Learning the lessons of Wannacry, five years on
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Tech Tent speaks to Marcus Hutchins, the British cyber security expert who singlehandedly stopped the Wannacry attack. The BBC's cyber reporter Joe Tidy and the cyber expert Lisa Forte discuss Wannacry's legacy. Also this week why Russians are resorting to medieval memes to express dissent about the war in Ukraine, how Tiktok is transforming Eurovision, and Tony Fadell, inventor of the Ipod reflects on the announcement it's being discontinued.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | TechTent is back. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Zoe Clim and the BBC's technology editor |
| 0:32.3 | and our virtual canvas is super secure this week |
| 0:35.5 | because here with me is the BBC cyber reporter Joe Tidy. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello. |
| 0:40.3 | And expert Lisa Forte from Red Goat Cyber Security. Hello Lisa. |
| 0:45.1 | Hi. Great to be here. |
| 0:46.6 | Producer Tom Singleton is also here. It's like having our very own cyber bodyguards. |
| 0:50.9 | But no, I'm still not going to give you my bank details. |
| 0:54.1 | Coming up, we've got TikTok and Eurovision, we've got medieval memes, |
| 0:57.3 | and I've bought a little piece of technology history into this studio with me, |
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