1:20:59CrowdStrike Founder: "China Has Planted Sleeper Cells In Our Power Grid!" | Dmitri Alperovitch
Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded CrowdStrike and ran the Operation Aurora investigation that first showed the world what Chinese state hacking looked like, spends eighty one minutes with Peter McCormack on whether China is preparing to invade Taiwan. His central cyber claim: the campaign the US government calls Volt Typhoon breaks into small water utilities, port facilities, electric substations and power plants where there is nothing worth stealing, and then does nothing, sitting dormant as what he calls preparation of the battlefield. On the military side he argues Taiwan may be the worst place on earth to invade, that America drafted and abandoned its own plan to do it in 1944, and that 2032 matters more than the 2027 date everyone quotes. The back half covers why roughly 90% of advanced chips route through Taiwan, why a conflict there erases $5 trillion of GDP in year one, why the CHIPS Act money arrived two years too late to save Intel, and why the man who built the biggest cyber defense company alive now thinks America should steal Chinese IP right back.
