushing the bounds of psychiatry. Now, he’s asking if artificial intelligence could become a kind of digital therapist for veterans struggling with mental health. We return to our interview from earlier this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:14:46

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AI and the secret lives of whales

7/22/2025
What do you get when you cross a marine biologist with a machine learning engineer? Someone who is convinced that humpback whales may have something to say—and that artificial intelligence might be the tool to decode it. This week, we return to a story about interspecies communication, where tech meets tails and signals meet song. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:23:04

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Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet

7/18/2025
Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is that idealism, delusion… or both? As President Trump extends the deadline on the sale of the app, we return to our discussion with Frank McCourt. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:10:52

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Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"

7/15/2025
An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts: We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and internet contrarian Cory Doctorow charts the internet’s slow descent—from open commons to corporate enclosure—and lays out a path to take it back. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:37:40

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Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom

7/11/2025
In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war economy becomes just… the economy? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:12:19

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Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms

7/8/2025
Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting news, coordinating aid, and holding the line in its own way. We return to a story where the frontlines and the airwaves meet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Duration:00:22:04