Hacking | What’s in the Blue Box? | 1

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hackers: the criminals who prey on our digital lives. Today they steal credit cards and personal information, or even commit acts of cyber-terrorism. But in the early days, hackers were largely seen as harmless pranksters. And it wasn’t computers they were initially interested in, but phones -- which they hacked with a mysterious device called the Blue Box.

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0:14.4	Download the Wundery app in your Apple or Google Play
0:17.2	mobile app store today.
0:18.6	It's March 9th, 2016, Brooklyn, New York.
0:31.5	Hillary Clinton campaigned Chairman John Podesta.
0:34.4	Weaves his way through a maze of cubicles in the campaign
0:37.6	headquarters, as his assistant struggles to keep up.
0:41.4	Podesta is 67 years old with close crop gray hair and hollow
0:45.2	cheeks, and he's not having a good day.
0:48.3	The night before, Clinton lost the Michigan primary to Vermont
0:51.6	Senator Bernie Sanders in a giant upset.
0:54.4	Get the latest poll numbers from Florida to the candidate,
0:56.8	please.
0:57.6	And where are the polls from North Carolina?
0:59.5	They were supposed to be on my desk this morning.
1:01.2	I have a call in about the North Carolina polls.
1:03.4	Also, you got an email from Gmail security.
1:07.4	Someone was trying to access your account from the Ukraine.
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