How the CIA broke the world’s encryption

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben tell some stories about the New Hampshire primary in 2008, walk through a report on a decades-long CIA/German effort to crack encrypted communications, talk through several major data breaches, and explain why the QAnon conspiracy theory is a national security issue. Then they cover: good news from Sudan, North Korea’s nukes, a dustup between the US and the Philippines, the Wall Street Journal’s attempt to Swift Boat Mayor Pete, and Bernie Sanders' foreign policy doctrine and how the 2020 candidates differ. Then former White House Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain joins to talk about efforts to contain the Coronavirus.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Pazza the World, I'm Tommy Vitor.
0:12.6	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.6	Then welcome back from Budapest.
0:15.4	Here I am.
0:16.4	We miss you.
0:17.4	We're doing our best to fuck up democracy while you were gone.
0:20.1	Speaking of which, we are recording that as the first exit polls start to dribble in
0:24.9	the New Hampshire primary, which is bringing back some of the worst memories of our good
0:30.6	and bad political career.
0:32.2	I believe we win Iowa.
0:34.6	We all hang out for a day or two and then they tell me get your ass to headquarters because
0:38.3	you need you to do like.
0:39.3	I was already in New Mckenne, Rapid Response.
0:41.0	You're in New Hampshire watching this.
0:42.8	I was in New Hampshire for the Out of Cockles.
0:46.2	How did that go?
0:47.2	Wasn't your New Hampshire election I like?
0:49.0	Well first of all, I was saying in supporter housing, remember that?
0:52.8	With a woman who had me in a room full of, she collected like ships and bottles.
0:56.3	Okay.
0:57.3	So it's got to be true.
0:58.3	You're very new in New England.
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