The Hackers of Siberia
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Since the time of the Tsars intellectuals were banished to the vast inhospitable lands of Siberia. And so was created an astonishing pool of creativity and talent. Generations of such people have been perfecting their skills here ever since. These days the reputation of Russian hackers has reached every corner of the world and Siberian hackers are the best. Are these hackers likely to work for the Russian state? Or is Silicon valley a place to aspire to? Olga Smirnova finds out how these talented young people see their future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the |
| 0:05.0 | documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our |
| 0:09.8 | presenters and reporters across the world. |
| 0:13.0 | If you have the time, please rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave us a comment. |
| 0:18.1 | Let us know what you think. |
| 0:22.3 | If a shop door opens one way, you have to ask yourself. |
| 0:25.6 | What if I try to open it the other way? |
| 0:28.0 | You need to think about how to get around problems or do things in a different way. And you have to be very hard working, |
| 0:37.0 | almost fanatical about your work. |
| 0:39.0 | You have to be able to deal with masses of information and you have to just |
| 0:45.3 | extract what you need from it, what is most useful, not everything. That's |
| 0:51.1 | important for detecting mistakes and anything which is unclear in other people's code. |
| 0:57.0 | Oleg Broslavsky and Sasha Murzine are two Russian hackers in the Siberian city of Tomsk, 42 long hours of travel by train from Moscow. |
| 1:08.0 | After all the allegations following the US presidential elections that Russian hackers interfere the West has pointed fingers at |
| 1:15.0 | at the West has pointed fingers at hackers in the |
| 1:19.0 | hackers in the former Soviet Union. |
| 1:21.0 | And Siberian hackers are the best. |
| 1:25.0 | Oleg and Sasha are both students, both 23. |
| 1:29.0 | Both members of the perfectly legal Cy Bea's hacking team from Tomsk University, the oldest |
| 1:36.5 | university in Siberia where they study. |
| 1:39.2 | Cybez is not so much a team as a community. |
| 1:44.7 | We have a lot of people who hang around with us. |
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