CYBER
388 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHacking. 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.
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How McDonald’s Spies on Organizing Workers
March 04, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MBIt is arguably America’s favourite fast-food restaurant. Home of the Big-Mac, McNuggets and that creepy clown that used to haunt my dreams. McDonald’s is classic Americana that has spread all over the world. But lately, a Motherboard exclusive shows, Ronald’s house of burgers allegedly used private spies to surveil it’s workers. For the latest on this, we have our very own Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai on to discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What Pornhub’s New Rules Could Mean for the Rest of the Internet
February 25, 2021 15:40 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBLet’s be real: most people watch it and it’s about as fundamental to Internet culture as Google itself: Porn. And nowadays, that means Pornhub, the massive shadow YouTube for porn that accumulates millions of clicks daily. Recently, Pornhub made headlines when a New York Times expose showed the site hosts thousands of illegal videos, which forced the site to take down all unverified content and vastly change its content rules.The story caused waves and has begged questions surrounding what th...
Geopolitics and the Cyber Arms Race
February 18, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBIt’s one of my favorite cyber topics in the books: the cyber arms race and the increasing weaponization of the internet and how that plays into the world of geopolitics. Of course that means spies, hackers, dealers and journalists alike. That’s why today we have New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth to talk about her new book: This is How They Tell Me The World Ends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
My First Hack: How Patrick Wardle Hid a Backdoor in His High School Calculator
February 11, 2021 15:25 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBYears before he became the world’s most well known MacOS hacker, Patrick Wardle was a high school nerd curious about hacking. His first hack was figuring out that he could program his fancy calculator and hide a backdoor in it that could help him with his calculus tests. His teacher never caught him, and he actually learned how to solve calculus equations by programming his calculator. “So I’m sure that in retrospect my calculus teacher would be stoked...or that’s what I tell myself,” Wardle ...
The Culture of Video Games: From Military Recruitment to Modding Out Racism
February 04, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBIt’s safe to say that video games are now an essential part of our culture. Globally it’s already dwarfing other classic industries. Even the U.S. military, by far the most powerful war-machine in human history, uses video games to recruit the generation soldier. On the show today is VICE News Correspondent Dexter Thomas who is hosting the new VICEtv series. RESET: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What the Hell is Happening with GameStop's Stock?
January 28, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBIt’s a mixture of Internet trolling, Reddit threads, the fall of capitalism as we know it, and that movie Big Short. If like me you have but a cursory understanding of the stock market and you continually see mention of this GameStop fiasco making headlines the world over. That’s right: A failing video game store has been turned into a multibillion dollar company, by day-trading cartels who live on the Internet. Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler, who knows something about stocks, is on the show t...
What Is President Biden Going to Do About the Cyber?
January 21, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBWell folks, whether you were #resistance or MAGA, he’s arrived. The 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden. What’s he going to do about Russian hackers? Big Tech? Disinformation? Facebook? The NSA, the CIA? All that and more on this week’s episode with Motherboard EIC Jason Keobler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Social Media War After the Attempted Coup
January 14, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBParler. Gab. The President being suspended from almost every mainstream social media entity and finally prevented from engaging in his favorite addiction: Tweeting. Besides the horned Qanon shaman and the disgusting violence on Capitol Hill last week, it has been a hell of a week for social media. Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler and I break it all down for you on today’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
QAnon and the Storming of Capitol Hill
January 07, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBAs President Trump exits office in a hail of conspiracy and baseless allegations about a fraudulent election, the time has come for us to discuss the much vaunted QAnon, led by a shadowy online figure known as “Q.” The verifiably absurd, online conspiracy theory that has ruined lives and families, has seduced millions and even helped propel members of congress into seats. And it just inspired a violent occupation of our nation’s capitol hill. Marc-André Argentino, a PhD candidate at Concordia...
