Click Here
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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 268
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
The veterans who worry Putin
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 …
00:15:05 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
The internet Putin always wanted
The Kremlin claims it’s slowing mobile internet to keep Ukrainian drones at bay. But that’s just the cover story. What’s really happening is Vladimir Putin’s long-imagined plan for a walled-off Russi…
00:25:15 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Can AI fix its own energy problem?
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 …
00:14:10 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
The price tag of you
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 somethin…
00:29:15 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Erased: Saving the Uyghur Internet
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…
00:13:59 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Erased: The disappearance of Ekpar Asat
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, a…
00:39:52 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Erased: The curious case of UyghurEdit++
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 H…
00:16:27 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Erased: Silencing a kindergarten
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 …
00:37:05 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Who let the Feds out?
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 …
00:13:15 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
DEF CON’s accidental godfather
It started as a going-away party… and became the most legendary hacker conference in the world. This week, Jeff Moss—aka The Dark Tangent—tells us how DEF CON began, what it became, and why it still …
00:23:09 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Mic Drop: Age of Consent
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 …
00:14:28 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Introducing "Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets"
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 …
00:40:16 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Mic Drop: Take two chatbots and call me in the morning
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 strugglin…
00:14:46 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
AI and the secret lives of whales
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 t…
00:23:04 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet
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…
00:10:52 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
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 an…
00:37:40 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
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…
00:12:19 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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 n…
00:22:04 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
While most of us were staring at the auroras lighting up our Instagram feeds last year, a small group of analysts at the Space ISAC were focused on something a little less… pretty. Think solar flares…
00:11:38 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
The space debris strikes back
In this week’s CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we revisit a Click Here episode and take your calls—this time, about the cluttered chaos orbiting above us. Space debris isn’t just a cleanup prob…
00:40:41 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
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