#signals-intelligence
9 episodes
#2416: Ghost Murmur: Heartbeat Detection or Disinformation?
Did the CIA locate an airman by his heartbeat from 40 miles away? We examine the physics and the story.
#2382: How Five Eyes Intel Sharing Really Works
Behind the headlines of global cyber takedowns—how Five Eyes allies share signals intelligence in practice, from WWII roots to modern ops.
#2225: The Physics of Eavesdropping: Nation-State Listening in 2026
From laser microphones to keystroke acoustics to the Great Seal Bug, what remote listening actually looks like when physics becomes the bottleneck—...
#2072: Downed Pilot Turns Hideout Into Strike Base
A downed WSO in Iran directed Reaper strikes from a mountain crevice while awaiting rescue—here's the tech and tactics that made it possible.
#1165: Unit 8200: The $160B Secret Behind the Startup Nation
Explore how an elite Israeli intelligence unit became a $160B startup engine and the ethical friction behind its global tech dominance.
#966: The Silence of Damascus: Eli Cohen and the Physics of Spycraft
Was Eli Cohen’s capture a failure of tradecraft or a mathematical certainty? Explore the physics of signals and Soviet radio tracking.
#953: Shadow Signals: The Mystery of Number Station V-32
Explore the haunting world of number stations and the mysterious new V-32 signal emerging from the conflict in Iran.
#631: The Oron: Israel’s Flying Supercomputer in a Luxury Jet
Discover how a luxury business jet became the IDF's most powerful intelligence asset, the Oron, a high-altitude flying supercomputer.
#334: Subsea Secrets: How AI Taps the World's Fiber Optics
Herman and Corn reveal how governments ingest the internet through subsea cables and use Agentic AI to filter the global digital firehose.