The Shadow Brokers (Part One: Auction)
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 190 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Many of the programs this person or group released appeared to be legitimate cyber-weapons, which had been developed by U.S. intelligence. Despite the audaciousness of their posts - which became more immature and unhinged as time went on - the files they released seemed to have come directly from an NSA server.
A leak of this magnitude had never been seen before, and the cyber-intel community struggled to stop the bleeding. But over the next several months, the Shadow Brokers would continue to wage a one-sided campaign against their sworn enemy: a secretive branch of the NSA nicknamed the "Equation Group"...
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| 0:00.0 | Think back to where you were a little over three years ago, in August of 2016. |
| 0:12.2 | The 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro had just wrapped up. |
| 0:17.8 | San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was making headlines for kneeling during |
| 0:23.0 | the National Anthem. |
| 0:24.6 | The United Kingdom was trying to decide how best to handle Brexit, with Prime Minister |
| 0:30.0 | David Cameron resigning the month prior and long time home secretary Theresa May taking |
| 0:35.2 | over. |
| 0:36.2 | And, of course, there was the U.S. presidential election, which was still months away, |
| 0:42.4 | but dominating news headlines everywhere. |
| 0:45.2 | In July of 2016, one of America's two established political parties, the Democratic National Committee, |
| 0:53.3 | known as the DNC, had been hacked. |
| 0:56.6 | This hack remains a hot button issue today, over three years later, but I won't discuss |
| 1:02.4 | the politics of it. |
| 1:04.0 | Rather, the underlying nature of the story, which was the hack itself. |
| 1:08.6 | This hack had brought the topic of cybersecurity and cyber intelligence to the forefront of global |
| 1:14.2 | politics. |
| 1:15.2 | But the discussions only ever really scratched the surface of the issue, with liberal and |
| 1:20.2 | conservative media figures alike, focusing solely on how it affected the current political |
| 1:25.4 | climate. |
| 1:26.6 | This was the environment of the world on August 27, 2016, when a police raid was taking |
| 1:33.4 | place in Glen Burnie, Maryland, a suburb on the outskirts of Baltimore. |
| 1:38.3 | That Saturday, dozens of FBI agents, wearing dark tactical uniforms and armed with a variety |
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