Episode 13: This Podcast Did Not Go Through the VEP But We Are Releasing It Anyway
The National Security Law Podcast
Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck
4.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Listeners who are tired of listening to just Professors Vladeck and Chesney on this show can take heart! This week they are joined by special guest Matt Tait, better known online as Pwn All the Things. Matt’s presence leads to an extended discussion of the Shadowbrokers dump of exploits allegedly stolen from NSA, the US government’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process, and much more. Meanwhile, there’s a lot happening in the realm of immigration, with a denial of cert regarding a key Third Circuit case (Castro) and the first publicly-reported deportation in a DACA situation. Steve and Bobby also take note that the SOF mission in Uganda–hunting Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army for the past five years, and setting off important War Powers Resolution issues early on–recently came to an end. Finally: if you wondered which team Steve roots for in the English Premier League, you have to listen all the way through till the end.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 13 of the National Security Law podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. |
| 0:09.0 | Today is Wednesday, April 19th. I'm Bobby Chesney. |
| 0:12.3 | And I'm Steve Vladik and Bobby for episode 13. We have a guest. A guest. A guest. A real live human being who actually talks to us. |
| 0:19.5 | It's not even some student we dragged in out from the hallway. |
| 0:22.5 | Although we tried that. |
| 0:23.5 | This is our backup plan. |
| 0:24.5 | That person got out. |
| 0:25.5 | But then fortunately we found Matt Tate, better known to the Twitterverse, as Pone All |
| 0:30.3 | the Things. |
| 0:31.3 | Matt, welcome to Austin. |
| 0:32.3 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 0:33.6 | We're excited to have you here. |
| 0:34.6 | And listeners later on in the show, we're going to have some discussions about some, |
| 0:39.3 | Pone All the Things type material. |
| 0:41.2 | But what else are we going to talk about today, Steve, besides that? |
| 0:43.5 | First, we're going to talk about how to spell Pohn, which is P-WN, for you, Warcraft and gaming and computer science, illiterate people out there. |
| 0:51.7 | But before that, Bobby, there's some interesting developments in the world of |
| 0:54.7 | immigration law and was otherwise been a relatively quiet week in national security law. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah, I guess we are totally spoiled on this podcast by the rhythm of, I don't know, provocative |
| 1:06.1 | developments that kind of been coming out of Washington during the time we've been doing |
| 1:10.3 | this podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | But lately it's been a little bit quieter, a little more. |
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