Hacking the Gibson

Pre-Season Episode 2 - Operation Gunman


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Hacking in the age of typewriters? It happened. This episode is a cold war spy story, a classic clash of the titans, the United States of America vs United Soviet Socailist Republics. This was one of the earliest public successes of the National Security Agency.

In Operation Gunman we have an event ‘80 that has many things that we recognize today - keyloggers, exfiltration channels, supply chain security, and even a bug bounty (literally). Strict secrecy and clandestine office supply shipments were the order of the day, sorry any martini recipes remain undisclosed.
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Hacking the GibsonBy Hackalope and Ymir