Hacking | What’s in the Blue Box? | S46-E1
American Innovations
Wondery
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 45 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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| 0:25.1 | app store today. It's March 9th, 2016, Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:39.0 | Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Pedesta |
| 0:41.9 | weaves his way through a maze of cubicles in the campaign |
| 0:45.0 | headquarters as his assistant struggles to keep up. |
| 0:49.2 | Pedesta is 67 years old with close-cropped gray hair and hollow cheeks and he's not having a good day. |
| 0:55.8 | The night before, Clinton lost Michigan primary to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in a giant |
| 1:01.1 | upset. |
| 1:02.1 | Get the latest poll numbers from Florida to the candidate please. |
| 1:05.2 | And where are the polls from North Carolina? |
| 1:07.0 | They were supposed to be on my desk this morning. |
| 1:08.7 | I have a call in about the North Carolina polls. |
| 1:10.9 | Also, you got an email from Gmail security someone was trying to access your account |
| 1:16.3 | from the Ukraine they suggest you change your password immediately do you want me |
| 1:20.4 | to take care of that? Pedestus slows down, thinking. |
| 1:24.2 | There have been reports that Russia has been interfering with the election, |
| 1:27.6 | so it's plausible that someone really did try to access his account. |
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