Coordinated attacks on electrical grids. Quantum computers making encryption technology useless. Deepfakes that are nearly impossible to discern from reality, or an army of AI agents hacking networks with once unthinkable-speed and efficiency. These are only a few of the threats that could be facing the United States in the very near future—if we aren’t already. Today WIRED takes a deep dive into how vulnerable our current systems and networks are to the future of cyber threats.
0:00 Incognito Mode: The Future of Cyber Threats
0:26 Power Grid Cyber Attack
5:12 Deep Fakes
8:06 Quantum Encryption
12:18 GPS Attacks
14:39 AI Hacking
17:25 Cell Network Cyber Attacks
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@cyber_punk9017
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 pm
we have reach at the point where the technology which we have created and will be creating we fear the both
@darkcity925
June 2, 2025 at 2:50 pm
I thought the footage of them on the sofa was deepfaked. dude on the left looks like they just aged the host 10 years
@wiki2014
June 2, 2025 at 3:04 pm
12:29 maybe i’m missing something but how GPS affects trains?
@FerdinandCesarano
June 2, 2025 at 3:06 pm
The fear over deep fakes is tremendously overblown. This is a big issue to us, right now, in this moment of transition, when deep fakes are just emerging. But very soon, everyone will know not to trust photos or videos.
If you ran up to someone with a drawing on paper, and tried to use that drawing as a basis to make some sort of claim about something, you would not be believed, even by the stupidest person. It won’t be long before people will react to a video or to a supposed photograph in the same dismissive fashion.
So this deep fake issue is a “problem” that solves itself.
Note that, in very specialised settings such as in a court case, forensic experts will always be able to authenticate a video or a photo. But outside of that setting, our default assumption for every video and photo will very rapidly come to be that that video or photo is a creation, just like a drawing.
This is not a bad thing; it is most certainly **not** “a very scary new reality”.
@brownpaperbagyea
June 2, 2025 at 3:34 pm
meshtastic stock goin up ty andy u the goat
@professorsaul8851
June 2, 2025 at 3:44 pm
7:57 This is what my family does to avoid deep faked scams. My grandma almost got caught up in one of these by someone impersonating my cousin, so we came up with a code word only the family knows that we have to say in cases of money or anything scanner might ask for
@illeun1615
June 2, 2025 at 3:59 pm
Дякую за відео
@Nadi-Ger
June 2, 2025 at 4:13 pm
maybe we get the olden times messengers back.. on a horse, bike, whatever 😉
@guitarsoundsaround
June 2, 2025 at 7:06 pm
Wouldn’t hurt my feelings going back in tech time.
@kke8901
June 2, 2025 at 4:24 pm
wikileaks vault7…. just sayin
@mam_kanal_na--Rumble_i_Odysee
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm
❤ *Use GrapheneOS, don’t use garbage like Meta, Microsoft etc.*
@moonasha
June 2, 2025 at 4:33 pm
it doesn’t even have to be a cyber attack. In fact, it probably won’t be. Remember, Joe Biden let in millions upon millions of undocumented people who have just … disappeared into our country. I have a much easier time explaining this now thanks to what Ukraine did yesterday. Imagine that incident with the russian air assets, but far more widespread, with far more capable technology like 500km+ range drones since we don’t jam anything, on a huge range of strategic assets like substations and railway bridges. This is a nightmare scenario.
@TheBlueArcher
June 2, 2025 at 4:47 pm
It’s funny, because deepfake security protocol is sounding like sci-fi shows with shapeshifters.
@foley123
June 2, 2025 at 4:59 pm
Over the coming weeks we will see more and more news stories that will scare people. Justification for going to war needs to be created.
@colin.manuel
June 2, 2025 at 5:12 pm
Go Meshtastic Go
@kritikusi-666
June 2, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Boring. Nice production though.
@TanukiYT
June 2, 2025 at 6:01 pm
A recent video actually showed a paper about an AI agent actually finding a zero day exploit in the Linux kernel. It’s already possible.
@DimitriNikita-d5h
June 2, 2025 at 6:19 pm
Finally found a channel that actually shares without making it complicated.
@K12127
June 2, 2025 at 6:26 pm
7:55 we go back to in person interactions
@rafaeldegiacomoaraujo8778
June 2, 2025 at 6:39 pm
Funny to hear that for north Americans the danger is always a foreigner. Massive murder rate and a no public health care but the issue is China.
