More BS From The F Minus Team | Unfiltered w Mallory Hagan
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What is the opening introduction and who is the guest on this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Truth in the Barrel Unfiltered. I'm Amy McGrath. Joining me today is my friend Mallory Hagan. Many of you know Mallory as Miss America 2013. But what you may not know is she's also run for Congress and she's worked in politics for many years. She brings a really interesting and different perspective. Mallory, welcome back. I'm so happy to be here, Amy. Thanks for having me. Good to see you.
Yeah, how are things going? Things are good. I mean, unless, you know, you look around at everything we're about to discuss. But, you know, personally, I'm doing all right.
Every day, my husband and I are like, is there a deal or no deal with Iran?
Deal or no deal. Where are we at today? That's the question.
Well, we're going to start out today talking about these attacks on our infrastructure here in America. Iranian cyber attacks have gone after U.S. water systems. Yes, this did happen. And no, Minnesota is not to blame. All right.
Iran is.
And actually our own vulnerable infrastructure is to blame for this. So seven different agencies have said that Iran has attacked our critical infrastructure. What is that? That's our water system.
How are Iranian cyber‑attacks targeting U.S. water and power infrastructure?
All right. For months, they have been targeting the exposed water systems, Internet attacks. devices that control these facilities around the United States. The Wall Street Journal says that Iran has attacked or someone has attacked 12 different states' systems. And so this is a big deal, I think. The president, our president, who we, you know, No, to be a rational actor.
Right.
Definitely, definitely telling us the truth. When asked about this, he said, I blame it on Minnesota. because they're grossly incompetent. And then he says, I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor there, the corrupt governor of Minnesota, because, you know, basically implying that Iran didn't do it, because he said Iran has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota. So that's where we start today.
Yeah, well, this is something, you know, I've known you for a couple of years now. This is something that you have actually talked about. You have talked about the fact that their capabilities go far and beyond most people's concern about nuclear. They have the ability to do asymmetrical warfare. You have been warning about this and here it is right in front of us. I think what's most interesting was that this all started with him just saying Minnesota and actually not divulging the other states. where these attacks took place. And there is speculation, of course, that those other states are not blue states. So he did not want to admit that, you know, red states, their infrastructure was vulnerable.
But maybe expand a little bit more about how this is, you know, something that you could have predicted.
Like these attacks actually happened also in South Dakota and Georgia. What are they? They're basically non-state actors. Well, for years, we've monitored these types of things. You can have state actors or non-state actors that will hack basically hack into the IP addresses of these systems that control, you know, like for example, our power plants or, or water treatment facilities around the country. And so what this does is a lot of our water treatments facilities are monitored by computers that we monitor to make sure that the, you know, that the water, Water is being treated effectively, right? That's important for us. You have to have certain pressure for untreated groundwater and all this stuff.
And so when non-state actors hack into this and these systems don't work, that's kind of a big deal. But it has been going on for a long time. There are states like China. Some of these actors come from China, from Russia. We know North Korea has extensive cyber... And Iran does too. And now, of course, it's all expanded because of AI. Right. And it's hard to assign blame to these. Obviously, our intelligence agencies think that this has come from Iran. And here's the thing, Mallory. But that would also just make sense, given everything. Iran has a reason to do this.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and who is the guest on this episode?
0:00–1:22
2
How are Iranian cyber‑attacks targeting U.S. water and power infrastructure?
1:22–15:48
3
Why are AI companies scanning and then destroying rare physical books?
15:48–17:39
4
How is Maine’s ballot initiative aiming to limit super‑PAC contributions?
17:39–21:51
5
Who is ultra‑runner Sophie Grant and what record is she attempting to break?
21:51–29:24
6
What did the EPA try to do to protect water‑treatment plants from cyber threats?
29:24–51:18
7
Why are Iran and Oman meeting, and what could a deal over the Strait of Hormuz mean for the U.S.?
51:18–53:52
8
Has the Trump administration lost control of the Iran conflict?
53:52–54:52