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Is America Ready for a Full-Blown Cyberwar? with Nicole Perlroth, Michael Schmidt & Lt. Col. Vindman

Is America Ready for a Full-Blown Cyberwar? with Nicole Perlroth, Michael Schmidt & Lt. Col. Vindman

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Everything, everywhere, all at once — but not the movie. This
is how cybersecurity experts describe a scenario where a foreign
adversary shuts off critical infrastructure, like oil pipelines,
water networks, ports, and electric grids, all over the country.
The terrifying truth is that China has already hacked into our
critical infrastructure. They’re “living off the land” and could
conceivably attack whenever is most convenient. What’s worse? Our
political leaders are defunding America’s cybersecurity efforts. In
order to dig in deeper, Kara talks to Nicole Perlroth, Michael
Schmidt, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, (Ret.) Nicole
Perlroth spent a decade as the lead cybersecurity reporter at The
New York Times, before going inside the tent and joining the
advisory board of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Cyber Task Force. She
is a founding partner at Silverbuckshot Ventures and the host and
producer of To Catch a Thief, a new podcast on China’s rise
to cyber dominance. Michael Schmidt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of the
best-selling book Donald Trump v. The United States. He’s also the
executive producer and co-creator of the Netflix series Zero Day, a
political thriller about a devastating cyberattack on the U.S. Lt.
Col. Alexander Vindman is the former director of European Affairs
for the National Security Council. Vindman was a key witness during
President Trump’s first impeachment and testified about Trump’s
infamous phone call with President Zelensky of Ukraine. He is a
senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute and the
author of The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About
Russia and Betrayed Ukraine. Questions? Comments? Email us at
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