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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

Trade Secrets | Investigation

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Once, money made the world go round. Today, it's semiconductors. They're the hardware that enables global communications, nuclear weapons systems and more. Taiwan is the world's largest semiconductor producer - and it's under attack. Vanessa Kirby meets Chad Duffy and CK Chen, cybersecurity experts who defend the industry from catastrophic damage at the hands of malicious hackers. Could YOU become a keyboard warrior? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by James Trew. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Disclaimer, this episode features strong language throughout.

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Incoming transmission.

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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.

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Week by week, mission by mission.

0:16.0

You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.

0:22.0

You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.

0:27.0

What do they know? What are their skills?

0:32.0

And what would you do in that position?

0:36.0

This is True Spies.

0:38.0

If you're able to alter or do anything to a semiconductor, there's hardware attacks.

0:43.0

There's all sorts of things to it where either you can leak data from a semiconductor

0:46.0

so you can steal some of this data or you can put your own malicious things in there.

0:49.0

If you knew where the weaknesses were in these things to interrupt the processing on these devices,

0:54.0

then I think that would cause untold mayhem.

0:58.0

This is True Spies.

1:00.0

Episode 59. Trade Secrets.

1:10.0

I would definitely not feel safe travel in Hong Kong.

1:12.0

I pretty much guarantee that if I were to go somewhere in China,

1:14.0

like you would not hear from me again.

1:17.0

We don't want to alarm you, but whatever platform you're using to listen to this episode of True Spies

1:23.0

has probably been compromised.

1:27.0

All prevention is going to fail at some point.

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