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CYBER — 321 episodes

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El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview

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VICE is back with a new podcast

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Why Congress's Fears of Russian Space Nukes Is Political Theatre

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AI Deepfakes Are Everywhere and Congress is Completely Out of Their Depth

5

Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding

6

How to Read Leaked Datasets Like a Journalist

7

What a Novel About an AI Documenting the Last Human Says About Our Real Dystopia

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The Future of Nukes Involves AI and Nobody Knows What Happens Next

9

OpenAI’s Make or Break Lawsuit and the Golden Idol of AGI

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The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away

11

The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born

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How Online Fights Affect Real World Battlefields

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You Can’t Automate the Difficult Decisions

14

Despite OpenAI Chaos, Wall Street Is Still Betting Big on AI

15

What Happens When an Anti-Sex Trafficking Operation Goes Wrong

16

Crypto One Year After the Collapse: All My Apes Blinded

17

The Landlord Tech Company That Turned Security Deposits Into a Monthly Fee

18

The Viral ‘Kia Boys’ Car Theft Trend That’s Going Viral on Instagram

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Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here

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Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It

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The Real History of the Luddites

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Operation Underground Railroad, Psychic Intelligence, and ‘The Sound of Freedom’

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‘Extremely Online’ With Taylor Lorenz

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Hot Labor Summer

25

The Jason Koebler Exit Interview, Part Two

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Rare Motherboard Lore and a Goodbye to Jason Koebler

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The Viral Science Video That Will Save the World or Do Nothing At All

28

The Barbenheimer Special

29

Adam Conover On the Hollywood Strike

30

The False Claims Behind an Anti-Trafficking Group’s Hollywood Moment

31

Celebrating the End of the Usable Internet

32

The Increasingly Violent Discord Servers Where Kids Flaunt Their Crimes

33

Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

34

The DHS Is Reading Travelers' Posts at the Border

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AI Can Read Your Dreams and Collect Your Debts. What’s Next?

36

CYBER: Crime and Crypto with Cory Doctorow

37

CYBER: Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice

38

Apple II and How the Computer Became Personal

39

Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter

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Thieves are Stealing Cars Using Old Nokia Phones

41

Someone Is Selling Computer Generated Swatting Services

42

What We Know about the Pentagon Leaks

43

Uber's April Fools Glitch

44

How Russia Uses Facial Recognition to Stop Protestors

45

What’s Driving the AI Hype?

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The DEA Is Skipping Warrants and Buying Data from Rogue Employees

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Why Does Congress Want to Ban TikTok?

48

Scalpers Are Selling Whole Ticketmaster Accounts Now

49

This Is Why America's Trains Keep Crashing

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WTF Is Up With the Silicon Valley Bank Bailout?

51

LastPass Isn’t Safe and Your Hiking App May be Tracking You

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The Great Balloon Panic Has Been Weird But Good for Balloon Hobbyists

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How Tubgirl Became a TikTok Sensation

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We Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

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Voice Generating-AI Is Now the Plaything of 4Chan

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What's the Deal With AI Seinfeld?

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One Man’s Obsession With Being 18 Forever

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Iran’s AI-Powered Surveillance State

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What Was Havana Syndrome, the Mystery Illness that Hit American Spies?

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The Nextdoor Poster to Political Activist Pipeline

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Replika, the AI Chatbot Users Say Is Sexually Harassing Them

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The Government Isn’t Coming for Your Gas Stoves

63

Hacking Digital License Plates

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The Trans Dataset Built Without Permission and Stored Improperly

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Cops and Courts Don’t Know How to Handle Apple’s AirTag Stalking Problem

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The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible

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The Online Prophet Whose Followers Keep Getting Arrested

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Railroad Strikes and Killer Robots

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The Rise of the Robot Landlords

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Taking Elon Musk Seriously

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Why ‘Community Feedback’ Doesn’t Work

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Who Is Sam Bankman-Fried, the ‘Savior’ Who Crashed FTX?

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How Sex Changed the Internet

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Social Media Is Dead

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Why Concert Tickets Are So Expensive

76

Watching Facebook Burn

77

The Killer Robot Future Is Already Here

78

A History of ‘American Terror’

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When the Video Game Reaches Out to Ask You to Spend More Money

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Nuclear War 101

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Inflection Is the Background Check Company Making Decisions for Uber and Airbnb

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How Corporations and Governments Use Games to Control Us

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How To Protect Yourself From Social Engineering Hacks

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The Chess Scandal Involving Butt Plugs, AI, and Accusations of Cheating

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AI Art is Powered by ISIS Executions and Non-Consenual Porn

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Inside the Tool the US Military Is Using to Monitor Emails and Web Traffic

