What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When a cyberattack knocked the British Library out of commission in October of last year, a nation's researchers, scholars, students, and bookworms were left high and dry. Months later, the library is starting to come back online in limited capacity, but the attack has laid bare just how fragile our digital systems are. Guest: Sam Knight, staff writer at the New Yorker If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.2	Sam Knight is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and he's got some pretty strong feelings about the British Library.
1:02.5	You know, let's be sort of like personal from the get-go. It's just one of my favorite places, right?
1:09.8	The British Library isn't like your normal neighborhood library.
1:13.2	Picture the New York Public Library, but then go bigger.
1:17.8	It's one of the largest libraries in the world, a sprawling red brick building that houses
1:22.1	more than 13 million books and incredible historical artifacts from the Magna Carta to handwritten Beatles lyrics.
1:30.4	But to Sam, it's also homie.
1:33.0	You know, there are 11 different reading rooms, you know, for sort of maps or manuscripts
1:38.3	or social sciences or the humanities or rare books and music, which is my favorite.
1:44.1	And those reading rooms, they have like nice desks, good lighting, good Wi-Fi.
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