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ancianita

(36,055 posts)
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 11:11 PM Jul 2019

Mikko Hypponen And the Cyber Arms Race

Hypponen is another important hacker expert who's helped us (besides Alex Stamos), like members of America's Cult of the Dead Cow, our original hacker supergroup that Beto O'Rourke was a founding member of.

This video is considered old, but it's still important, since no one takes time to sit Americans down and let them know what their private and public sector tech people are thinking about.

Since data is now worth more than oil, and wealth is built from it (Thus Snowden in 2013), this is important history for upcoming cyber discussions. It covers how to prioritize hackers and targets, weaponizing software tools, how bitcoin and its mining works, botnets as information miners, etc.

The way he speaks of these things, so common today (exploit, APT, back door, PHBB, zero days, etc) made that time seem so innocent.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikko_Hyppönen
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