@Aurianbuyss
June 2, 2025 at 6:40 pm
ngl this seemed like a Simon Whistler look-a-like Convention
@TerrySitu
June 2, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Let’s keep it simple. What America did to the world is what the world will do to the U.S.A.
@nenjabim3754
June 2, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Alternate dimesion Simon?
@Rkcuddles
June 2, 2025 at 7:57 pm
16:45 can someone elaborate please? Doesn’t the same argument allow security researchers and programmers to expose and patch their own vulnerabilities before adversaries run their LLMs to try and do it?
@xliquidflames
June 2, 2025 at 9:03 pm
1:18 Crash Override? Someone is a fan of the 1995 film _Hackers_ starring Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. Hack the planet!
@MarkMark
June 2, 2025 at 9:24 pm
I have a couple of meshtastic devices and they are fun, but… has anyone trustworthy and deeply technical evaluated the algorithm and its implementation on these lilygo devices? Like, does it have a basic 0 day vulnerability that could be used to bring it down?
@HappyFelie
June 2, 2025 at 10:08 pm
A paper on an AI agent discovering a zero-day exploit in the Linux kernel was shown in a recent film. It’s already feasible.
@MrZZ-py4pq
June 2, 2025 at 10:34 pm
We need a us cyber force military branch.
@joMojojojo
June 3, 2025 at 3:13 pm
It’s crazy that countries don’t have full cyber armies, yet. Only China takes this seriously
@robumf
June 2, 2025 at 11:52 pm
I think a good Idea for a metastatic, or similar device is monitoring the large electrical pylon. Near the base Primary for fire protection and for security.
Temperature, electrostatic luminous flux and audio spikes.could be manufactured inexpensively. Sent hourly and specific conditions. Maybe the large electrical cables might already producing enough energy to power the device.
@bryanmccaffrey4385
June 3, 2025 at 12:33 am
Anyone remember power outage on East coast in 2003?
@devonkentao
June 3, 2025 at 12:37 am
A totally brilliant episode about the true future we’re living in and heading toward. Lots of fabulous technology still to come. However, low-tech still has its charms in any apocalyptic scenario. I hadn’t heard of meshtastic, but I’ll look into it further; I think it offers great potential. Cheers!
@johnw7188
June 3, 2025 at 1:45 am
DUDES, AI attacks you described are MONTHS out. Power, radio and GPS attacks are old hat.
Geez, folks. Get with it. 😅
@efrazier-s01
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 am
A little surprised to not see ransomware discussed, particularly for hospital/health systems.
@Havinnnnnnn
June 3, 2025 at 3:51 am
arent there quatum computers already here
@ES50678
June 3, 2025 at 5:32 am
17:43 the segment should be called first world problems
@kalfunai
June 3, 2025 at 9:16 am
So America is doing nothing while ita adversaries are doing all these things.
@powerhour4602
June 3, 2025 at 9:32 am
MFA for video conference lmao!!!!
@12thDecember
June 3, 2025 at 10:06 am
@ 14:50, this camera angle is consistently used in almost every Incognito Mode episode I’ve seen. It adds nothing. Video viewers aren’t sitting in a balcony looking down at the speaker. Just my opinion, it’s a distracting and outmoded technique.
@topofthegreen
June 3, 2025 at 10:10 am
China could easily shut us down.
@milworm432
June 3, 2025 at 10:57 am
These two are related.
@gorgthesalty
June 3, 2025 at 11:56 am
Crash Override is a Hackers movie homage.
@Dogwatcher
June 3, 2025 at 12:05 pm
The generation , new enigma problem to solve
@curtishoffmann6956
June 3, 2025 at 12:22 pm
Rather than worry about quantum computing, why not look at GPU cluster computing? Hashed password files can be broken within a few hours with a small cluster of 12-16 GPU cards. What happens if a country decides to back a cluster farm of thousands of GPUs just to crack hashed files of passwords up to 20 characters long?
@carlosoruna7174
June 3, 2025 at 12:42 pm
Grids are weak and easily attacked
@Itwasonlytime
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 pm
I thought he was talking to himself for a second
@ProfessionalBirdWatcher
June 3, 2025 at 4:40 pm
I don’t think these guys understand cybersecurity or cryptography
@johnpooley7562
June 3, 2025 at 5:21 pm
Meshtastic is way too high frequency and low bandwidth. Go UHF instead
@Elemental-l9i
June 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm
This is just fear mongering for views
@schobes
June 3, 2025 at 7:38 pm
I would implore everybody to look up the live cyber threat page…
@eksadiss
June 3, 2025 at 11:34 pm
Way too many bald people with glasses in tech
@Cadence256
June 4, 2025 at 12:37 am
Hideo Kojima has entered the chat.
