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Mar 2021
23m 28s

Spying in the digital age

Financial Times
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Helen Warrell, the FT’s defence and security editor, talks to cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch about the SolarWinds and Microsoft hacks. How extensive was the damage inflicted and how should the west respond to such attacks?

Clips: CBS, CNN, NBC




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