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The War in Your Living Room

The War in Your Living Room

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler vor 4 Jahren

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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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From the crisis in American democracy to the collapse of the Middle East’s petrochemical oligarchies, this is your guide to the dangers that mass media isn’t covering.

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The digital Utopia we were promised has given us a desperately
vulnerable world where we depend on a global internet with a
billion badly-protected backdoors. Today’s cyber-war battlegrounds
aren’t on bank servers or Government databases. They’re in your
smart fridges, doorbells and security cameras. Arthur Snell traces
a path from the first-ever co-ordinated cyber-attack (on Estonia in
2007) to a world of invisible weapons and relentless probing
conflict – where hostile governments can target your own phone
anywhere on earth. How do you defend democratic societies when
everything has become a computer? Want to support us, get
episodes early and extra content? Support us on Patreon and back us
from just £3 per month now. “As soon as we discover something
convenient for our lives, we become dependent on it… We’re now
as dependent on connectivity as we are on electricity.”
– Mikko Hypponen “Most people just don’t understand how much
their devices leak about them… We are all carrying tracking
devices with us.” – Eva Galperin “You can’t see a cyber weapon
on a military parade ground… Countries are putting billions
into these weapons and nobody knows about them.” – Mikko
Hypponen “Is it really wise for any country to establish a Νational
Registry of Persons, and keep most of your personal data in one
place?” – Ciaran Martin “We are turning everything into a
computer… If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable.” – Mikko Hypponen
DOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell, and
produced by Robin Leeburn – with assistant production from Jacob
Archbold. Theme tune and original music by Paul Hartnoll. The group
editor is Andrew Harrison. DOOMSDAY WATCH is a Podmasters
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