Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | The International League Of Geeky Gentlemen | 20170816 | The origins of the internet, and why nobody thought of making it secure. Just how did the Internet become the most powerful communications medium on the planet, and why does it seem to be an uncontrollable medium for good and bad? In this first episode we go back to the days before the internet to look at the cultural and technological landscape from which it grew, and unravel some of the key moments - now lost in time and obscured by technology folklore, which mark when the internet lost its innocence. Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet. |
02 | The World Wide Villain | 20170823 | Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity? With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of academics and computer hobbyists. Aleks Krotoski asks whether the Web through enabling much wider use of the internet is the villain of the piece in facilitating not just entertainment and commerce, but all aspects of the darker side, from malicious computer hacking attacks, worms and viruses, to new channels for criminality, online extortion and identity theft. Aleks Krotoski asks whether the Web through enabling much wider use of the internet is the villain of the piece in facilitating not just entertainment and commerce, but all aspects of the darker side, from malicious computer hacking attacks, worms and viruses, to new channels for criminality, online extortion and identity theft. Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet. |
03 LAST | Attack Of The Zombie Baby Monitors | 20170830 | Can we control the dark side of the internet? Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet? The Internet is the world's most widely used communications tool. It's a fast and efficient way of delivering information. However it is also quite dumb, neutral, treating equally all the data it passes around the world. From data that forms scientific research papers, the wealth of social media to keep us all connected with friends and relatives, entertainment or material we would rather not see- from political propaganda to horrific violence, the Internet makes no distinction. Is it time to change that? And can we? Can we Control the Dark Side of the Internet? Is it time to change that? And can we? Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet. |