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CYBER

2020: The Year of Cyber Nightmares

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Let’s be honest, I know history types keep saying that like the year 536 was way worse than 2020, but I do not care. 2020 was unadulterated trash by almost every metric available. In the cyber world it was also a year that helped advance insidious surveillance tools, the proliferation of disinformation, and more Russian hackers. Jason Koebler, Motherboard EIC, is on the show for the last time in 2020.

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the old park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:24.6

Let's be honest.

0:26.6

I know history types keep saying that like the year 536 was way worse than 2020, but I do not care.

0:33.6

2020 was unadulterated trash by almost every single metric available.

0:39.3

That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.

0:45.8

In the cyber world, it was also a year that helped advance insidious surveillance tools,

0:50.3

the proliferation of disinformation and more Russian hackers.

0:54.3

Jason Kebler, motherboard EIC, is on the show for the last time in 2020.

0:59.4

I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.

1:07.4

Well, Jason, it's been a, I mean, it's been a year in cyber.

1:10.1

I would not say that it was, this year was as defined by the Russian hack of the DNC as something like maybe 2016.

1:19.2

At the same time, it's also been a crazy year for some pretty big hacks and some pretty wild conversations around surveillance.

1:28.3

Are you saying you want to recap the worst year ever?

1:32.7

Yeah, that's the thing.

1:33.4

It's like in a, that's what I'm saying is like, this is the worst year ever.

1:37.5

I know somebody said it's like 479 or something instead, but fuck that.

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