Episode Transcript: #1617 - Mike Baker
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That sound is the sweet and sultry sound of Mike Baker lighting a cigar.
Hey, Dale.
Good to see you, buddy. What's happening?
Good to be seen. Good to be seen.
You know, not much going on in these times of ours.
I'm very excited to talk to you because I had a guy on Jamie Metzley yesterday, a scientist who scared the shit out of me.
Talking about China. He's talking about China.
We were talking about China amassing naval power.
China's taking over tech companies and how huge they're getting and how much influence they have over their people as opposed to the way we do it.
Well, he's not wrong.
Yeah, I can't spot the lie in what you just said.
I mean, look, there's so much we can talk about.
But if you think about it, just in the past handful of months, there was this SolarWinds hack by the Russians.
So the Russians go in, they hack into a company called SolarWinds.
There is an IT management software company.
It happens to be fairly deep into government organizations, agencies, treasury and a variety of others throughout the U.S. government.
And they're also into parts of the Intel community, Defense Department and a lot of commercial sectors.