Erika Beras
speaker
1,065 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Erika Beras’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just a tibia.
But he was able to use that to dig up the rest of the bones.
Basically, he rummaged around this public library of suspected malware until he found it.
And eventually, he was able to put together the pieces of the skeleton that is Fast 16.
But still, when he tried to reverse engineer it to understand what its secret mission was, he couldn't.
And I'm Erika Barris.
Today on the show, nothing to see here.
Jags, said researcher, was pretty blocked.
But he knew he had to keep at it.
Because he had a hunch that Fast 16 might reveal important details about that invisible side of the conflicts we read about every day.
Like back when security researchers discovered a cyber sabotage operation that blew everyone's mind.
It was called Stuxnet.
What had been happening was that Israel and the U.S., allegedly, had used cyber weapons to destroy real-world physical objects.
They did this by managing to get a thumb drive into Iran and inserting malware into the computer network at the heart of their uranium enrichment program, the system that controlled the centrifuges.
All in all, Stuxnet reportedly destroyed a fifth of all the centrifuges that Iran was using.
It led to nuclear scientists getting fired.
And most importantly, it is widely believed to have slowed down Iran's nuclear program.
Just a tibia.
So year after year, Jags remained committed to figuring out his white whale, figuring out the puzzle of Fast 16.
Who made it?
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