Reported narratives on hackers, spyware, and data crimes from Dina Temple-Raston.
Click Here follows the people living inside the systems most users only notice when they fail. Its stories move from cattle fields and rural broadband gaps to AI emotion research, GPS jamming, and the hidden mechanics of digital life.
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Click Here is produced by Recorded Future News and PRX and is structured mainly as single-topic narrative documentaries rather than straight studio interviews, though some episodes center on one extended conversation. Host Dina Temple-Raston, previously an NPR investigations correspondent, narrates each story and conducts on-tape interviews with her sources. Recurring subject matter includes ransomware, spyware and state surveillance, identity theft and the data-broker economy, and online extremist networks that recruit and groom teenagers through Telegram and Discord channels. Citizen Lab founder Ron Deibert is a recurring guest, discussing investigations into Pegasus spyware, NSO Group, and state-sponsored hacking campaigns like GhostNet. Other episodes step outside pure cybersecurity into adjacent technology-and-society territory, such as AI chatbots adopted by churches, neuroscience research comparing large language model behavior to human brain activity, and local resistance to AI data-center projects. Guests typically include specialists such as cybersecurity policy professors, Secret Service agents, weapons investigators, and researchers at organizations like the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Episodes draw on reporting from Recorded Future News, the show's parent publication, and occasionally cross over with other public-radio programs, such as a joint episode with NPR's 1A. The tone throughout is investigative and narrative-driven, reconstructing cases or events through named sources and documented detail rather than panel discussion or news-of-the-week roundup. Episode lengths mostly run 15 to 45 minutes, and the show is best suited to listeners already following cybersecurity, digital privacy, or technology-policy news rather than general true-crime audiences, though episodes on extremist grooming networks or identity-theft rings will overlap with that audience too.
Made for: Listeners following cybersecurity, digital privacy, and technology-policy news, from casual tech-news followers to infosec and policy professionals.
What sets it apart: Builds each episode as a reported narrative story anchored by original interviews with hackers, victims, and investigators, from a dedicated cybersecurity newsroom rather than a general tech or true-crime outlet.
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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Click Here turns cybersecurity and AI into reported human stories about trust, power and the consequences of systems deployed in the real world.
Click Here starts with a person caught inside a system, then follows the technology outward. Dina Temple-Raston questions identity thieves, Ukrainian officers, local data-center opponents, researchers and religious technology builders with an eye for consequences rather than…
A stolen birthday becomes the loose thread that pulls you through a global identity market.
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A focused look at AI entering church life, where productivity gains run into trust, theology, and moral judgment.
AI's divine intervention follows a Silicon Valley churchgoer named Joe as his experiment with AI moves from answering theological questions to helping churches turn sermons into newsletters, Bible studies, podcasts, Instagram reels, and translated video sermons.
A front-line account of how drones, satellite links, and broken communications are shaping the war in Ukraine.
Click Here frames the Ukrainian front as a technology story heard from close range: a power bank keeping a Wi-Fi router alive in Izum, drones feeding video back to Russian operators, and satellite links shaping what one side can see in real time.
A clear, unsettling account of how permanent personal data becomes repeat inventory for fraud.
Personal data comes across here as durable criminal inventory: names, birthdays, and Social Security numbers that cannot be canceled and can be sold again.
A sharp Citizen Lab profile turns global cyber espionage into a human-scale story of fieldwork, clues, and consequence.
Click Here profiles Ron Deibert and the Citizen Lab through a clean, unsettling origin story: a kid from a hardscrabble part of Vancouver becomes the person tracking how governments and other powerful institutions use technology for grim ends.
A grim, careful look at how online sadism turns isolated kids into targets, performers, and currency.
Click Here's "Violence for the sake of violence" treats alleged 764 activity as a technology story with bodies attached: cyberstalking, extortion, animal abuse, and online performance folded into the same economy of attention.
A grounded look at a Missouri data center fight and the local economics behind cloud expansion.
