Spy Terms of the Internyet

Note to Self

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🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Russian spy tactics have gotten an upgrade since the Cold War. This week how they work now: bad actors, active measures, advanced persistent threats. Cyberwar has its own vocabulary. So we got ourselves a tutor.

Join Manoush and information warfare expert Molly McKew, who puts the fun in fundamental assault on democracy.

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0:00.0	The cyber threat is going to get worse before it gets better.
0:09.7	They engaged in a multifaceted, campaigned, undermined our democracy.
0:14.2	A variety of different attacks.
0:15.8	I never wanted to count it.
0:16.9	We can, the possibilities of American power in the world.
0:19.8	An honor for a Russian tool.
0:21.6	We need to drill down to this.
0:23.0	No one happened.
0:24.0	Botnets.
0:24.8	Sad actors are becoming more aggressive.
0:26.8	Fishing tools.
0:28.0	More ingenious and more tenacious.
0:31.4	Sprawling criminal investigations.
0:34.0	Tech company lawyers testifying on Capitol Hill about Russian disinformation.
0:40.0	And Spilingual, getting thrown around like it's 1977 instead of 2017.
0:48.3	I'm Manouche Samarote.
0:49.8	You're a guide to this accelerating world.
0:52.4	And I don't know about you, but I am so not cool with being disinformed.
0:58.4	So note to self, when the situation gets confusing,
1:02.0	break down the terminology.
1:04.1	Take the mystery out of the jargon, the geopolitical jargon.
1:12.1	Last week, we went macro and we looked at the big picture.
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