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  • Is America Still Number One At Hacking?

    It used to be that American hackers and the NSA were the unquestionable world’s best. Following the many revelations from the Snowden leaks, it became clear the U.S. government had not only violated the civil liberties of American citizens, but the NSA had done an excellent job hacking, well, everything. It hacked the phones of world leaders (including key allies) and made major geopolitical rivals China and Russia very nervous.


    But, like everything else in the world, American hegemony in cyberspace has quickly faded as the proverbial American empire looks like it's in quick decline for a variety of obvious reasons. And when it comes to hacking powers across the world, it’s been widely reported that everyone from China to private mercenaries have caught up to the hacking skills of American hackers. 


    So for our Independence Day edition of CYBER, Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchiarrai and host Ben Makuch are discussing America’s standing among the world powers of cyberspace.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min
  • Huawei's Chief Security Officer on 5G and Government Spying
    The US government is in a race with China to provide the world with 5G networks. Some call it the new arms race, as both Washington and Beijing go from country to country trying to negotiate for its companies to provide the future of the internet’s architecture. Part of that has been Trump himself slagging Huawei and undermining the Chinese company as national security risk: The allegation being the company would give the Chinese government a mainline into spying on countries across the world. While some experts agree those fears are well founded, some of the bravade is undoubtedly part of the game of geopolitics. Today on the show we have Andy Purdy, Chief Security Officer for Huawei Technologies USA, to discuss the concerns around the company’s technologies.

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    51 min
  • Is Anonymous Really Back?
    Back in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street protests, a certain hacktivist collective truly came into its own. The years since Anonymous exploded in popularity and even became the constant pop culture reference point to all hacktivism or even, just hackers. But as we’ve discussed on the show, lately, it kind of seems to have disappeared. Until the latest Black Lives Matter protests seems to have kicked it back into the headlines. I got Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierrai on the show to tell us more.

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    32 min
  • It's Now the Military Industrial Complex Versus Protestors

    Well, it’s a hell of a time to be alive. After a brutalizing pandemic, fit with stay at home orders and government indecision, something else happened. The cold blooded murder of unarmed black man George Floyd by a white cop in Minneapolis has set off unprecedent protests demanding racial equality and an end to police violence against people of color.

    But instead of quelling these protests with actionable change, it appears the government is just spying on them. We’ve got evidence that now the infamous Military Industrial Complex and its surveillance superpowers are being deployed against protests across the country.

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    24 min
  • Cyber Show June 2020

    Cyberworks - Cyber Show June 2020


    Track Listing:

    1. Jolloff - Elaquent - Forever is a Pretty Long Time

    2. Scrumus - Letherette - Brown Lounge, Vol. 5

    3. Winds (Ready to Fly) - Preach Jacobs Feat.Georgia Anne Muldrow - Winds (Ready to Fly)

    4. Far Beyond feat. Goapele & Zyme - Del the Funky Homosapien & Amp Live - Gate 13

    5. Revival - Young RJ x Mega Ran - 2 Hands Up

    6. Temptations (Glenn Astro Interpretation) - Jitwam - Honeycomb Remixes

    7. What You Want (Taylormade) - Ty Feat.Taylor McFerrin, Joy Jones & Jason Yarde - Closer

    8. Lamborarri - Suff Daddy - Pompette

    9. Dem Mans - ZND - No Beat Left Behind

    10. Magnam Ostium - Pep Love Feat.Xiomara - Magnam Ostium

    11. I Can't Tell - Count Bass D - CBD

    12. Geeda Speaks Interlude I - Roddy Rod - BluntPark Sessions 1.2

    13. From Far Away - Miroslav Vitous - Magical Shepherd

    14. Julie Mangos - Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music

    15. Summoning The Monkey God - The Sorcerers - In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey God

    16. The Du-Rites: "Pigeon Spikes" - J-Zone - Pigeon Spikes

    17. We've Landed - Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice

    18. Hanging By A Thread - The Heliocentrics - Infinity Of Now

    19. Conexão - Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad Feat.João Donato - Jazz Is Dead 001

    20. Aperture - Damu The Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic - Ocean Bridges

    21. Tony Sendo - Bluestaeb & S. Fidelity - Underground Canopy

    22. You Find That I've Got It - Kaidi Tatham - You Find That I Got It/Mjuvi

    23. Scared To Death - Kaytranada - Bubba

    24. Second Gear - Mike Huckaby - Shifting Gear EP

    25. Mighty Tribe - Andres - Andres IV

    26. Cosmic Disco - Dub Disco Band - NYC Disco

    27. Pacific Times - Baba Stiltz - A Slice of Heaven EP

    28. Bolide (Lone Remix) - Kllo - Bolide Remix

    29. Closer To Mars - Nu Era - Evolve

    30. How Sway - Thundercat - It Is What It Is

    31. Twinkerbelly - The Abstract Eye - Cool Warm Divine EP

    32. Tour de France (Etape 1) - Kraftwerk - Tour de France


    Mixed By Denz & Biz For Nuwaveradio


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    2 hr 1 min
  • The Privacy Concerns Behind App Based Contact Tracing

    If you’ve been listening to the news, chances are you’ve heard about it incessantly: contact tracing.

    But what is it exactly? And what are the surveillance and privacy issues surrounding it? Will yet another app that tracks your movements really be the key to ending the pandemic?

    Today we got Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierai on the show to tell you everything you need to know about contact tracing.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min
  • The FBI Can Now Search Your Browser History
    Since the dawn of the Patriot Act, a sweeping surveillance bill enacted shortly after 9/11, it’s been both the bane of privacy hawks and the favourite tool of the Intelligence Community. But lately, the Senate, courtesy of Mitch McConnell, helped the IC by giving agencies like the FBI the power to warrantlessly search the browser history of American citizens. That’s terrifying and today we’ve got Motherboard editor/reporter Janus Rose on to breakdown how this happened and what’s next.

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    46 min
  • The Short And Terrifying History Of Modern Surveillance

    On the show, we talk a lot about the state of Orwellian world we’ve found ourselves in: big data, corporate and governmental surveillance. You know, Big Brother.


    But where did it come from? What’s it’s historical context? To answer these questions, we have author and Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Lawrence Cappello on the show who wrote a book called None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age. In it he traces the over 100 year history of how the surveillance state came to be.

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    42 min
  • The Senator Who Believes in UFOs

    In 2017, amidst the backdrop of the Mueller investigation and Russian spy paranoia, the world learned, via a New York Times bombshell, that the Pentagon had a top secret UFO program.


    The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, AATIP for short, had a $22 million dollar black budget and looked into an aerial threat nobody could understand: UFOs. The details were terrifying, US fighter jet pilots regularly came into contact with other worldly flying objects that nobody understood.


    There was mention of alien alloys and dark auras. Sci-fi had become reality. And possibly most striking of all? Highly respected Democratic Senator from Nevada Harry Reid, had been instrumental in the whole project. 


    This week on CYBER Motherboard EIC spoke to Senator Reid, about why he believes in UFOs and why we need to consider them a possible threat worth investigating.

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    34 min

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Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to.…