Episodes
10 years · 153 episodes
Topic
Format
Year
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15 May 2026
The Bad “Bet”
Or the very good bet, depending on how you think about it. In this episode, we start by…
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2 May 2026
Wizard Spider
Investigative journalist Geoff White has spent a lot of time inside the leaked communications of Conti — the…
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16 Mar 2026
Breaking the Chain of Custody
We start this chatty chat looking at the legacy of EternalBlue, an NSA-developed cyberweapon that leaked in 2017…
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2 Feb 2026
The Protege — “Possibly the Worst Intelligence Disaster in U.S. History”
Two FBI agents. One room. One of them is the most damaging spy in U.S. history. Robert Hanssen…
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16 Aug 2025
From Street to State
We discuss the rise of China’s early patriotic hacking scene, and a new report that unravels how some…
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1 Jan 2025
Throwback: The Phantom Orchestra
Happy holidays, everyone. We’re bringing you a hacked classic to tide you over while Scott and I take…
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16 Apr 2024
The iSoon Leaks
A data leak at a big Chinese security company reveals not just that they're engaged in state sponsored…
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16 Aug 2023
Pondering the Worldcoin Orb + the Gang Who Cracked Outlook + Hacking Together Superconductors for Fun and Profit
In this chat episode we discuss Sam Altman's Worldcoin biometric ID / crypto project, the cybercrime syndicate that…
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16 Nov 2022
Trojan Phone
The story of the international plan to put a very insecure phone into the pockets of criminals around…
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1 Aug 2022
Private Eyes
The story BellTroX and the world of private investigators outsourcing the nitty gritty stuff.
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1 Jul 2022
Modified Elephant
The story of some very incriminating letters and the mission to figure out where they came from.
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16 Jun 2022
The Phantom Orchestra
The story of a saxophone player trying to cross a border with a code hidden in plain sight.…