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Cybersecurity Threats: The Looming Cyber 9/11? #shorts
Sep 14, 2025
A cyber attack could shock the US like 9/11, shaking people out of their day-to-day lives. While a cyber 9/11 has not yet happened, one day it may occur. Leadership is needed to prevent it. #cybersecurity #cyberattack
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I don't believe that we have yet had in
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this country the cyber 911. We will have
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it.
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Yeah. So, let me ask different questions
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about Salt Typhoon and Vault Typhoon.
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So, Salt Typhoon is this uh group of
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Chinese hackers that has infected all of
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our telecommunications perhaps to the
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point where every single American cell
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phone was hacked or a version of that.
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The obvious questions when you talk
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about going on offense, does the US
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government even know what to target and
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where to target and who they are? And
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how do you go on offense? The crucial
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question about this and create
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deterrence rather than escalation.
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Yeah, let's dispense with the idea that
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there's any deterrence now on cyber
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threats. There is no one sitting in
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Beijing or in Moscow being like, I
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wonder what the Americans will do if I
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go into every single cell phone in the
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in the country. They know what we'll do.
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There's stuff that happens in the secret
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squirrel corners of our government. But
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in terms of what we can say to the
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American people, we are doing to respond
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to this. I I would say some parts of our
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community have largely been what at the
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Pentagon we say admiring the problem,
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right? Like looking at it and talking
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about it. Oh my god, it's amazing. But
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what do we do about it? And it's
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difficult. I admit it is difficult. Um
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as someone who did military planning at
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the Pentagon, we don't have good
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doctrine on this. This is the kind of of
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complexity that we have not sufficiently
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worked through.
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And you're jumping to a hypothetical
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attack on critical infrastructure, which
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is what Bolt Typhoon is, which is a
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separate set of Chinese hackers that
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have burrowed into our critical
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infrastructure. But do you see a
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difference between hacking into our
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phones and causing physical damage?
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For sure. I mean, with anything, it's
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like I don't believe that we have yet in
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this country the cyber 911.
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We will have it. We've had a lot of
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things that you're mentioning that a lot
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of insiders have heard about. Salt
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typhoon. And I I guarantee you most
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Americans don't know what Salt Typhoon
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is and what it actually did in terms of
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access to every American phone
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potentially. But one day, you know, I I
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hope it never comes, but I believe
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especially with AI, we're going to see a
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cyber attack that is so shocking and so
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dramatic that it shakes us out of our
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day-to-day just like 9/11 did. and
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suddenly Americans are talking about
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cyber threats in a way that we haven't
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before. I don't want to get there. I
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want to prevent that. Um, and that's
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where I think the responsibility of
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leadership comes
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