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CYBER

The Base

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

CYBER host Ben Makuch and reporter Mack Lamoureux recently spent months embedded on in a secretive social network called “The Base," which is used by American neo-Nazis to organize real-life meetups.

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0:00.0

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

0:11.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:25.7

Hi, I'm Jason Kebler, editor-in-chief of Motherboard.

0:29.0

And this is Cyber, our podcast about hacking.

0:32.5

This week, our guest is National Security reporter Ben Makou,

0:36.2

who you might know as the normal host of this show.

0:39.0

Ben and Vice Canada reporter Mack Lamarrow recently spent months embedded in a secret neo-Nazi social

0:44.5

network called The Base.

0:46.0

A horrifying scene in Charlottesville as this car plowed into a crowd of people, the driver,

0:51.1

then backing up and witnesses say dragging at least one person.

0:56.0

In the last few years, there's been a lot of reporting about how the election of Donald Trump

1:00.3

has emboldened the far right and violent groups online and in real life.

1:04.8

But often we're talking about hateful memes or well-publicized rallies.

1:09.3

The base, meanwhile, isn't focused on memes.

1:12.3

As Ben explains, they're focused on meeting up and carrying out violent acts in the real

1:16.7

world.

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