Attack On the Internet: Weak-Link Nanny Cams

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Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Paul Rosenzweig, former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security and founder of Red Branch Consulting, PLLC, talks about the October 21 attack on internet service in the U.S. that left millions without connectivity for hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there?
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benning?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
0:34.3	Welcome to the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk posted on October 26th, 2016.
0:41.2	I'm Steve Murski.
0:42.7	And I'm sitting on a cruise ship currently in port in Puerto Vallata, Mexico.
0:48.2	We started in Vancouver on the 19th of October, stopped in Santa Barbara, San Diego, Cabo, Mazatlan yesterday,
0:58.4	and Puerto Vallarta today, heading back to San Diego and then back to New York City,
1:03.2	not on the ship, by an airplane. So one of the speakers on this cruise, I'm one of the speakers, and so that's why I'm on the cruise,
1:13.0	but one of the other speakers is a fellow named Paul Rosenzweig. I have our little program right
1:19.1	here. You can hear me turning the pages. This is officially the Bright Horizons cruise number 30 that we're on. If you'd like more information about
1:30.8	Bright Horizons Scientific American Cruises, you can go to Insightcruises.com. That's www.com.
1:39.7	That's www.w.com. Now, you almost certainly know about the disruption of the internet last
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