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CYBER

Jeff Bezos Is Hacked and Uber Is Capitalism at its Worst

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In a special breaking edition of Cyber Cipher, Joseph Cox sits down with us to go over the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Saudi Arabia. After the break we have one of Motherboard’s newest reporters on the Uber beat, Edward Ongweso Jr., to tell us all about Uber and its troubles. When Uber truly came onto the scene in the mid-2010s it completely up ended an entire, century-old cab industry. And revolutionized the way we pay for taxis, how we hail them and how we interact with them. But behind the thin-veneer of a shiny, billion dollar rideshare company is a host of real problems from employment standards to driver abuses.

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:24.6

When Uber truly came onto the scene in the mid-2010s,

0:28.6

it completely upended an entire century-old cab industry.

0:32.6

Uber has disrupted pretty much everything about the taxi industry in New York.

0:36.6

Drivers say that their wages have gone down. Uber says that it's providing service to has disrupted pretty much everything about the taxi industry in New York.

0:37.6

Drivers say that their wages have gone down. Uber says that it's providing service to outside

0:42.3

of Manhattan where traditionally taxis wouldn't really go. And Uber has also managed to topple

0:47.9

a formidable almost centuries-old institution, the New York City Taxi Pedadalium. And revolutionized the way we pay for taxis, how we hail them and how we interact with them.

0:59.0

Uber is launching a premium helicopter service that promises to get me to the airport in only eight minutes.

1:06.0

But behind the thin veneer of a shiny, multi-billionillion dollar ride share company is a host of real problems

1:11.8

from employment standards to driver abuses.

1:14.9

On this week's cyber, we have one of Motherboard's newest reporters, and he's on the Uberbeat,

1:19.4

Edward Anguoso Jr., to tell us all about the popular company and its troubles.

1:25.5

But first, this week, we have a special edition of Cypher with Joseph Cox to talk about

1:31.1

a late scoop today about Saudi Arabia hacking Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world.

1:38.1

I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

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