Cory Doctorow and the Infosec Apocalypse

<p>Cory Doctorow, activist, journalist, and author who wrote the influential <i>Little Brother</i> cyberpunk series, gets into some big issues like surveillance capitalism and his work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He doesn’t hold anything back.</p><p>--------</p><p><strong>Why you should listen:</strong></p><p>* Hear from one of the smartest and most engaged technologists today on how technology can be used both for malicious purposes or for good.</p><p>* Consider how bias can be built into code and have real-world implications. </p><p>* Listen to Cory’s view on tech monopolies and his proposals for reversing their power over users and the internet more broadly.</p><p>* Better understand why independent security research might seem counterintuitive to many people. </p><p>* Hear the author of one most influential cyberpunk series discuss the origins of his latest book, <i>Attack Surface</i>.</p><p>--------</p><p><strong>Key Quotes:</strong></p><p>* “Wishful thinking isn’t going to solve real-world technical security issues.”</p><p>* “It’s so important that we build safeguards against our own frailty.”</p><p>* “Tech has become a kind of dangerous monoculture ...technologically dangerous because a breach or a defect in a system has consequences for hundreds of millions, if not billions of users.”</p><p>* “Monopoly is a really bad tool for protecting privacy because monopoly only protects privacy where privacy is in the interests of the monopolist.”</p><p>* "We should hold everyone to account for being good privacy actors by having a privacy law -- a real, no fooling privacy law."</p><p>* "One of the things that we need to take consideration of is that the security apocalypse is here. It's just not evenly distributed."</p><p>--------</p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><p>* <a href="Synack.com ">Synack.com </a></p><p>* <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/synack-inc-">https://www.linkedin.com/company/synack-inc-</a></p><p>* <a href="https://twitter.com/synack">https://twitter.com/synack</a></p><