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"text": " Welcome to Practical AI, the podcast that makes artificial intelligence practical, productive,"
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"text": " Thanks to our partners at fly.io."
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"text": " Launch your AI apps in five minutes or less."
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"text": " What's up nerds, I'm here with Kurt Mackie, co-founder, and CEO of Fly."
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"text": " You know we love Fly."
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"text": " So Kurt, I want to talk to you about the magic of the cloud."
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"text": " Yeah, thought's in his right?"
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"text": " Right."
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"text": " I think it's valuable to understand the Magic Blinded Cloud because you can build better features"
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"text": " particularly now that people are doing LLM stuff, but you can do a lot of stuff if you get"
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"text": " that and can be creative with it."
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"text": " So when you say clouds aren't magic because you're building a public cloud for developers"
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"text": " and you go on to explain exactly how it works, what does that mean to you?"
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"text": " In some ways it means these all came from somewhere, like there was a simpler time before clouds"
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"text": " is actually because AWS and GCP have created such big black box abstractions."
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"text": " An archononical version of this for us is that when we looked at how we wanted to isolate"
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"text": " a minimal abstraction on top of generally like Linux kernel features. A lot of our platform is"
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"text": " actually just exposing a nice UX around Linux kernel features which I think is kind of interesting"
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"text": " but like you still need to understand what they're doing to get the most use out of them."
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"text": " Very cool. Okay, so experience the magic of fly and get told the secrets of fly because that's"
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"text": " for free at fly.io again fly.io"
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"text": " Welcome to another episode of the practical AI podcast. I'm Chris Benson. I'm a principal AI"
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"text": " and autonomy research engineer at Lockheed Martin. And with me today I have two guests that are"
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"text": " going to join in the conversation. They are both from Blackberry. One is Gregory Richardson who is"
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"text": " Vice President and Global Advisory CISO at Blackberry. And there's also Ismail Valisuela. Did I get"
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"text": " that correct? Yes, thank you Chris. And I normally have Daniel for that. And he is Vice President"
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"text": " of threat research and intelligence at Blackberry. Gentlemen, welcome to the show. Thank you so"
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"text": " much for joining. Honour to be here Chris. Thank you. Thank you Chris. Really glad to have you."
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"text": " We're going to talk today all about security and threats and see issues like that. I know that"
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"text": " there's a blog post to get us started and I'll let you guys kind of take it from there that"
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"text": " you have on the Blackberry blog that was the AI standoff attackers versus defenders."
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"text": " And I know Daniel was the first person to see it and said we got to get these guys on the show."
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"text": " And then ironically he is not able to get here today. And I know he's disappointed about that."
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"text": " But what did it kind of start off? And can you tell us a little bit about the topic in general before"
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"text": " we dive into the specifics and the landscape and who does it affect and why should they care?"
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"text": " So maybe it has to do a little bit with our backgrounds as well. So I cannot really say I'm an"
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"text": " to cyber defense. I started on the offensive side but then I quickly moved into the, well not"
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"text": " quickly but over years I moved into the defensive side. So I've seen both sides and I still like to"
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"text": " you know, pick on the offensive side to learn from it. I call that think right at blue,"
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"text": " right? Think as an attacker to become a better defender. So obviously when I was writing about"
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"text": " this, I had to bring the AI flavor to it. Like is it really, you say I go into represent an"
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"text": " advantage to attackers or defenders and we usually get that question. So I wrote this from a cyber"
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"text": " defense perspective, right? And that's what you see there. So before we dive fully into the"
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"text": " article, what was driving the need? What are you seeing? You guys both at Blackberry,"
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"text": " Gentlemen, thank you very, very much for coming on the show. It was a great conversation. I learned a"
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"text": " I'm a pleasure. Thank you, Chris. Thank you, Chris."
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