EPISODE · Feb 20, 2019 · 9 MIN
Security News This Week: Database Leak Details China's Oppressive Tracking of Muslims
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
The US government averted another shutdown when Donald Trump instead opted to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall dreams—a wall which raises huge privacy and security concerns and will cause more problems than it solves. As the country digested the national emergency, cybersecurity workers were still scrambling to clean up the security nightmare wrought by the longest shutdown in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The US government averted another shutdown when Donald Trump instead opted to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall dreams—a wall which raises huge privacy and security concerns and will cause more problems than it solves. As the country digested the national emergency, cybersecurity workers were still scrambling to clean up the security nightmare wrought by the longest shutdown in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Security News This Week: Database Leak Details China's Oppressive Tracking of Muslims
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