#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 April 2022
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Air Date 4/2/2022
Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political gain. The current wave of anti-trans and anti-gay legislation sprouting across the country is not about protecting kids and is absolutely nothing new.
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Ch. 1: Andy Greenberg - Longform - Air Date 12-11-19
Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for Wired. His new book is Sandworm. “I kind of knew I was never going to get access to Sandworm, which is the title of the book - so it was all about drawing a picture around this invisible monster.”
Ch. 2: How America’s gas got hacked - Today, Explained - Air Date 5-12-21
The largest-known ransomware attack on American energy infrastructure is driving up gas prices and creating shortages. Wired's Lily Hay Newman says Colonial Pipeline might be a turning point for cybersecurity.
Ch. 3: Is Russia at War with the West? Part 1 - The Inquiry - Air Date 11-21-18
There are currently a number of serious allegations made in the West against Russia. They include the attempted murder of the former spy Sergei Skripal on British soil; interference in the 2016 US election; the hacking of the American electricity grid.
Sanger joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the threats and realities, how the U.S. wages cyber warfare, and how prepared the U.S. is to stop attacks.
Ch. 5: Is Russia at War with the West? Part 2 - The Inquiry - Air Date 11-21-18
Russia has been practicing cyberwar in a real-life test lab — Ukraine. Andy Greenberg, author of 'Sandworm', recounts how Russia went from repeatedly shutting down Ukraine's infrastructure to unleashing worms that caused billions of dollars in damage.
Ch. 7: Is World War III Already Here? - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 1-3-22
Warfare has changed so fundamentally, that we're currently in a war we don't even recognize. It's the war that Russia, China, and other hostile foreign actors are fighting against us — weaponizing social media to undermine our faith in each other
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Ch. 10: Final comments on the deception and logical fallacies at the heart of critiques of gender affirming care
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the modern reality of cyber war. |
| 0:10.9 | It's not the mass destruction of attacks that were imagines to look like a cyber-pural |
| 0:15.6 | harbor, but the much more subtle cyber attacks that often fly under the radar and live |
| 0:21.2 | in the gray area, in attempts to inflict harm without provoking counterattack. |
| 0:27.1 | Today are from long form, today explained, the inquiry, the PBS NewsHour, think from NBC |
| 0:34.6 | News, your undivided attention and with an additional members only clip from what next |
| 0:40.6 | TBD? |
| 0:47.5 | I came to this story because Wired's editors actually in late 2016 they asked me to |
| 0:53.3 | find a big story of cyber war. |
| 0:56.1 | In fact they wanted to do a takeover of the whole magazine and the way that the New York |
| 0:59.5 | Times magazine does sometimes about like a climate change or the Middle East to do an |
| 1:03.4 | entire issue just on cyber war. |
| 1:06.5 | And I was kind of resistant to that idea actually. |
| 1:09.2 | I said yes because of course you say yes to like doing that sort of big thing, but I think |
| 1:13.2 | that they had on their mind like something about the election hacking of 2016 like Russian |
| 1:18.0 | hackers who had meddled in the 2016 presidential election, which I didn't see as cyber war. |
| 1:22.8 | So I went looking for what I could serve up as like a real cyber war story. |
| 1:28.9 | And I had been reading about what had happened in Ukraine, what was happening in Ukraine I |
| 1:32.7 | should say. |
| 1:33.8 | And the fact that a group of hackers had caused the first ever blackout triggered with |
| 1:39.2 | as a cyber attack. |
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