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
Mic Drop: Former Deputy DNI Sue Gordon: ‘it is conceivable that the world order has already been broken’
This week, as national security agencies brace for deep cuts and digital expertise is shed from their ranks, we talk to former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon about what…
00:25:18 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
USDS insider says DOGE’s audits are like nothing she’s ever seen
DOGE says it’s rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But in her first media interview, one insider at the U.S. Digital Service says DOGE’s “audit” felt more like a purge.
00:25:25 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Mic Drop: AI’s unexpected Roman holiday
While the world is weighing in on where the ethical boundaries of AI should lie, Heather Mellquist Lehto has partnered with someone who has very definite views on AI’s use: the pope.
00:10:46 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
AI’s divine intervention
Churches are turning to AI to craft sermons and draw in new believers. But when faith interacts with algorithms, does it change what we’re worshipping?
00:24:45 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Mic Drop: Nakasone on Vanderbilt's future of war summit
More from our exclusive conversation with former NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone. He now leads the Institute of National Security at Vanderbilt and will convene a summit on Modern Conflict and Emergi…
00:14:25 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Exclusive: Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest threat
This week, a rare sit-down with Gen. Paul Nakasone — former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and one of the key architects of America's modern cyber operations. Now out of government, he told …
00:36:50 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Mic Drop: Jon Clay: Minority Report meets cyber… pre-cogs sold separately
Trend Micro's Jon Clay explains how artificial intelligence has turned a Hollywood fantasy into a real cybercrime fighting-tool … and it's already working in Taiwan.
00:15:14 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
The Zelensky playbook: Ukrainian lessons for Taiwan
So how do you prepare for a war that hasn’t yet started? We take you inside a naval war game for Taiwan that unfolded in a very unlikely place: Las Vegas.
00:26:12 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Mic Drop: Kelly Shaw’s job got hacked – by DOGE
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is supposed to keep us safe from cyber threats, but now its own employees are under attack—this time from sweeping layoffs. We speak with a…
00:13:23 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
Is Trump making the US more cyber vulnerable?
When news came that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have paused U.S. offensive cyber operations against Russia, it made headlines around the world. But experts say the Trump team is doing somethin…
00:20:48 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the internet
Billionaire Frank McCourt doesn’t want to buy TikTok for its algorithm and addictive videos. He wants its 170 million American users to help him fundamentally change the Internet.
00:10:12 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
The TikTok ban, China, and national security
Click Here host Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A's Jenn White about the latest on the TikTok ban, what’s next in the possible sale of its American arm, and whether the app is really a threat to nati…
00:35:43 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Mic Drop: Aidan Raney's secret mission.
Aidan Raney does threat analysis for Farnsworth Intelligence, a company he founded. When one of his clients got caught up in a North Korean IT worker scheme, Aidan set out on a little mission: to inf…
00:13:07 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Meet the “Kyles” — North Korea’s secret IT warriors
North Korea has a secret army of workers applying for remote IT jobs around the world. They collect paychecks, sometimes steal company data, and answer to a boss who isn’t at company headquarters, he…
00:24:18 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Mic Drop: Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’
We sat down with former deputy national security advisor Anne Neuberger on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to talk about everything from Chinese AI startups like DeepSeek to the compe…
00:13:58 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel.’
As his new book “Chasing Shadows” hits bookstores this month, Ron Deibert tells us about how he and his team of digital sleuths at The Citizen Lab have been holding purveyors of high-tech surveillanc…
00:24:46 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Mic Drop: Mark Zaid’s ‘red badge of courage’
Earlier this month, Mark Zaid heard that the Trump administration had revoked his security clearances. Mark, best known for being the go-to lawyer for whistleblowers in the intelligence community, no…
00:11:34 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
Could AI help ER doctors and medics make better decisions?
A mass shooting in Las Vegas a few years ago helped pave the way for a new DARPA program that is asking a very thorny question: Could doctors and medics make better life-and-death decisions with a li…
00:27:29 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Mic Drop: The man behind a Binance exec’s Nigerian detention
Nigerian authorities detained a mid-level Binance executive named Tigran Gambaryan for eight months last year. Some observers say officials hoped to extract millions of dollars in fines from the comp…
00:13:04 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence
Former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan went to Nigeria on a quick trip to sell Nigerian officials on the utility of cryptocurrencies. He ended up detained there for eight months. On today’s show, a…
00:27:47 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
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