Trolls, Hackers, Spies: The Cyber Decade

CYBER

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It occurred to us at Motherboard that for this final episode of CYBER in the 2010s we could recount the year in stories that we’ve done. The real scoops, traffic hogs, and think pieces. But then again, this is the decade that changed infosec. This was the decade that made hackers critical players on the world stage, our personal digital information sacred, and our political systems fixed into some strange, social media hellscape.

Since its founding in 2009, Motherboard has seen it all with you.

So on this episode of CYBER, our dear editor-in-chief Jason Koebler and host Ben Makuch will take you through from the beginning of the decade to its end: from Guy Fawkes masks, strings of weaponized code to your brain being manipulated by a Facebook ad.

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.7	It's a unit system.
0:13.1	I know this.
0:15.1	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.3	It tells her everything.
0:19.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.8	Eagle one.
0:22.6	The package is being delivered.
0:24.9	Hello, cyber listeners.
0:27.0	It occurred to me this week that we could recount the year in stories that we've done,
0:31.8	the real scoops and traffic hogs.
0:34.0	But then again, this is the decade that changed Infosec.
0:38.0	This was the decade that made hackers real, our personal digital information sacred,
0:43.2	and our political systems fixed into some social media hellscape.
0:48.3	Since its founding in 2009, Motherboard has seen it all with you.
0:52.7	So, our dear EIC, Jason Kebler and I, will take you through
0:56.9	from the beginning, from Guy Fawks masks, strings of weaponized code, to your brain being manipulated
1:02.8	by a Facebook ad. I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.
1:18.1	So Jason, I have to tell you, it is a strange episode for both of us.
1:19.5	It's here and I like it.
1:20.7	The end of the decade. It's the end of the decade.
1:21.8	But you know what?
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