2020: The Year of Cyber Nightmares
December 31, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBLet’s be honest, I know history types keep saying that like the year 536 was way worse than 2020, but I do not care. 2020 was unadulterated trash by almost every metric available. In the cyber world it was also a year that helped advance insidious surveillance tools, the proliferation of disinformation, and more Russian hackers. Jason Koebler, Motherboard EIC, is on the show for the last time in 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hedging Bets on the Future With Author Cory Doctorow
December 24, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBThis week we have a very special guest on the show: All-star sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, a fellow Canadian, and someone who has written about the dystopian near future with stunning accuracy. His latest novel, Attack Surface, tells the tale of a counterterrorism agent and the terrifying power of the surveillance state. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Introducing, 'My First Hack'
December 17, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBEvery pro hacker started somewhere. In this interview series, hackers and security researchers tell their origin stories. For the first episode, we spoke to former government hacker Emily Crose, who now works for a critical infrastructure security startup. Here's Emily's first hack, in her own words." "My first hack happened in high school when I was playing around with Back Orifice 2000 or BO2K, the infamous remote access trojan made by the hacking group Cult of The Dead Cow. My first v...
One of the Top Cybersecurity Companies In the World Got Hacked
December 10, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBWho ya gonna call when you are one of the greatest, multibillion dollar cybersecurity firms in the world, known for investigating breaches into governments and major corporations, when you’re hacked? Well in the case of Fireeye, known for being staffed by ex-intelligence and doing the forensics on massive hacks, they came out and responsibly disclosed that it had been breached. It’s big news in the hacking world and with me today is Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox to breakdown what happene...
Amazon Hired Pinkertons to Union Bust
December 03, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBFounded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish immigrant that went on to become the first detective in the history of Chicago, the Pinkerton Detective Agency became synonymous in American life with conspiracy theories and violent clandestine activities—and with good reason. Though Pinkerton himself was one of the Union’s first spymasters during the Civil War and foiled an assassination plot on President Lincoln in 1861, he did what every ex-intelligence community type does after wars nowaday...
The Base, Part 2: Train. Fight. Organize.
November 26, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBIn the second and final episode in a series for CYBER on neo-Nazi terror group the Base, we dive into its origins: The online brainchild of its leader Rinaldo Nazzaro, an ex-Pentagon contractor with alleged links to the Kremlin (which he denies) who began his project for “race war” as a WordPress site that evolved into a secretive, encrypted chat group, then into paramilitary training in the fall of 2018. But shortly after, VICE News broke the first story on the group and authorities began c...
The Online Birth of Neo-Nazi Terror Group "The Base"
November 19, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MBFor us, the story of the Base all began in the spring of 2018 when we spotted the Twitter profile picture of a shadowy neo-Nazi who went by the alias ‘Norman Spear.’ The photo was eye catching: He looked severe, with a strong brow and a bushy beard, and tweeted about guerilla warfare and the tactics of insurgency. At the time, Spear also had the attention of some serious operators in the domestic terror space: On Twitter he was followed by and following an assortment of well known, online,...
Re-run: One of the World’s Most Wanted Hackers Speaks
November 12, 2020 12:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBThe last time Phineas Fisher agreed to an interview with Motherboard, they made us recreate the whole thing with a puppet. This time around, Phineas Fisher—one of the world’s most wanted hackers—wanted to make a statement on CYBER to deny he’s an agent of the Kremlin. Phineas Fisher is the hacker’s hacker that nobody knows. In fact, nobody even knows if they are just one person, or several people. All we know is Phineas Fisher has hacked, embarrassed, and exposed some of the world’s most ...
The Election of Disinformation
November 05, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBWhat is going on? Why is it going on? Is this actually real? Disinformation in the election was always going to be a thing, and well, it was. Today on Cyber, Ben Makuch and Jason Koebler discuss the state of play and why we're here, Iranian hackers, and mass conspiracies on twitter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Vice News Reports: The Antifa Paradox
November 04, 2020 22:21 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBIs Antifa even a thing? Ahead of an election positioned as “us” versus “them,” the specter of “Antifa” has become an easy boogeyman to either accept or reject out of hand. VICE News takes a serious look at what it is and what it is not. VICE News Correspondent Alzo Slade reports from across the country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Culture Warlords and the Second Civil War
October 29, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBYou know, if you haven’t heard, in the last few years there’s been a lot of discussion around America’s problems with systemic white supremacism and well, white nationalists. Everybody remembers that day in Charlottesville and the problems with the far-right we’ve seen since. Especially during this 2020 election season. In her new book Culture Warlords, journalist Talia Lavin goes undercover to expose the underworld of online fascists, Nazis, and Trump trolls alike. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark
October 22, 2020 13:59 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBVince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Re-run: The Penetration Tester
October 15, 2020 18:42 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week, we talk to Jek, a physical penetration tester whose job is to infiltrate offices, data centers, store stockrooms, and other supposedly "secure" locations and either steal information or install a tool so that other hackers can exfiltrate data. She relies on the most reliable vulnerability of all: human weakness. Jek tells host Ben Makuch how she does it, some of her most memorable operations, and why other hackers think that what she does is "witchcraft." Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Agents of Chaos: The Terrifying Story Behind the 2016 Election
October 08, 2020 11:00 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBIn this age of social collapse and modern plague it’s easy to forget that the 2016 Presidential Election was a clusterfuck of gargantuan proportions. Never before (then) had an election campaign for the highest office in the country become not only a drama, but a media spectacle with a shocking finale. Russian spies. Secret payoffs. Wikileaks. Guccifer 2.0. War in Ukraine. Election interference. All spelling (maybe?), the first chapter in the ending to the American Experiment? HBO has rel...
