Mic Drop: A former North Korean IT worker speaks
For years, North Korea has quietly dispatched an army of IT workers overseas—not to innovate, but to infiltrate. Disguised as freelancers, they apply ...
227 new reasons to worry about North Korea
North Korea has built an artificial intelligence research center to supercharge its cyber operations, Unit 227. It’s a move that some experts say has ...
Mic Drop: Blockchain buzzkill — one miner’s lament.
When Richard Hunter heard about Kentucky's generous crypto incentives, he packed up his bitcoin machines and pointed them south. He imagined a booming...
Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction
Since the collapse of coal, Eastern Kentucky has lived through a procession of supposed revivals. Each new idea was treated as something close to salv...
Mic Drop: Encrypted-ish: The problems with a Signal knockoff
Earlier this month, a photo of former national security advisor Mike Waltz sneaking a peek at his phone during a Cabinet meeting went viral. Micah Lee...
DOGE and its handling of federal data
Our first installment in a five-part series we're calling CyberMonday. As part of a show for 1A, we dive into one of our Click Here episodes and take ...
Mic Drop: America’s soft power in Asia – unplugged
Radio Free Asia has broken news on everything from a mystery illness in Wuhan to Uyghur detentions in northwest China. Now it is in the Trump administ...
Radio Free Europe: When the signal fades
The Trump administration is trying to defund Radio Free Europe… a kind of megaphone for democracy that’s been broadcasting since the Cold War. RFE Jou...
Mic Drop: Gen. Charlie "Tuna" Moore: Cyber Wars Don’t Wait for Consensus
Military decisions used to take months — maybe even years. Cyberwarfare decisions can happen in milliseconds. Lt. General Charlie "Tuna" Moore, former...
Volt Typhoon comes for Littleton
In late 2023, Nick Lawler got a call from someone claiming to be an FBI agent. The man said that the utility Nick ran in Littleton, Massachusetts, was...