The people vs. the cloud follows a St. Charles, Missouri data center fight at street level, beginning with Scott Stratton Henderson, a full-time student and claw-machine operator whose mother spots the issue on Facebook.
A taut Citizen Lab profile that turns an early cyber espionage investigation into a human, unsettling story about power online.
Click Here profiles Ron Deibert as an unlikely cybersecurity watchdog, tracing his path from a hardscrabble Vancouver childhood to Citizen Lab, the Canadian research group that investigates how governments and other powerful institutions use the internet.
A grounded look at data center promises, town politics, and the thin job numbers behind the cloud.
Click Here turns a data center dispute into a grounded story about how cloud infrastructure arrives in ordinary local politics. The episode opens with Scott Stratton Henderson in St.
Deeply researched narrative dives into hacking history and cyber-law cases, hosted by Ran Levi.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
IAPP's Jedidiah Bracy interviews the regulators and lawyers writing privacy and AI law.
A daily cybersecurity briefing hosted by Dave Bittner, pairing breaking incidents with a guest interview.
Emotion AI begins with a modest promise.
Ron Deibert, founder of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, traces his path from a hardscrabble Vancouver upbringing to running one of the world's most consequential internet watchdog organizations.
Scott Stratton Henderson had a packed summer: school, work, family, and a claw-machine side business that left toy inventory in his bedroom.
MIT neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko spent 15 years using fMRI scans to prove that language and thought are processed by separate parts of the human brain, overturning a belief held since Plato.
Scott Stratton Henderson was already stretched thin.
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This episode covers a cyber attack on medical device maker Stryker by a pro-Iranian hacking group, highlighting the geopolitical dimensions of modern cyber warfare.
A podcast episode about a ransomware attack on Mississippi's healthcare system and its impact on hospitals.
This episode revisits a story about how the Syrian government used technology to track and control dissent, as told through the home movies of a Syrian activist.
This episode explores how internet connectivity is deliberately disrupted during geopolitical conflicts, focusing on the recent U.S.
People bring sacred questions to machines.
Zahn is speaking from Izum in the dark.
PII lasts forever.
Click Here opens by linking the internet’s evolution from the Pentagon and "You've got mail" to AI, then introduces Ron Deibert as the Canadian behind Citizen Lab.
A college student's summer plans are disrupted when his mother discovers something on Facebook that pulls him into local politics while he manages his claw machine side business.
A podcast exploring the intersection of technology and safety, focusing on a Volvo software update that posed a lethal risk.
This episode explores how algorithms and surveillance technologies are used in immigration raids and how ordinary people use technology to document and counter law enforcement actions.
A podcast about cyber and intelligence stories, with this episode exploring a quest to build a translation tool for whale communication.
The episode announces the show's expansion to public radio and previews a story about crypto mining in eastern Kentucky.
The episode discusses how AI is changing weather forecasting and the impact of funding cuts on the National Weather Service.
This episode investigates China's efforts to suppress Uyghur culture through laws, apps, and surveillance.
The episode discusses a major internet outage caused by an Amazon Web Services data center failure, exploring how it happened.
The episode shares a story from another podcast about AI's impact on education, specifically how ChatGPT has affected classrooms.
A revisit of a story about a ransomware attack that devastated a historic UK logistics company, Knights of Old.
An interview with former intelligence official Sue Gordon about the hollowing out of digital expertise in government.
This episode discusses how foreign hackers are targeting small-town America's utilities and infrastructure, and the implications of reduced cyber defenses.
Tony Christopher Long is presented as a 19-year-old from Porterville, California, while federal prosecutors say he used the online alias "inactive" and was tied to the extremist network 764.
A retired radiologist's Volvo's entertainment system fails, leading into a story about digital vulnerabilities.
This episode explores the story of Reality Winner, an NSA contractor who leaked a classified document about Russian election interference to The Intercept, leading to her prosecution under the Espionage Act and a historic prison sentence.
This episode follows Todd Stratton Henderson, a busy college student and entrepreneur running a claw machine business, whose summer plans are disrupted when his mother alerts him to something on Facebook that pulls him into local politics.