Adrian Chen

New Yorker staff writer Adrian Chen discusses his latest piece, “The Comedy Caucus,” about the team in Lagos behind Nigeria’s first prime-time political-satire show.

Since the election in May, Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has resulted in thousands of deaths in the Philippines. Duterte himself has bragged about personally killing people.

Brooke speaks with WIRED contributor Adrien Chen about the unsung workers who keep horrible images out of your feed.

The way Edward Snowden communicated with the Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, the journalists who eventually wrote stories based on his NSA leaks, was by using encryption software. One of the most popular forms of encryption is called PGP, or "Pretty Good Privacy." Brooke talks to Gawker staff writer Adrian Chen about trying to set up PGP on his computer and how it should be the baseline for national security reporters.

Modest Mouse - Here It Comes

Infamous internet troll Andrew “weev” Auernheimer was sentenced to three and a half years in prison this week. He was prosecuted under the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which critics call too stringent and punitive. Bob talks to Gawker writer Adrian Chen about whether Weev's prosecution will undermine attempts to reform the CFAA. 

 

Plan B - Ill Manors

On January 11, 26-year-old hacker, programmer, and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He had a history of depression and faced federal prosecution for downloading millions of articles from the online academic article repository JSTOR. Brooke talks to Gawker's Adrian Chen, who wrote about Swartz's legal troubles this week.