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welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday, July 28th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, how a task force prevented the COVID-19 vaccines from being hacked, because yes, that was a real and valid concern. Plus, the sometimes controversial history of timekeeping at the Olympics

and the AI-based innovations introduced this year. And how the garbage industry is a lucrative one

in the U.S. because, of course. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Over the last year, I've covered the stories of a number of unlikely companies that found

themselves playing a possible role in the supply chain or cold chain for the COVID

vaccines as they developed. Like the San Diego company that sells saponins to root beer and

slurpy manufacturers and was being considered as a supplier for the adjuvant in Novavax.

Or the brief period of time when some health care centers were maybe going to buy up

Dippendots proprietary ultra-cold freezers to keep the Pfizer vaccines cold enough.

Links to both of those episodes in the show notes if you missed them.

Those two companies are relatively large, but there are a lot of other smaller companies

who are among the only producers of certain key elements of the leading vaccines.

And one thing a lot of those small companies tend not to have,

cybersecurity. Enter the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or SISA's

COVID-19 task force. They were charged with assisting with security for the 30 major players

involved in Operation Warp Speed,

but the team quickly realized it wouldn't be just 30 companies. Each of those companies

...