Collaborate Disseminate
I have spoken at several TED conferences over the years.
TEDxPSU 2010: “Reconceptualizing Security”
TEDxCambridge 2013: “The Battle for Power on the Internet”
TEDMed 2016: “Who Controls Your Medical Data?”
I’m… Continue reading My TED Talks
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking twice at RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco. I’ll be on a panel on software liability on May 6, 2024 at 8:30 AM, and I’m giving a keynote on AI and demo… Continue reading Upcoming Speaking Engagements
The paperback version of A Hacker’s Mind has just been published. It’s the same book, only a cheaper format.
But—and this is the real reason I am posting this—Amazon has significantly discounted the hardcover to $15 to get rid o… Continue reading A Hacker’s Mind is Out in Paperback
Okay, so this is weird. Zelle has been using my name, and my voice, in audio podcast ads—without my permission. At least, I think it is without my permission. It’s possible that I gave some sort of blanket permission when speaking at an event. It’s not likely, but it is possible.
I wrote to Zelle about it. Or, at least, I wrote to a company called Early Warning that owns Zelle about it. They asked me where the ads appeared. This seems odd to me. Podcast distribution networks drop ads in podcasts depending on the listener—like personalized ads on webpages—so the actual podcast doesn’t matter. And shouldn’t they know their own ads? Annoyingly, it seems time to get attorneys involved…
Continue reading Zelle Is Using My Name and Voice without My Consent
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at the International PolCampaigns Expo (IPE24) in Cape Town, South Africa, January 25-26, 2024.
The list is maintained on this page.
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Last month, I convened the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023) at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center. As with IWORD 2022, the goal was to bring together a diverse set of thinkers and practitioners to talk about how democracy might be reimagined for the twenty-first century.
My thinking is very broad here. Modern democracy was invented in the mid-eighteenth century, using mid-eighteenth-century technology. Were democracy to be invented from scratch today, with today’s technologies, it would look very different. Representation would look different. Adjudication would look different. Resource allocation and reallocation would look different. Everything would look different, because we would have much more powerful technology to build on and no legacy systems to worry about…
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Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”
Continue reading Ben Rothke’s Review of A Hacker’s Mind
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at the AI Summit New York on December 6, 2023.
The list is maintained on this page.
Continue reading Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits.
Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago. At this point, … Continue reading New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking on “Cybersecurity Thinking to Reinvent Democracy” at RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at 9:40 AM PT.
I’m speaking at IT-S Now 2… Continue reading Upcoming Speaking Engagements