We Deepfaked Our Podcast Host
October 01, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAudio deepfakes are getting more convincing than ever. To test this out, we’ve replaced our host Ben Makuch with a robotic clone of himself. Sponsored by NeXt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
FOX’s ‘NEXT’ Is about the emergence of a deadly, rogue AI, Rooted In Real World Technology
September 24, 2020 11:00 - 23 minutes - 54.8 MBA thriller about a Silicon Valley pioneer who joins forces with a Special Agent to stop the A.I. he created from destroying humanity. Starting October 6th, NEXT airs every Tuesday at 9/8c on FOX. On this episode of Cyber, in partnership with FOX, we sit down with the show’s creator Manny Coto to talk about the inspiration for this thriller A.I. Coto’s history as a horror and science fiction writer is on display in NEXT. He got the idea for his show about a rogue AI when a smart device in his ...
Inside the Fictitious World of Uber Propaganda
September 17, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBIt’s been a pretty bad PR year for the world’s most popular ride-share app… And unsurprisingly it has poured money into good news stories, to kick up warm fuzzy feelings about a company that has been found, time and again, to not care very much about its drivers. Enter a CNBC paid partnership story about an UberEats driver who is about to make 100k a year. The American Dream, right? Not so, says Motherboard reporter Edward Ongweso who broke down the falsities of this rather suspect piece of...
Inside Amazon’s Spy Campaign Against Its Own Workers
September 10, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBSince the War on Terror kicked off, the military and spy industrial complex has boomed. That also includes a growth in the literal number of spies from agencies like the NSA and CIA, all serving tours, then often entering the private sector. Since then, we’ve seen how things like corporate espionage and the techniques multibillion dollar entities deploy in their interests, have seriously taken off from the trickle down of said veterans entering the workforce Now, we’re in a situation where ev...
How Government AI Stole Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From Citizens
September 03, 2020 14:13 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBIt almost reads like a dystopian plot from a sci-fi novel, playing out in the not-so-distant future. A major world government relies on a defective and cruel algorithm for debt collection, to extort money out of its most vulnerable citizens who were already on social assistance. Or to put it more succinctly: state-sponsored shakedowns via Artificial Intelligence, that ends up being so flawed it results in the country taking hundreds of millions of dollars from its own people. Sounds unrea...
Rerun: The Assassination of Martin Kok
August 27, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBThe tale started with an encrypted phone company, Morroccan gangsters, the Scottish mafia, and a blogger. It ended with an assassination outside of a sex club in Amsterdam. Last week, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox broke the news that MPC—a Scottish company that hawked special encrypted phones that could evade police surveillance—had been connected to the murder of crime blogger Martin Kok. Kok was a former criminal himself who had previously served a jail sentence for two murders. Kok’s ...
Bonus: VENT from VICE UK
August 26, 2020 17:15 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBContent Warning: Descriptions of Sexually Explicit Acts Introducing VENT Documentaries from VICE UK: Young people from London, telling you the stories they care about. In this episode, Khalil grew up with homophobic parents, so he had to learn about being gay on his own. From making Sims characters have gay sex to signing up to online sexting forums, Khalil tells the sometimes hilarious, sometimes graphic and sometimes painful story of what it’s like to come into your queerness on the inter...
