Not Big Spying. Just Super Micro Spying! - DTNS 3967
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Bloomberg’s sources say that in 2010, the US Department of Defense found that Supermicro servers in unclassified networks were sending network data, including a partial map of the unclassified network, to China. Undetectable countermeasures were put in place and the attack was allowed to run in order to determine its aim. So What Did they find?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | If you ever wondered how you'd plan a mission to space. |
| 0:37.0 | Or how we could make social media a force for good. |
| 0:41.0 | Join me, Alice Roberts, professor of public engagement in science |
| 0:45.0 | at the University of Birmingham as I throw open the doors |
| 0:48.0 | to the curiosity vault in search of answers |
| 0:50.0 | to the biggest questions facing science and society today. |
| 0:55.0 | Grab your thinking caps and follow the curiosity vault |
| 0:58.0 | from the University of Birmingham now. |
| 1:05.0 | Coming up on DTNS, Microsoft thinks all countries |
| 1:08.0 | should make Google and Facebook pay for news. |
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