The Ball Drops on the World's Biggest New Year's Scare
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What Were They Thinking?
Dire consequences are predicted for the new year: Airplanes will fall from the sky. Our defensive missiles will be un-launchable. Broadcast communication will cease. The financial system will collapse. All due to a terrifying cyber event.
Millions of dollars and thousands of manhours are spent in preparation for what The Wall Street Journal later calls the “the hoax of the twentieth century.” What in the name of digital dunderheadedness happened? Listen and learn all about it in this episode.
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