The Internet Didn't Kill the USPS, It's Still Vital
August 20, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBBy the year 2000 people started believing, in the advent of widespread email culture, that the United States Postal Service was doomed. Conservatives and business types argued that it was a bloated institution.But it’s not. In fact, it’s a vital, robust network that is literally a failsafe in the doomsday plans of the federal government. These days, while people may not be sending many letters or postcards, the USPS is an essential service helping us vote, get our medicine and deliver us pac...
It's 2020 And We Need To Talk About Nuclear Warheads
August 13, 2020 11:00 - 48 minutes - 65.9 MBSome people think they’re just a vestige of a bygone era, but they’re not. In fact, nuclear weapons remain the everlasting threat they were when we first introduced them to planet earth: An existential nightmare wherein we possess the ability to obliterate our own planet, many times over, with the push of a button. So this week we have friend of the show and Motherboard contributor Matthew Gault to talk nukes. America’s arsenal is being updated; Russia has (probably) hypersonic missiles; and ...
The Internet Vigilante That Hunts Gaming's Biggest Cheaters
August 06, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBHe’s a vigilante that goes by the alias Gamerdoc. He infiltrates secret online chatrooms to hunt down wrongdoing and the dishonest who prey upon and exploit the system. His target you might ask? The many cheating gamers out there who are using flawed code to be really good at titles like Valorant and Overwatch.here’s a huge underbelly of cheating gamers out there who trade and sell gaming cheat codes, the zero-days of the video gaming world, to get to God Mode without the hours of practice. B...
Countries Are Trying to Hack Coronavirus Vaccines From Each Other
July 30, 2020 11:00 - 17 minutes - 40.2 MBThe US has accused Russia and China of trying to hack research groups that are working on a coronavirus vaccine. Is that a bad thing? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How Hackers Took Control of Twitter
July 23, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBMotherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai hosts this special episode of Cyber. He's joined by Joseph Cox, who reported on the Twitter hack that had the accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Apple amongst others tweet out a cryptocurrency scam. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Hacker Who's Hacking Ventilators to Save Lives
July 16, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBIt’s a tale as old as our digital era: Tech enthusiasts wanting to repair their devices without the authorization of the company that makes them. Apple, for example, is notoriously awful at allowing users access to easy fixes of iPhones or Macbooks and instead offers expensive options with one of its “geniuses.” And like everything in our society, the current pandemic has exposed these right to repairs practises for what they are: Ridiculous. Our Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler is here to tell ...
Hit Men, Drug Traffickers: The Criminal Phone Service Hacked By Cops
July 09, 2020 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40 MBIt’s straight out of a hacking thriller: drug dealers. Murderers. Extortionists. Traffickers. Hit men. All using an encrypted network to openly talk about their illicit trades, amassing millions in messages. Then, like the magical hacks of a CSI cyber episode, the cops were in the network and went on the offensive. In one of his wildest stories to date, and that’s saying something, we have the great Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox on the show this week to tell us all about his wild cyberc...
Is America Still Number One At Hacking?
July 02, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBIt used to be that American hackers and the NSA were the unquestionable world’s best. Following the many revelations from the Snowden leaks, it became clear the U.S. government had not only violated the civil liberties of American citizens, but the NSA had done an excellent job hacking, well, everything. It hacked the phones of world leaders (including key allies) and made major geopolitical rivals China and Russia very nervous. But, like everything else in the world, American hegemony in c...
Huawei's Chief Security Officer on 5G and Government Spying
June 25, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBThe US government is in a race with China to provide the world with 5G networks. Some call it the new arms race, as both Washington and Beijing go from country to country trying to negotiate for its companies to provide the future of the internet’s architecture. Part of that has been Trump himself slagging Huawei and undermining the Chinese company as national security risk: The allegation being the company would give the Chinese government a mainline into spying on countries across the world...
The Story of A Robot FBI Agent And Another American Revolution
June 18, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBOn CYBER this week, we’re talking about a novel that frightfully depicts a not-so-distant future where FBI agents work with robot partners and terrorists meet up inside video games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is Anonymous Really Back?
June 11, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBBack in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street protests, a certain hacktivist collective truly came into its own. The years since Anonymous exploded in popularity and even became the constant pop culture reference point to all hacktivism or even, just hackers. But as we’ve discussed on the show, lately, it kind of seems to have disappeared. Until the latest Black Lives Matter protests seems to have kicked it back into the headlines. I got Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierrai on the sh...