@apolodelsol
June 4, 2025 at 12:46 am
btw, AMERICA is a CONTINENT, not a country 🌎
@press_button_for_assistance
June 4, 2025 at 1:44 am
You guys do know that Crash Override is one of the characters in the movie ‘Hackers’?
@papamurphsturf2901
June 4, 2025 at 4:45 am
Someone should have grown their hair out for this interview. I don’t know who I’m looking at lol.
@JoVinckier
June 4, 2025 at 5:19 am
Thanks for pitching meshtastic. That’s an interesting application!
@Tito-sq1kb
June 4, 2025 at 9:09 am
The biggest threat to America is corruption and greed
@edd7297
June 4, 2025 at 10:01 am
Haha I specialize in offline tools. 🤙🤙
@urbanstrencan
June 4, 2025 at 10:39 am
The future of cyber security is just scary
@loremipsum685
June 4, 2025 at 2:04 pm
Meanwhile the average user still uses the exact same password everywhere for 10 years and still falls for the most basic phishing attempts
@abdirahmanabdul2788
June 4, 2025 at 2:07 pm
Thanks for the upload🎉🎉🎉
@The_Trucker_Dave
June 4, 2025 at 4:54 pm
Texas is its own thing…for some reason is just a perfect statement about us.
@TheFredrickH
June 4, 2025 at 8:52 pm
Harvard is training Chinese students for their ability to attack US electricity grid.
@emorysmith197
June 4, 2025 at 9:39 pm
Meshtastic…… P2P decentralized network. Cutting esge. Just newly developing. (Well, quickly evolving, but its been around several years.)
@SynsofMusic
June 5, 2025 at 11:31 pm
It sounds like AirTags kicked up a notch. The guest even states that other devices need to be in the mesh network in order for a single device to send a message. But if the system does well in urban areas with numerous devices, how can it be reliable in remote areas with no devices as the end of the video shows, and states it can be used for areas with poor cell coverage?
@MaxR52
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 am
Bald beard bros
@mindofmyown333
June 5, 2025 at 12:36 pm
It’s really a scary time to be in IT. I feel like I can’t learn fast enough and what I do learn feels disjointed because by the time I’ve wrapped my head around it, it’s already changed.
@geobanaag387
June 8, 2025 at 3:29 am
Learn IT architecture
@akiisho
June 5, 2025 at 3:47 pm
DO NOT LET THE NEW SPENDING BILL PASS they want no new AI legislation for TEN YEARS we will no longer exist
@MattBraun
June 5, 2025 at 9:26 pm
Why are so many people talking about China attacking the US??? They already beat the US economically and have never been interested in global colonialism agressively. China is more interested in long-term things instead of petty wars. (total waste of money and focus)
@CoffeeShopCloud
June 6, 2025 at 2:22 am
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@anurupaanurupangate7385
June 6, 2025 at 5:52 am
great ❤️
@skatultiwari
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 am
wow nice 🙏
@AdityaYadav-450
June 6, 2025 at 6:03 am
Anxiety kept me in a state of constant exhaustion, mentally drained and physically tired. I thought this was just my normal until a friend recommended Shift Your Mind by Alexander Brooks. It completely shifted how I approach anxiety, giving me the ability to cope effectively. Small changes made a huge difference ❤️
@smuckerpablo
June 6, 2025 at 7:46 am
nerds take boosters
@lokipokey
June 6, 2025 at 2:24 pm
Wow what a huge amount of information packed into a relatively brief 20 minutes. I love the idea of the low-tech, community-based meshtastic system backing people up in case of a high-tech Cyber attack, or network overload in the event of a natural disaster. Don’t know how much adoption I could get in my rural Iowa small town. But we are pretty high tech here, having had 100 MBS fiber up and down since around 2005.
@JMelodys
June 6, 2025 at 3:31 pm
two bald guys just hashing it out, i love it <3
@Puddlepiratesince1953
June 8, 2025 at 11:14 am
Ppl grew up next to a modem and server, have lost the ability to have a, ‘gut feeling’.
They cant fathom.
They have to be told EVERYTHING.
@WARPAIN88
June 8, 2025 at 11:22 am
I am pretty sure the U.S. military has their own power grid.