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How Drug Cartels Do Cybersecurity

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The many Mexican cartels of the last few decades have developed into what the US government sees as a not only criminal but a geopolitical enemy, joining the ranks of the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Russian hackers. This means the full force of American surveillance has been aimed at groups like Los Zetas, or the Sinaloa Cartel once-led by the infamous El Chapo. But when it comes to hackers and cybersecurity, there isn’t a lot of talk on how the cartels view their own online safety, so today we’re talking to VICE News Reporter Keegan Hamilton who has intimately covered the cartels from inside Mexico.Trust me this man has a lot of guts and he’s on the show to chat with me this week.

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0:00.0

The United States has got the code it's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

The eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.4

The many Mexican cartels of the last few decades have developed into what the U.S.

0:28.6

government sees as not only criminal but geopolitical enemies, joining the ranks of the Taliban,

0:34.1

ISIS, al-Qaeda, Russian hackers, etc.

0:39.3

Which means the full force of American surveillance has been aimed at groups like Los Zetas or the Sinaloa cartel, once led by the

0:44.6

infamous El Chapo. They call him El Chapo, or Shorty for his small 5-foot-6 frame. But his

0:52.2

legend is enormous. But when it comes to hackers and cybersecurity,

0:57.0

there isn't a lot of talk on how cartels view their own online safety. So today we're talking to

1:01.8

Vice News reporter Keegan Hamilton, who has intimately covered the cartels from inside Mexico.

1:07.3

Trust me, this man has a lot of guts, and he's on the show to chat with us this week. I'm Ben

1:12.2

Maku, and this is Cyber. So Kegan, thank you for coming to Cyber to talk about cartels,

1:24.5

something we haven't done before on the show. Pleasure to be here.

1:27.7

Excited to have this conversation.

1:29.7

So you're well known for doing some very scary shit across Mexico,

1:34.4

dealing with some of the more violent individuals there that have been involved with several

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