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Uber’s Been Hacked and Sim Swappers Are Getting Violent

88

Our Latest UFO Obsession and the Chess Scandal Heard Round the World

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CYBER LIVE: Living in a Dystopia, We're All Luddites, Taking Life Back From Corporations (feat. Cory Doctorow)

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Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

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The Hypercane and Other Looming Climate Disasters

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A Nuclear War Would Starve the Planet

93

A Hopeful Future Where Drones Become Farmers

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A Dystopia Where AI Runs U.S. Healthcare and Asks Patients to Die

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Suing Spam Texters for Fun and Profit

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Listen to a Story from Motherboard’s First Ever Short Story Collection

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What the ‘Roblox’ Hack Revealed About Chinese Censorship and U.S. Content Moderation

98

Space Junk, Taiwan, and War at a Nuclear Power Plant

99

Inside the Alex Jones Trial

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Why TikTok Is Obsessed With Pink Sauce

101

How a Former Porn Performer Sued Her School for Discrimination—and Won

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Hacking BMW’s Heated Seats

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Ukraine’s Decentralized Cyber Army

104

Why Billionaires Seem Obsessed With Birth Rates

105

How the FBI Wiretapped the World

106

Listen to Disney Characters Talk About Targeted Advertising

107

The Supreme Court Doesn't Care About What Americans Want

108

How the End of Roe Will Change Privacy

109

Raising Rents at a Landlord Convention

110

The Reply Guy From Hell

111

You’re Afraid of AI For All the Wrong Reasons

112

This Vigilante Keeps Crypto Safe From Thieves by Hacking it First

113

Why Does Everything in Tech Feel Like a Scam?

114

Discord Is The Center of the Crypto World and That’s a Problem

115

There’s a Housing Boom in a California Town that Burned Down 4 Years Ago

116

How Journalists Work With Hacktivists

117

America’s Complicated Relationship With Nuclear Power

118

Fired By Starbucks, Union Organizer Wears Fursuit to Rallies

119

BONUS: The Surprising Origins of Ransomware

120

Crypto is Collapsing (For Now)

121

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing With your Data

122

The Data Broker Tracking Abortion Clinic Visits Is Also Selling to the CDC

123

Hostile Takeovers and Poison Pills: The Week Elon Musk Came for Twitter

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The Cozy Relationship Between Cops and a Drone Manufacturer

125

How Criminals Use Apple Pay to Abuse Credit Cards

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America’s Freight Train Drivers Are Exhausted and Overworked

127

The RaidForums, Illegal ‘Club Penguin’ Servers, and the Blockchain in the DPRK

128

Apple AirTags Are Being Used for Stalking

129

Meet the Father and Son Team Breaking Into Crypto Wallets

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The Digital Colonizers of ‘Axie Infinity’

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Meet the Ethical Hackers At War With Putin

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OSINT Experts Are Helping Foreign Students Flee Ukraine

133

Inside Evangelical Start-Up Culture

134

The Rise of the Hacking Group LAPSUS$

135

The Many and Varied Uses of 'lol'

136

How a Korean Celebrity Scandal Predicted Online Led Harassment Campaigns

137

CRYPTOLAND

138

The Nightmare of Running a Delivery Company for Amazon

139

Hacking, War, and Cyberwar in Ukraine - the Latest

140

The Cyber Front in the War on Ukraine

141

How Open Source Intelligence Is Debunking Russian Propaganda in Ukraine

142

Listen as Tech Companies Lobby the Cops

143

Hackers Are Making a Fortune Stealing from Kids in ‘Roblox’

144

The Lingering Mystery of the Rapper Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin

145

The Decentralization of Disinformation (with Anna Merlan)

146

In the 1990s, the FBI Raided the World’s Horniest BBS

147

This Is Why There’s Been So Many NFT and Crypto Hacks

148

How Criminal Hackers Put on the White Hat

149

Signal’s CEO Steps Down Just As the App Starts Allowing Crypto Trades

150

Piracy Will Never Die

151

‘Amazon Won’t Let Us Leave’

152

The Crypto Plot to Buy the Constitution Was a Gigantic Disaster That Still Made Everyone Rich

153

The Promise and Terror of Artificial Intelligence

154

The Feds Say He’s a Crime Boss, He Says He’s Just a Tech CEO

155

Introducing: A Show About Animals

156

What Apple’s New Repair Store Means for the Right-to-Repair

157

The Metaverse Is the Ultimate Surveillance Tool

158

Hackers Are Outsourcing Social Engineering to Bots

159

Motherboard Does Dune: Geopolitics and War

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Motherboard Does Dune: Spice, Psychedelics, and Spirituality

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Motherboard Does Dune: Eugenics and Race (with Hood Feminism author Mikki Kendall)

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Motherboard Does Dune: Oil, Spice, and Environmental Destruction

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What's Behind the Biggest U.S. Strikewave in a Generation

164

A Brief History of Twitch Getting Hacked

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The Anti-Trafficking Movement and Afghanistan

166

Darknet Diaries Presents: The Pentagon's Online War Against ISIS

167

Twitch Hacked!

