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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff Works dot com. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. This is ancient time. I'm an editor in

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Speaker 1: How Stuff Works. With me, I've got agent a god

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Speaker 1: grows number. It's one of my writers. Nice. Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: they don't get alright. You threw me off like a

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Speaker 1: a godrows numbers constant. Oh, well, you know I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We've lost everyone but the hardcore science geeks. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. My name is Chris Poulett. I'm an

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Speaker 1: editor here, and with me is Jonathan Strickling. Hey there.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I was doing the spy thing was

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Speaker 1: because we were talking about when we were coming up

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Speaker 1: with podcast ideas, this brand new thing that the US

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Speaker 1: government has called a space. It's a it's a network

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Speaker 1: for spies, not just not just a network and online network,

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Speaker 1: and not just an online network and online social network. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a classified classified That's why

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Speaker 1: it was in the news, right, classified social network for spies.

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Speaker 1: Not you know, it shouldn't laugh. We're you know, we

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Speaker 1: Do you know that the lead Seriously, you're making some

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Speaker 1: big SIPs right now, I could right now be repelling

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Speaker 1: into somebody's office. But yeah, this is this is a

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Speaker 1: US government project and they're supposed to it's supposed to

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Speaker 1: enable sharing of information between different agencies, so different spies

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Speaker 1: to connect and share what what the latest information is.

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Speaker 1: And this is actually a huge deal if if it's real.

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Speaker 1: I should say, we have a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: about this, but it is kind of a huge deal

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Speaker 1: in the sense that traditionally a lot of these agencies

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're actually some pretty uh interesting things

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Speaker 1: communications a big deal. I mean, how do you facilitate

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Speaker 1: communication between different agencies UM that by their very nature,

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Speaker 1: are not communicative because it's it's if you're a spy

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Speaker 1: are you. Well, they're they're spending five million dollars according

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Speaker 1: part of that, right or your favorite tune playing in

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Speaker 1: the James Bond theme is really popular. Yeah, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: so it'll be I guess we'll probably never know if

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Speaker 1: m it's it's. Some people have been kind of describing

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Speaker 1: There are these folks out there called hackers, and there

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Speaker 1: Poulett's pet theory, which you know what sounds better and

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Speaker 1: better to me every day. Let's let's go into it.

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Speaker 1: can't believe that it didn't occur to me. Well, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, in this case, a space might be more

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Speaker 1: aptly named bait space. Right, it's the online honey pot Yep,

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Speaker 1: if you get what we're saying, uh, it's it may

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Speaker 1: and identify themselves in some way. It's a trap, right, exactly,

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Speaker 1: We'll let it that out. So, Okay. The interesting thing

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Speaker 1: we think of as niche networks right, that cater to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, But there are all kinds of things.

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