dot com: The Hacking
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Introducing: Oceans: Life Under Water
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you hear at the bottom of the ocean? How does it feel to swim with whales? Or make friends with an octopus? Come and find out. This is Life Un...
The Hacking | Ep 4 | Hurricane
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ransomware gangs don't just go for the big fish. Kareem grew up on the West Side of Chicago in a neighbourhood woven with a pattern of guns, drugs and...
The Hacking | Ep 3 | Domino
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Psychological pressure...that's what ransomware is all about. Holiday weekends and Fridays are prime time for ransomware attacks, and on Friday 2nd Ju...
The Hacking | Ep 2 | Leak
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's not just cybercriminals who hack. In February 2022 Russia invades Ukraine, and a few months later someone leaks 60,000 private messages from one ...
The Hacking | Ep 1 | Paper
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You'd think healthcare would be a no-go. You'd hope that, surely, even Russian cybercriminals have their moral boundaries. But you have no idea the le...
Coming soon: The Hacking
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the makers of dot com: Redditland, this is dot com: The Hacking. Out on Tuesday 26th July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Redditland | Ep 6 | The Glass Cliff
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All roads lead to Rome. Or, in this case, San Francisco. Katie’s journey into the complex, fantastic and infuriating world of Reddit over the last f...
Redditland | Ep 5 | The Donald
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Donald subreddit was the most controversial moral dilemma on the stained map of Reddit's history. One of the most active subs of all time, it was ...
Redditland | Ep 4 | The Mandela Effect
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Reddit is the ultimate forum for fans," apparently. But where are they? The fan, the kook, the ultimate fanatic? In this episode Katie's kicking dram...
Redditland | Ep 3 | The Fappening
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2014 and Reddit's at the centre of one of the biggest scandals to hit Hollywood. A hacker has released nude photos of over a hundred celebs onto ...
Redditland | Ep 2 | The Mask
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Drama. With a capital 'D'. Reddit's full of it. Anti-vaxxers vs. science, Bible Belters vs. atheists, racists vs. the rest. It's teaming with trolls, ...
Redditland | Ep 1 | Gamestop
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In late 2020 a comment was posted on the social media website Reddit. It might have been inconsequential. Forgotten. But it wasn't, and soon the world...
Coming soon: Redditland
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the makers of dot com: The Wikipedia Story, this is dot com: Redditland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ...
The Wikipedia Story | Ep 6 | Our Work is Never Done
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's the final episode, and Katie's looking to the future. The internet, the World Wide Web and Wikipedia are built on wonderful ideals of openness an...
The Wikipedia Story | Ep 5 | Wikimania
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Katie's been in this world, this weird and wacky Wikiverse, for about six months now. But there's one thing she still doesn't understand. Wikipedia's ...
The Wikipedia Story | Ep 4 | Hoax
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pizzagate! Covid's made up! Trump really won! Cher's dead! We're ruled by lizards and Q rules all! Fake news, misinformation, or (to call a spade a sp...
The Wikipedia Story | Ep 3 | Moving The Needle
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you noticed anything about most of the Wikipedians we've met so far? One little thing they all have in common? Katie has. We've only heard two wo...
The Wikipedia Story | Ep 2 | Hello World
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's the 15th January 2001 and a new website has just been launched. A free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Crazy idea, right? Maybe. But tw...
The Wikipedia Story | Ep 1 | Don't Bite The Newbies
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is where it starts. The gateway to the hidden universe of Wikipedia. Behind that laptop screen there's a teaming anthill of Wiki people; writing,...