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Gordon Corera

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And it's not entirely clear to me what that means. We'll come to that. Deadly sin number one continues. It's a theme, Gordon. Theme through the series. But here's the thing. He's seeing all this stuff. He's in a job where he's got access. He's decided he wants to...

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

And it's not entirely clear to me what that means. We'll come to that. Deadly sin number one continues. It's a theme, Gordon. Theme through the series. But here's the thing. He's seeing all this stuff. He's in a job where he's got access. He's decided he wants to...

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

blow the whistle or cause damage however we want to put it that's his view so he's he's decided he's going to download this material and it's fascinating how he does it so he starts to copy the files that he has access to from his reading list system which is called heartbeat and what's interesting is he transfers it onto old legacy pc so really old computers left in the office so these are not internet connected in a way you'd normally expect so again that just uh

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

blow the whistle or cause damage however we want to put it that's his view so he's he's decided he's going to download this material and it's fascinating how he does it so he starts to copy the files that he has access to from his reading list system which is called heartbeat and what's interesting is he transfers it onto old legacy pc so really old computers left in the office so these are not internet connected in a way you'd normally expect so again that just uh

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

blow the whistle or cause damage however we want to put it that's his view so he's he's decided he's going to download this material and it's fascinating how he does it so he starts to copy the files that he has access to from his reading list system which is called heartbeat and what's interesting is he transfers it onto old legacy pc so really old computers left in the office so these are not internet connected in a way you'd normally expect so again that just uh

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

stops the trail being clear about what he's doing and stops leaving a digital trail to it. He then takes the material and transferred it onto tiny SD cards. It's really interesting. He doesn't want to use thumb drives, you know, kind of USB flash drives. He wants to use tiny SD cards because one of the reasons is... You can smuggle them out much more easily. He can put them in a sock.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

stops the trail being clear about what he's doing and stops leaving a digital trail to it. He then takes the material and transferred it onto tiny SD cards. It's really interesting. He doesn't want to use thumb drives, you know, kind of USB flash drives. He wants to use tiny SD cards because one of the reasons is... You can smuggle them out much more easily. He can put them in a sock.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

stops the trail being clear about what he's doing and stops leaving a digital trail to it. He then takes the material and transferred it onto tiny SD cards. It's really interesting. He doesn't want to use thumb drives, you know, kind of USB flash drives. He wants to use tiny SD cards because one of the reasons is... You can smuggle them out much more easily. He can put them in a sock.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

They're not going to set off metal detectors because they're so small. I mean, at one point he hides one of the cards in his cheek. You know, they're small enough. You put it in his cheek. So if someone stops him or asks him something, he could just swallow it. The problem is it's very slow transferring this. Anytime they're pretty slow, but on probably old computers and old SD cards.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

They're not going to set off metal detectors because they're so small. I mean, at one point he hides one of the cards in his cheek. You know, they're small enough. You put it in his cheek. So if someone stops him or asks him something, he could just swallow it. The problem is it's very slow transferring this. Anytime they're pretty slow, but on probably old computers and old SD cards.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

They're not going to set off metal detectors because they're so small. I mean, at one point he hides one of the cards in his cheek. You know, they're small enough. You put it in his cheek. So if someone stops him or asks him something, he could just swallow it. The problem is it's very slow transferring this. Anytime they're pretty slow, but on probably old computers and old SD cards.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So he spends hours. hours overnight on the night shift, kind of copying and compressing the files so that you can fit them onto the SD cards. And it sounds like it is literally like those old movies where the spy is trying to steal something.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So he spends hours. hours overnight on the night shift, kind of copying and compressing the files so that you can fit them onto the SD cards. And it sounds like it is literally like those old movies where the spy is trying to steal something.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

So he spends hours. hours overnight on the night shift, kind of copying and compressing the files so that you can fit them onto the SD cards. And it sounds like it is literally like those old movies where the spy is trying to steal something.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

It's like in the original Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise, where you're seeing the bar move across the screen, like 81%, 82%, slowly moving across the screen as he's trying to move those files around. That's the process initially for stealing them. And then he also has got this thing about Rubik's Cubes. And this is, I guess, the thing he loves doing.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

It's like in the original Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise, where you're seeing the bar move across the screen, like 81%, 82%, slowly moving across the screen as he's trying to move those files around. That's the process initially for stealing them. And then he also has got this thing about Rubik's Cubes. And this is, I guess, the thing he loves doing.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

It's like in the original Mission Impossible film with Tom Cruise, where you're seeing the bar move across the screen, like 81%, 82%, slowly moving across the screen as he's trying to move those files around. That's the process initially for stealing them. And then he also has got this thing about Rubik's Cubes. And this is, I guess, the thing he loves doing.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

I find this entirely unsurprising, by the way. It is a bit of a hacker trope, I think, the Rubik's Cube, and he's definitely got it. And so he starts kind of carrying them around the office, and it's quite useful to do that every day because people get used to him carrying them, and they know him as the Rubik's Cube guy.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

I find this entirely unsurprising, by the way. It is a bit of a hacker trope, I think, the Rubik's Cube, and he's definitely got it. And so he starts kind of carrying them around the office, and it's quite useful to do that every day because people get used to him carrying them, and they know him as the Rubik's Cube guy.

The Rest Is Classified
44. The Leak That Changed The World: Stealing State Secrets (Ep 2)

I find this entirely unsurprising, by the way. It is a bit of a hacker trope, I think, the Rubik's Cube, and he's definitely got it. And so he starts kind of carrying them around the office, and it's quite useful to do that every day because people get used to him carrying them, and they know him as the Rubik's Cube guy.