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Gordon Corera

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
552 total appearances

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

And then what he does is he kind of peels off the square on the Rubik's Cube, and he hides the SD cards underneath so that he can just carry them past the armed guards who were there at the door. There's a fair bit of security there. There's armed guards. You've got to scan your badges. There's those kind of airlocked security doors you've got to swipe through.

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

And then what he does is he kind of peels off the square on the Rubik's Cube, and he hides the SD cards underneath so that he can just carry them past the armed guards who were there at the door. There's a fair bit of security there. There's armed guards. You've got to scan your badges. There's those kind of airlocked security doors you've got to swipe through.

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

And then what he does is he kind of peels off the square on the Rubik's Cube, and he hides the SD cards underneath so that he can just carry them past the armed guards who were there at the door. There's a fair bit of security there. There's armed guards. You've got to scan your badges. There's those kind of airlocked security doors you've got to swipe through.

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

But he's able to get this data out, I guess. He understands the system. That's the point.

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

But he's able to get this data out, I guess. He understands the system. That's the point.

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

But he's able to get this data out, I guess. He understands the system. That's the point.

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

People in Britain have done it and they've left them on trains and, you know, made mistakes about it. He takes them home and then he transfers them onto a kind of large storage device and encrypts them. He puts a hood over his head in case there's a camera in his house, you know, classic spy stuff.

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

People in Britain have done it and they've left them on trains and, you know, made mistakes about it. He takes them home and then he transfers them onto a kind of large storage device and encrypts them. He puts a hood over his head in case there's a camera in his house, you know, classic spy stuff.

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

People in Britain have done it and they've left them on trains and, you know, made mistakes about it. He takes them home and then he transfers them onto a kind of large storage device and encrypts them. He puts a hood over his head in case there's a camera in his house, you know, classic spy stuff.

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

Now, what's so interesting is it's not entirely clear how many documents he's able to take, but some accounts are up to 1.5 million. I mean, there are different accounts. There's the smaller figures. But it's astonishing how much. And I guess this is also the reality of the digital world.

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

Now, what's so interesting is it's not entirely clear how many documents he's able to take, but some accounts are up to 1.5 million. I mean, there are different accounts. There's the smaller figures. But it's astonishing how much. And I guess this is also the reality of the digital world.

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

Now, what's so interesting is it's not entirely clear how many documents he's able to take, but some accounts are up to 1.5 million. I mean, there are different accounts. There's the smaller figures. But it's astonishing how much. And I guess this is also the reality of the digital world.

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

Because 50 years ago or 30 years ago, these documents would have been on paper, basically, rather than electronic. You were not going to carry 1.5 million documents out of a secret facility and then hide them in your room at home. Whereas he can do it and stick them on a hard drive. And that has changed dramatically.

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

Because 50 years ago or 30 years ago, these documents would have been on paper, basically, rather than electronic. You were not going to carry 1.5 million documents out of a secret facility and then hide them in your room at home. Whereas he can do it and stick them on a hard drive. And that has changed dramatically.

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

Because 50 years ago or 30 years ago, these documents would have been on paper, basically, rather than electronic. You were not going to carry 1.5 million documents out of a secret facility and then hide them in your room at home. Whereas he can do it and stick them on a hard drive. And that has changed dramatically.

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

you know, intelligence, it's changed security, it's changed what people call the insider threat, it's changed what you can do with spying and stealing secrets now, even though Edward Snowden, as we said, is not a spy, because of the ability to kind of collect large amounts of information in a tiny place.

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

you know, intelligence, it's changed security, it's changed what people call the insider threat, it's changed what you can do with spying and stealing secrets now, even though Edward Snowden, as we said, is not a spy, because of the ability to kind of collect large amounts of information in a tiny place.

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

you know, intelligence, it's changed security, it's changed what people call the insider threat, it's changed what you can do with spying and stealing secrets now, even though Edward Snowden, as we said, is not a spy, because of the ability to kind of collect large amounts of information in a tiny place.

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

Okay, go for it.

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

Okay, go for it.