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#266 – Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Name of the Game in Cyber Security Isn't Perfect Security

If you can fix one thing in the world in terms of cyber security, that would make the world a better place. What is two factor authentication? It's ridiculous how many attacks come in because someone didn't turn on multifactor authentication. The name of the game right now isn't perfect security. Perfect security is impossible. They will always find a way in. That is the fundamental difference between nuclear weapons and cyber attacks as the attribution or one of the fundamental differences. You have to keep human nature as it is.

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