Episodios

  • Mic Drop: The ego exploit
    Jun 13 2025

    Zoom was built for speed. But in its rush to connect us, it may have left a few doors open. This week, a cybersecurity expert walks us through how one of Zoom’s most mundane features became a hacker’s best friend—and why the weakest link in crypto isn’t the blockchain… it’s the person who thinks they’re too smart to get scammed.

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    14 m
  • An illusion of control
    Jun 10 2025

    Jake Gallen was a rising star in crypto. Then, after what seemed like a routine YouTube interview, his digital world unraveled. His NFTs? Liquidated. His social accounts? Hijacked. It turns out, the hackers didn’t need phishing links or fake job offers. They needed something much simpler: a Zoom invite.

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    26 m
  • Mic Drop: In crypto’s defense
    Jun 6 2025

    The Trump memecoin dinner looked like a political stunt. Maybe even a scam. But inside the crypto community, some saw something else: legitimacy. Today, we hear from one of crypto’s most thoughtful defenders.

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    10 m
  • All the president’s meme coins
    Jun 3 2025

    Memecoins were born as Internet pranks — worthless by design, traded for laughs. But now they are buying real power, and a digital joke just slipped past the velvet rope straight into the Oval Office.

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    20 m
  • Mic Drop: A former North Korean IT worker speaks
    May 30 2025

    For years, North Korea has quietly dispatched an army of IT workers overseas—not to innovate, but to infiltrate. Disguised as freelancers, they apply for jobs, breach systems, and wire stolen funds back to Pyongyang. This week, a rare conversation with one of them—a defector—about the regime’s digital underworld, and the personal toll of escaping it.

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    12 m
  • 227 new reasons to worry about North Korea
    May 27 2025

    North Korea has built an artificial intelligence research center to supercharge its cyber operations, Unit 227. It’s a move that some experts say has been years in the making — and others say should scare us senseless.

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    22 m
  • Mic Drop: Blockchain buzzkill — one miner’s lament.
    May 23 2025

    When Richard Hunter heard about Kentucky's generous crypto incentives, he packed up his bitcoin machines and pointed them south. He imagined a booming business, jobs for locals, and maybe — just maybe — a shot at redemption. But what he got … was a buzzkill.

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    13 m
  • Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction
    May 20 2025

    Since the collapse of coal, Eastern Kentucky has lived through a procession of supposed revivals. Each new idea was treated as something close to salvation. We spent four days driving across the state and it became clear that things like crypto mining and AI data centers may not offer a break with history – just a continuation of it.

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    28 m
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