168

Company That Handles Billions of Text Messages Was Hacked (and WTF is going on at Facebook?)

169

Facebook's Content Moderators Are Leaving Their Jobs With PTSD

170

How Amazon's Astro Robot Will Track Everything You Do

171

My First Hack: My Teacher’s Computer

172

How To Not Get Scammed In The Crypto Market

173

Why People Won't Do the One Simple Thing that Protects Them Online

174

Hackers Ruining Warzone Or Do You Just Suck?

175

Apple's Spy in the Jailbreak Community

176

My First Hack: Taking Down a Classic, Minesweeper

177

These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners Online

178

The Future of Weaponized App Data

179

Gig Work Sucks, Just Ask Uber and Lyft Drivers

180

Unmasking a Notorious Nazi Shitposter

181

It's Not The Heat, It's The Humidity That's Killing Us

182

Why Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With This Ancient Philosophy

183

My First Hack: Turning The School’s Heat On With My Telephone

184

Live Eye Pays Remote Workers to Spy

185

The Latest On Amazon Dehumanizing Its Workers

186

How the FBI Ran Its Own Texting App to Catch Criminals

187

The CIA's Woke Twitter Rebrand

188

My First Hack: A High School Prank With Bad OPSEC

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How Drug Cartels Do Cybersecurity

190

Everything You Need To Know About the Pipeline Hack

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The Pokemon Card Gold Rush Is Causing a Labor Crisis

192

Inside One of the Biggest Apple Device Hacks Ever

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Why WhatsApp Wont Let You Appear Offline

194

The Far Right's War Against Porn

195

How Your Phone Can Get Hacked for $16

196

My First Hack: How a Cybersecurity Pioneer Hacked Her Way Through Life

197

Re-run: How Palantir's Spy Tool for Cops Works

198

How Those Viral Tom Cruise Deepfakes Were Made

199

The AI-Enabled Cameras Surveilling Towns Across America

200

How McDonald’s Spies on Organizing Workers

201

What Pornhub’s New Rules Could Mean for the Rest of the Internet

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Geopolitics and the Cyber Arms Race

203

My First Hack: How Patrick Wardle Hid a Backdoor in His High School Calculator

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The Culture of Video Games: From Military Recruitment to Modding Out Racism

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What the Hell is Happening with GameStop's Stock?

206

What Is President Biden Going to Do About the Cyber?

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The Social Media War After the Attempted Coup

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QAnon and the Storming of Capitol Hill

209

2020: The Year of Cyber Nightmares

210

Hedging Bets on the Future With Author Cory Doctorow

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Introducing, 'My First Hack'

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One of the Top Cybersecurity Companies In the World Got Hacked

213

Amazon Hired Pinkertons to Union Bust

214

The Base, Part 2: Train. Fight. Organize.

215

The Online Birth of Neo-Nazi Terror Group "The Base"

216

Re-run: One of the World’s Most Wanted Hackers Speaks

217

The Election of Disinformation

218

Vice News Reports: The Antifa Paradox

219

Culture Warlords and the Second Civil War

220

The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark

221

Re-run: The Penetration Tester

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Agents of Chaos: The Terrifying Story Behind the 2016 Election

223

We Deepfaked Our Podcast Host

224

FOX’s ‘NEXT’ Is about the emergence of a deadly, rogue AI, Rooted In Real World Technology

225

Inside the Fictitious World of Uber Propaganda

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Inside Amazon’s Spy Campaign Against Its Own Workers

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How Government AI Stole Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From Citizens

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Rerun: The Assassination of Martin Kok

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Bonus: VENT from VICE UK

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The Internet Didn't Kill the USPS, It's Still Vital

231

It's 2020 And We Need To Talk About Nuclear Warheads

232

The Internet Vigilante That Hunts Gaming's Biggest Cheaters

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Countries Are Trying to Hack Coronavirus Vaccines From Each Other

234

How Hackers Took Control of Twitter

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The Hacker Who's Hacking Ventilators to Save Lives

236

Hit Men, Drug Traffickers: The Criminal Phone Service Hacked By Cops

237

Is America Still Number One At Hacking?

