dot com: The Hacking

Redditland | Ep 3 | The Fappening

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 the internet, and the sub 'The Fappening' has cropped up; the fastest-growing sub of all time. 'Celebgate,' people are calling it. Who was behind the leak, though, and why did they do it? And what do the leaks show about the strings Reddit pulls in the world around us Is the site a mirror of society, reflecting the good and the bad? Or is there a point where that reflection morphs into something more malign; so that it's no longer just a mirror for our ills, but a firestarter?
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Is the post-Cold War era over? In this brave new world, nothing is too small, or big, to be digitalised…including acts of war. Russian ransomware attacks almost doubled last year. At this very moment, cybercriminals are crippling schools, supermarkets, dentists, kindergartens, hospitals, oil pipelines - all in the name of money. Katie Puckrik wants to know who, and why. You can listen to the previous series of dot com on this same feed. Series 1 unveils the hidden army of volunteers behind the world's biggest encyclopaedia; and series 2 explores the heat behind the headlines of the US's 5th biggest social media website, Reddit. Dot com is presented by Katie Puckrik, written and produced by Anna Staufenberg, and edited by Crawford Blair.