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Cyber Warfare: Are We Prepared for the Next Crisis?
Sep 29, 2024
Join former CIA operative Mike Baker as we explore the rising threat of cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure. Discover the vulnerabilities in our technology and how global conflicts could unfold, impacting our everyday lives. Are we ready for what lies ahead? #CyberWarfare #NationalSecurity #TechThreats #MikeBaker #InfrastructureSecurity #CyberAttacks #USPreparedness #FutureOfTechnology #GovernmentAction #CriticalInfrastructure
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just last week you had all those pagers
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the thousands of walkie-talkies that
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were used as explosives on Hezbollah
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members in Lebanon and what is widely
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believed to be a coordinated attack by
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Israel so where does America stand in
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this Tech race with other countries like
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China here to give us his insights we
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have former CIA operative Mike Baker
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back on the show Mike good to have you
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on as always good thank you very much I
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appreciate you so the Biden
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Administration as you know they're
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cracking down on cars made in China
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because of the software uh could
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possibly pose potential National
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Security threats saying hey if foreign
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adversaries have made the software they
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can surveil they can control the cars
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remotely it's I don't know if you saw it
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Mike that movie Leave the World Behind
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where all the Teslas start crashing at
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the same time is something like that
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actually
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possible it is uh you know from a
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technology perspective yes it's it's a
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little bit like it's an expanded version
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of uh taking control of your smart
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appliances and and honestly whether
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that's your heating system or your
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refrigerator whatever it may be so the
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vehicle is is another element in that
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look the biggest problem we face and and
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I know there's a lot of attention on the
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pager and the handheld radio
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walkie-talkie operations that took place
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in Lebanon that was more of a physical
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issue that was physical control of
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devices and they were able to implant
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explosives the bigger issue that the us
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and our allies face is the the Cyber
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attack the large scale Cyber attack and
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for years and years uh the countries
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with the resources and motivation that
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basically is China and Russia and Iran
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uh have been probing and testing and
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mapping out our critical
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infrastructure because in the future if
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there is a global conflict you can count
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on the fact that those Nations or
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whomever is involved will take off the
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shelf A playbook that they've created
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already that shows the weaknesses in our
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critical infrastructure our water
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treatment facilities Transportation fuel
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movement trains uh the electrical grid
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and that's will be that will be part of
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the global conflict they will bring the
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pain directly to the Homeland by
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shutting down systems that's the that's
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the concept and are we ready for that it
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will be a different Battlefield are we
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ready for that I keep thinking about you
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know you and I were talking just last
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week about the pagers the walkie-talkies
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are we ready for this new era of
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technological Warfare and the cyber
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attacks that that you're warning about
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well the problem is that if you just
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take our power grid right and imagine if
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the power goes down for for weeks weeks
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months at a time right what's not moving
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well Pharmaceuticals aren't moving
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food's not moving fuel's not moving uh
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you don't have water you don't have
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power obviously can't get cash out there
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are a myriad of problems that we're
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looking at the problem is if you just
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look at the power grid it was never
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built to withstand a terrorist attack
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much less a Cyber attack and so our
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eastn West and Texas grids are
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unfortunately very unprepared for
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something like this I was just I was
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going to say I lived through when the
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Texas grid went down uh in the the
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winter of what was that 2021 uh and it
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not that it was a Cyber attack but it
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was awful um to all the points that that
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you just made what new protections do
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you want to see put in place um by
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Congress the government to fortify us
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here well look they they they're aware
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of the issue uh but unfortunately much
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like other issues up on Capitol Hill
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things move extremely slowly so yes
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they've been aware of it but you know
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the our our our defense imposture needs
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to be much more robust look we do we do
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the same thing do we map out on the
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offensive side do we map out and and
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understand what the the weaknesses are
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uh well of course we do and we better
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hope that we do and we better hope that
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we're the best at it but on the
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defensive side I think Congress needs to
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be much more proactive and and
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understand where we are with this
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because you know again whether it's
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water treatment whether it's power
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whether it's it's our transportation
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systems that may be susceptible uh the
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movement of train traffic around the
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country uh we are still behind the curve
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yeah we need to identify what our
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vulnerabilities are here uh Mike Baker
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always good to have you thank you for
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joining me and I'd be remiss not to say
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