238

Huawei's Chief Security Officer on 5G and Government Spying

239

The Story of A Robot FBI Agent And Another American Revolution

240

Is Anonymous Really Back?

241

It's Now the Military Industrial Complex Versus Protestors

242

The Privacy Concerns Behind App Based Contact Tracing

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The FBI Can Now Search Your Browser History

244

The Short And Terrifying History Of Modern Surveillance

245

The Senator Who Believes in UFOs

246

NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest

247

Russian Spies And The Media

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Why the United States Isn't Ready for Online Voting

249

Bonus: The Distance

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The Cyber Mercenaries Who Can’t Stay Out Of Bad News

251

Zoom's Boom In Popularity Reveals Privacy Issues

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How Amazon Has Continued To Exploit Its Workers During the Pandemic

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How Governments Might Use Coronavirus to Chip Away At Our Privacy

254

This Small Company Has Turned Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon

255

North Korea's Hackers Are Still Active, and What Data Clearview AI Has on You

256

How Cameo’s Private Celebrity Videos Were Open to the World

257

Jeff Bezos’ Meteoric Rise, and Kickstarter’s Historic New Union

258

Stealing Luxury Cars Has Never Looked So Easy

259

The Truths Behind UFOs, and The App That Blew Up The Iowa Caucus

260

Drugs, Cannibals, and Identity Theft: The Truth Behind The Dark Web

261

Jeff Bezos Is Hacked and Uber Is Capitalism at its Worst

262

Whatever Happened To Anonymous?

263

Iranian Hacker Hysteria

264

Re-run: Edward Snowden on Julian Assange, the Mueller Report, and Press Freedom

265

Trolls, Hackers, Spies: The Cyber Decade

266

The Hacker In My Ring Camera: A Tale of Trolls And A Podcast

267

Where Our Cell Phones Go When We Recycle Them

268

How Big Telcos Just Made Your Phone Easier To Hack

269

The CYBER Cypher EP

270

How Scary Is Critical Infrastructure Hacking?

271

How Google Torpedoed A Cybersecurity Rising Star

272

The Assassination of Blogger Martin Kok

273

Inside the U.S. Cyber Army

274

Girls Do Porn

275

How Neo-Nazi Terrorists Are Organizing Online

276

Lyft and Uber Are Having a Terrible, Awful, No-Good Time

277

The Spy Who (Allegedly) Screwed Us

278

The Private Surveillance System Tracking Cars in America

279

The Biggest iPhone Hack In History, Explained

280

The Cyberwar In Yemen

281

How to Track Malware

282

Forget Russian Trolls, American Voting Systems Can Be Hacked

283

Inside Def Con: World's Biggest Hacker Gathering

284

Why The FBI Arrested the Hacker Who Saved the World From WannaCry (with Marcy Wheeler)

285

The Phone Farmers Who Fake Netflix Ad Views for Cash

286

One of the World’s Most Wanted Hackers Speaks

287

How Palantir's Spy Tool for Cops Works

288

The Connection Between a Deadly Gunfight and Phone Location Data

289

Inside Jigsaw, Google's 'Internet Justice League'

290

Is Your Password Secure? Probably Not

291

The Zuckerberg Deepfake Heard Around the World

292

What Happens When a US Border Protection Contractor Gets Hacked?

293

The Politician Fighting The Spyware Industry

294

The Grugq

295

Who’s Afraid of Huawei?

296

Why There’s No Need to Panic About a ‘Cyber 9/11’

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Manhattan’s District Attorney Explains How She Prosecutes Cybercrime

298

How a Hacker Tracked Thousands of Cars and Gained the Ability To Kill Their Engines

299

Edward Snowden on Julian Assange, the Mueller Report, and Press Freedom

300

How ‘Unicorn Riot’ Exposes The Far Right Online

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How the ‘New York Times’ Protects its Journalists From Hackers and Spies

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Why The ASUS Supply Chain Hack Is a Big Deal

303

Why Hackers Are Stoked That Beto O’Rourke Was One Of Them

304

How Online Disinformation Affects the Real World

305

The Prototype iPhones Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code

306

The Cybersecurity Industrial Complex

307

How Hackers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones

308

How Google Tracks Hackers

309

The Spyware Sting Operation

310

The Penetration Tester

311

I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone

312

[BONUS] Malicious Life: The Ashley Madison Hack

313

The PewDiePie Hacks

314

The Dark Overlord and the 9/11 Insurance Files Hack

315

The Base

316

How to Track Government Hackers and APTs

317

The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked

318

Inside the Messy World of Nintendo Switch Hacking

319

America's Voting Machines Are Vulnerable to Election Hacking

320

SIM Hijacking and the Phone Number Ransom

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