77: Olympic Destroyer

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In February 2018, during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea, a cyber attack struck, wiping out a lot of the Olympic’s digital infrastructure. Teams rushed to get things back up, but it was bad. Malware had repeatedly wiped the domain controllers rendering a lot of the network unusable. Who would do such a thing? We will talk with Andy Greenberg to discuss Olympic Destroyer, a chapter from his book Sandworm (affiliate link). Sponsors Support for this show comes from Linode. Linode supplies you with virtual servers. Visit linode.com/darknet and get a special offer. Support for this show comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hackers and the Olympics?
0:02.0	Yeah, it's happened.
0:03.6	In the fencing competition of all places,
0:05.7	have you watched modern fencing lately?
0:07.7	If you watch it, I have one tip for you.
0:10.4	Don't blink.
0:12.0	Fencing is extremely fast.
0:13.8	The blades are whipping through the air.
0:15.6	As a spectator, you're trying to see who hit,
0:17.6	who first keeping your eyes on two different swords at once,
0:20.6	it's impossible to tell.
0:22.2	In fact, it's impossible for the judges to tell too.
0:25.7	So they've adopted technology to help.
0:28.6	And I'm not talking about some high-speed camera.
0:30.8	No, it's more technical than that.
0:32.6	There's circuitry involved.
0:34.2	In order to score a point, your foil or sword
0:37.0	needs to apply 0.75 kilograms of pressure
0:40.7	to the opponent's target area, which is their head or chest.
0:44.3	And you have to directly poke with the foil,
0:46.7	slashing or hitting the target with the side of the foil
0:48.7	doesn't count.
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