Dan Patterson
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
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we will see a financial motivation.
We will see um a uh motivation to target individuals at a company, executives and uh directors at companies.
And often it is to when it's preceding a cyber attack, it is to create a lot of noise around that cyber attack, to create a lot of um
Uh instead of a an organic discussion with cybersecurity researchers who might be able to uh quickly find and patch holes, the more noisy the information environment is, the more polarized it is, the harder it is to congeal um uh a community to respond to it.
And if you have a company that's pulled into it, all of a sudden this company has to deploy their institutions.
Policies and it just creates a lot of chaos.
It's like a one-two punch.
They're on defense.
Yeah,
We see this around data centers a ton right now.
Um You think that's one of the reasons
Oh, I know.
I mean, I know it.
There is organic opposition to data centers, but they are many of these bots are targeting local communities.
Just like you're describing, Leo, small towns, they will target public figures in those towns, local politicians, local TV anchors.
They'll target these people just like you said.
You know, Owen, you you made a joke ago uh a few minutes ago about, you know, laying off all the uh
the Kremlin uh human workers and replacing them with bots.
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