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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the mysterious universe, season 29, episode 2. |
0:26.4 | Coming up on the show, we've got French phone calls from the dead, reincarnating in the |
0:30.3 | enchanted zone and how the failure of the NSA created a cyber pandemic. |
0:36.3 | I'm Benjamin Grundy-Johnny-Zaron-Right. |
0:38.0 | What do you mean by a cyber pandemic? |
0:40.2 | Well, it's like a viral pandemic in that it spreads and infects targets across the entire |
0:47.2 | world at an incredibly rapid pace. |
0:50.2 | And this is all from this brand new book that came out from James Bamford, which I'm |
0:53.9 | just completely blown away by. |
0:56.4 | I started reading it yesterday and thought this will be great for the show. |
1:00.2 | And then I just glanced at how big it was on my Kindle and say 726 pages. |
1:05.2 | No! |
1:06.2 | Great for the show. |
1:08.4 | So I've covered just some of the first stories and intrigue that he includes in this. |
1:14.5 | It's called Spy Fail, Foreign Spies, Moll Sabotours and the Collapse of America's |
1:19.8 | counterintelligence. |
1:22.0 | And Bamford lays out this argument through just incredible storytelling that the intelligence |
1:27.8 | services in the United States, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA have been unimaginably incompetent |
1:36.2 | over the last decade or more. |
1:39.0 | And it's led to the rise of China. |
1:41.9 | It's led to cyber pandemics, which I'm going to get into. |
1:45.6 | It's led to obviously massive amounts of espionage, huge stealing of IP and technology. |
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