Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

Hey how long does it take to get into the Pentagon without a badge? Depends on a...

Yes.

You mean like to rob it?

You have to have a security clearance. No I have a

meaning and I usually have that beautiful blue badge that I just walk up.

You have to go with your two forms of ID. Well if there's not like a tour guide or like horrible children trying to get in it doesn't

take that long as there's not a line.

I'm sorry the line for people having meetings is the same for tourists.

Oh yes oh you get to go through listen no blue badge lady you get to go through the hoi

poloi line now just like all the rest of us and there's a

welcome to your post government experience and there's a special like expedited line for the horrible children.

Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Hackers Heart Patience and Hellfire Edition.

I'm Shane Harris of The Daily Beast.

We're in Washington where it's about as hot as Hellfire right now.

Yeah, I had to go to Georgetown today, a little administrative detail in connection with the class that I'm teaching.

The Handmaidens of power

hand me we'll get to that in the object lesson section but I from the time I left

my car to the time I had to wander around campus a little to find where I was going to the time I got back to my car.

I was drenched in sweat and realized that I'm really ready for summer to be over.

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