Cover-ups, coincidences, and conspiracy theories: where did Covid come from? John Sudworth was the BBC's China correspondent when an unexplained pneumonia started worrying Wuhan doctors in December 2019. Since then, he's been investigating the

For the Lulz

Dec 20th, 2021 14m 2s

Biella and technology journalist Frank Bajak discuss how two teenage hackers, calling themselves Lulzsec Peru, managed to expose corruption and shook the Peruvian government to the core with a massive leak of documents - and in doing so become

Wetware

Dec 20th, 2021 14m 42s

Biella explores biohacking - the hacking of the human body - and the different reasons why people are becoming cyborgs. She speaks with artist Moon Ribas about how tech can be used to push the boundaries of creative expression while putting hum

Sharing

Dec 20th, 2021 14m 47s

One of the core beliefs in the many subsets of hacker culture is that information should be freely accessible and shared. But there are two distinct ways of achieving this freedom of information - Piracy, and The Open Source.Biella talks to Pet

Broken

Dec 20th, 2021 14m 2s

In the past, it was natural to open your phone and pop in a new battery. Today, to do that you may have to be a hacker. Biella speaks to representatives from the EU Right to Repair Movement, and farmers Nebraska to talk about this new, and unex

End User

Dec 20th, 2021 14m 2s

In the past, state-sponsored hacking focused on espionage, stealing sensitive information and disrupting technological systems. Nowadays, the focus has shifted. Rather than hacking technology, state-sponsored hackers are targeting people. Biell

Aaron

Dec 14th, 2021 14m 33s

Biella explores the legacy of Aaron Swartz. From the age of 14, Aaron was a prolific hacker, inventor and activist. He was integral in the creation of Creative Commons and the Internet Archive, co-founder social media site Reddit, and was passi

Press Ganged

Dec 14th, 2021 14m 2s

Biella uncovers the story of how in the 1980s and 90s the French government forced hackers to work for them, drawing young men who had skirted the law into the depths of international cyber warfare.

Hail Satan

Dec 14th, 2021 14m 52s

Hackers have long been portrayed as the bad guys, but Biella uncovers how the ethical Grey and White Hat hackers created the modern security industry, despite the risk to their careers, and fierce opposition from major tech and software compani

The Worm

Dec 13th, 2021 14m 2s

In 1988, the first major computer worm shook the early internet to his core, disabling computers across the network and even causing panic in the Pentagon. Biella uncovers the story with Eugene Spafford, the first person to analyse the worm tha

Phreaks

Dec 13th, 2021 14m 55s

Biella explores the earliest hacking subculture - The Phone Phreaks - an entire subculture that learned to manipulate the phone system with plastic whistles and tone generating blue boxes, and played a part in birthing the modern digital world.

Introducing The Hackers

Dec 6th, 2021 2m 53s

Digital anthropologist Gabriella Coleman explores the strange history of hacker culture. From the kids who Phreaked the phone networks of the 1950s, right up to the present day.

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