Learning about Cybersecurity from an Unnatural World

Radio 4 on Security: Bio, Cyber or otherwise…

I was listening to the rerun of File On 4^[1] this evening, and a chap from the FBI said something very sensible about Cybersecurity.

Albeit the programme itself was nothing to do with cybersecurity and its tone was mildly hysterical in conflating domestic DIY-biologists and science experimenters – complete with fearsome plans downloaded from the internet – with anthrax outbreaks, vox-pop Oxford ethicists, and preparedness for “Olympic bioterrorism”.

Oh, and the destruction of humanity was mentioned.

But still a FBI agent (from the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate) said something very clever about how to deal with biosecurity, and therefore how to deal with security in general, and thus how to deal with cybersecurity:

FBI Special Agent Edward Yue^[2] said:

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[1] 18Mb MP3 at the BBC
[2] spelling may differ, audio citation only

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