It's Now the Military Industrial Complex Versus Protestors
June 04, 2020 11:00 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBWell, it’s a hell of a time to be alive. After a brutalizing pandemic, fit with stay at home orders and government indecision, something else happened. The cold blooded murder of unarmed black man George Floyd by a white cop in Minneapolis has set off unprecedent protests demanding racial equality and an end to police violence against people of color. But instead of quelling these protests with actionable change, it appears the government is just spying on them. We’ve got evidence that now ...
Cyber Show June 2020
June 03, 2020 17:49 - 2 hours - 112 MBCyberworks - Cyber Show June 2020 Track Listing: 1. Jolloff - Elaquent - Forever is a Pretty Long Time 2. Scrumus - Letherette - Brown Lounge, Vol. 5 3. Winds (Ready to Fly) - Preach Jacobs Feat.Georgia Anne Muldrow - Winds (Ready to Fly) 4. Far Beyond feat. Goapele & Zyme - Del the Funky Homosapien & Amp Live - Gate 13 5. Revival - Young RJ x Mega Ran - 2 Hands Up 6. Temptations (Glenn Astro Interpretation) - Jitwam - Honeycomb Remixes 7. What You Want (Taylormade) - Ty Feat.Taylor ...
The Privacy Concerns Behind App Based Contact Tracing
May 28, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBIf you’ve been listening to the news, chances are you’ve heard about it incessantly: contact tracing. But what is it exactly? And what are the surveillance and privacy issues surrounding it? Will yet another app that tracks your movements really be the key to ending the pandemic? Today we got Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierai on the show to tell you everything you need to know about contact tracing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The FBI Can Now Search Your Browser History
May 21, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBSince the dawn of the Patriot Act, a sweeping surveillance bill enacted shortly after 9/11, it’s been both the bane of privacy hawks and the favourite tool of the Intelligence Community. But lately, the Senate, courtesy of Mitch McConnell, helped the IC by giving agencies like the FBI the power to warrantlessly search the browser history of American citizens. That’s terrifying and today we’ve got Motherboard editor/reporter Janus Rose on to breakdown how this happened and what’s next. Hoste...
The Short And Terrifying History Of Modern Surveillance
May 14, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBOn the show, we talk a lot about the state of Orwellian world we’ve found ourselves in: big data, corporate and governmental surveillance. You know, Big Brother. But where did it come from? What’s it’s historical context? To answer these questions, we have author and Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Lawrence Cappello on the show who wrote a book called None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age. In it he traces the over 1...
The Senator Who Believes in UFOs
May 07, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBIn 2017, amidst the backdrop of the Mueller investigation and Russian spy paranoia, the world learned, via a New York Times bombshell, that the Pentagon had a top secret UFO program. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, AATIP for short, had a $22 million dollar black budget and looked into an aerial threat nobody could understand: UFOs. The details were terrifying, US fighter jet pilots regularly came into contact with other worldly flying objects that nobody understood. T...
Tony Allen Tribute Show
May 05, 2020 22:07 - 2 hours - 127 MBDenz - Tony Allen Tribute Show Track Listing: 1. Jealousy 2. Asiko 3. Night In Tunisia 4. Ise Nla 5. Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same) 6. Hustler 7. Afro Pusherman 8. Sinuhe 9. Kindness 10. Afro-Disco Beat 11. Ariya 12. Tribute 13. Road Safety 14. No Accommodation For Lagos 15. Wolf Eats Wolf 16. Secret Agent 17. No Discrimination Mixed By Denz For Nuwaveradio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest
April 30, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBBack in 2013, between the many revelations on mass surveillance abuses by the NSA coming from the trove of Snowden leaks, Americans also learned agents at the signals intelligence agency were snooping on their love interests. Dubbed LOVEINT (a play on ‘Love-Intelligence,’ apparently), a number of agents around the world were caught spying on their love interests using the godlike spy tools of the NSA. Now an employee from an infamous surveillance company was caught trying to do the exact s...
Russian Spies And The Media
April 23, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBThe DNC hack. It was a tale of espionage and intrigue. But behind closed doors, Russian intelligence knew just how to play the media in a liberal democracy. And that is a tale as old as time. Thomas Rid, a world renowned academic on national security and intelligence, wrote a new book called Active Measures tracing secret history psychological warfare over a century. On this week’s episode we have him on the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.