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Rational Security

The "Beam Me Up" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

At long last, the Director of National Intelligence releases its findings about UFOs. The Trump Organization and its chief financial officers are accused of a 15-year tax fraud scheme. And Russian hackers are at it again, this time launching possibly the largest ransomware attack as well as a strike against the Republican National Committee. 

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0:00.0

Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past

0:12.4

it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic, book your train

0:21.6

journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk, AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel.

0:30.3

So Ben, you look like you're like coming to us live from, it's not a train car, but it's

0:38.4

like a wood paneled room with a light, it could be a hotel. It's a hotel. It is a hotel.

0:45.3

It is a hotel room in New York City of the type that only New York has these kind of old

0:53.0

deco era, dingy, very small hotel rooms that get treated as quaint and therefore, you know,

1:04.3

desirable. Actually, it's not really quaint. You're really selling it. It's just a shitty hotel room.

1:12.9

That's why I love this trend in New York of having deliberately tiny hotel rooms, like there's

1:19.7

that one that you have to share a bathroom. It's basically like a youth hostel, but it's designed

1:26.1

to look really hip and environmentally friendly. Wow, hopefully you have a toilet.

1:31.9

This one, you know, is kind of first half of the of the century and they've filled it with, you know,

1:40.8

unattractive mid-century modern furniture. I like, I love mid-century modern furniture,

1:46.4

but this stuff is not here. I'm showing, I'm showing you the wardrobe here.

1:54.5

My eyes have seen enough. And, you know, and it's like, it's a good schick, but if the question is,

2:01.6

do I recommend it? The answer is no. Your little sleeper cabin on the Amtrak was much nicer.

2:09.3

Oh, yeah, yeah.

2:15.8

Hello and welcome to rational security. Be me up edition.

2:21.0

The addition that Shane has been waiting for. Oh my goodness.

2:26.4

For so long. For so long. This feels like a victory lap. It feels like a homecoming.

2:33.5

It's like, it's like Christmas and the fourth of July.

2:36.8

It just was the fourth of July.

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