The Death Of The Open Internet — Transcript

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1. 0:00I just woke up and the first thing I
2. 0:01wake up to is American banks have swarms
3. 0:05of agents trying to break into them.
4. 0:07This comes immediately after yesterday's
5. 0:09PHP to Shell where the Japanese prime
6. 0:11minister even told virtually every
7. 0:14Japanese person with a website, take
8. 0:16this thing down right now. Um, and push
9. 0:18this critical vulnerability update or
10. 0:20we're screwed. Uh, Railway, major
11. 0:22consumer service, major business
12. 0:24service, uh, which I hosted a couple of
13. 0:26apps on, had all API keys leaked.
14. 0:28E-Mudra happened. Did you know every
15. 0:30Californian student since 2023 just had
16. 0:33all of their private information leaked?
17. 0:34Yeah, that happened. Um, how about over
18. 0:3610 million citizens in Japan? How about
19. 0:38the fact that the NSA cyber account was
20. 0:41just talking about how they're seeing
21. 0:43extreme coordinated levels of activity
22. 0:45trying to hack into Seaman's PLC's?
23. 0:48These are small computers that control
24. 0:51refrigeration units for things like, you
25. 0:54know, grocery stores, things like, I
26. 0:56don't know, [snorts] water distillation
27. 0:58plants. These are the very services that
28. 1:00you and I depend on every single day.
29. 1:02How long is your civilization going to
30. 1:05look like a civilization when you can't
31. 1:07get food or water? How long does it take
32. 1:10for various social norms to break down
33. 1:12and the security between people in a
34. 1:15community to disappear? I'm not saying
35. 1:17this to freak anybody out, but like in 8
36. 1:19hours from when I went to bed and when I
37. 1:21woke up, we're in a completely different
38. 1:23world in a completely different
39. 1:24environment. It is unlikely that we will
40. 1:26continue to have an open and free
41. 1:28internet at least to the point that
42. 1:30we're at now where theoretically there
43. 1:32is, you know, my computer and through a
44. 1:35wire it is connected to some hacker's
45. 1:37basement. That freedom feels like it was
46. 1:39a golden era sort of thing that we will
47. 1:42never ever get back again. I think that
48. 1:44you know the world is going to be very
49. 1:45very different when you have obliterated
50. 1:48versions of DeepSec v4.1 Flash 1017
51. 1:52trrowling every single port known to
52. 1:54man. but then also applying their own
53. 1:55flexible intelligence to try and hack
54. 1:57into it from from 5,000 other angles.
55. 1:59That's more or less what's happening
56. 2:00now, by the way. You know, before where
57. 2:02like if somebody did do some major hack,
58. 2:04you know, the government would come out
59. 2:05and be like, "We've identified the
60. 2:07hacker and we're taking actions to, you
61. 2:09know, prosecute them right now or
62. 2:11whatever." How do you do that when it's
63. 2:13a swarm of disconnected but somehow
64. 2:15still organized like botn nets that have
65. 2:19hacked every major consumer internet of
66. 2:21things device on planet earth and are
67. 2:22coordinating their own attacks through
68. 2:24proxies through DOSs. I used to be a
69. 2:28programmer and I say that loosely here.
70. 2:30You know I was self-taught. I spent
71. 2:31probably two or three years hitting the
72. 2:33books and uh PHP was my very first
73. 2:35language. It was the very first thing I
74. 2:37learned. I say I used to be a programmer
75. 2:38because I I would not consider myself a
76. 2:40programmer anymore. I think the world
77. 2:42that I'm moving into is one where
78. 2:44programming, cyber security, cyber
79. 2:46warfare are so far removed from their
80. 2:48initial kind of definitions or concepts
81. 2:51that, you know, it's like me in the
82. 2:531800s picking up a rock and putting it
83. 2:56down again and then calling myself a
84. 2:57bodybuilder. Like I'm just not anymore.
85. 2:59And I don't think any of us are [snorts]
86. 3:01at all anymore. And I think a lot of the
87. 3:03sovereignty and the power that we
88. 3:05thought that we used to have, whether it
89. 3:07was on the internet or elsewhere, really
90. 3:09needs to be looked at again. Our sense
91. 3:10of identity here really needs to be
92. 3:12looked at again. Because in a world
93. 3:13where like community barriers break down
94. 3:16because we can't trust anything that any
95. 3:18of these devices tell us anymore, our
96. 3:19identities are the only things we're
97. 3:20going to have to fall back on. And in a
98. 3:22world where most humans are either
99. 3:24economically disempowered or replaced by
100. 3:27artificial intelligences far more
101. 3:29capable than whatever deepseek likely
102. 3:32swarm is currently hacking into most
103. 3:34American devices. Um we'll need that
104. 3:36identity. So actionables. Last night I
105. 3:39went to a grocery store and I stocked up
106. 3:42on tons of non-p perishables like I
107. 3:44don't know 50,000 100,000 calories
108. 3:45worth. Would highly recommend you do as
109. 3:47well. Um I have security. I have a bunch
110. 3:50of water. uh you know I have
111. 3:51multiffactor authentication 2FA
112. 3:53everything everything across virtually
113. 3:55all devices. I went through and I
114. 3:57secured to the best of my ability all of
115. 3:59my public facing web properties as well
116. 4:01as you know revisited any API keys that
117. 4:03I had and I rotated virtually
118. 4:05everything. Lord knows how bad I am with
119. 4:06security as is. Like this was a hell of
120. 4:08a wakeup call but I don't know if
121. 4:09that'll be enough and yeah I just wanted
122. 4:11to let you guys know where we're at now.
123. 4:13So the situation continues to get worse
124. 4:15and worse and worse and um yeah I was
125. 4:17supposed to have a flight later today.
126. 4:18Like is that going to happen? I mean,
127. 4:19maybe it's not a a far cry to see, you
128. 4:22know, something like the same thing that
129. 4:25knocked out a vast majority of flights
130. 4:28across, you know, Europe and the Middle
131. 4:30East, I think it was like 6 months ago
132. 4:32or so, happen again today. I honestly
133. 4:34have no idea how the next few hours are
134. 4:36going to go, but, you know, North Korean
135. 4:38websites have been down now for
136. 4:40basically a day, guys. What's going on
137. 4:42over there? Anyway, [sighs and gasps]
138. 4:43just wanted to let you all know. Good
139. 4:44luck.