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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Could the U.S. Have Stopped Russia’s Hack?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The United States is contending with a computer hack unprecedented in scope, and it could take months or even years to understand exactly what happened. But the hack has roots in vulnerabilities understood since the beginning of the internet, so why and how did this happen?  Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate’s "War Stories" columnist  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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season just at the moment as they are difficult.

1:01.3

And Slate's Fred Kaplan, he says right now,

1:04.1

all these places have got a bunch of workers

1:06.5

scouring their back end systems, looking for clues.

1:11.1

What they're doing, they're going through logs

1:13.6

who has come into this system.

1:15.9

And they check the digital ID of the IP address

1:21.6

of whoever has come in.

1:23.3

So they're checking the guest list.

1:24.9

Yeah, kind of.

1:25.6

And they now know about 15 or 20 of these

1:31.9

that are associated with the hack.

1:33.9

So they look for those IDs.

1:38.1

They are looking for signs of a perniciously quiet kind

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