Jack Rhysider is the creator and host of the Darknet Diaries podcast, which features true stories from the dark side of the Internet. He stops by BarCode and we discuss the origin of his own story, masking of his identity, developing storytelling skills, growing an audience, productivity hacks for entrepreneurial content creators, and more. SYMLINKS Twitter Darknet Diaries Khan Academy | Pixar in a box Radiolab Serial This American Life Down the Security Rabbithole Paul’s Security Weekly Sec...

Charlie Northrup is the co-founder of NeurSciences, a software technology, architecture, and solutions development company that provides there artificially intelligent digital brain applications to integrate, manage, and automate the things that truly matter to us. He’s focused on the digital transformation of the web into an ecosphere of ecosystems operated by and for the benefit of intelligent agents, working for individuals, households, and organizations. Co-hosts Mike Elkins and Rohan L...

Arun Vishwanath, a leading expert in human cyber risk, has held faculty positions at the University at Buffalo, Indiana University, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He has published close to 50 peer-reviewed papers on human cyber vulnerabilities and also written for CNN, The Washington Post, and other major media outlets. Special co-host Dr. Matthew Canham joins me as well. Matt is an expert in Cognitive Psychology, Social Engineering and the Hu...

Jeff Jockisch is a privacy expert with experience in privacy rights, privacy laws, data breaches, intrusion detection, as well as other areas, such as cognitive computing, content development and trust systems. He is also cohost of “Your Bytes, Your Rights” podcast. Dave Burnett is the head of global business development at Zero Biometrics. He’s a serial entrepreneur who brings global executive expertise and experience from private and public companies into the security, biometric, and digi...

Alyssa Miller is a life-long hacker and experienced security executive. She has a passion for security which she advocates to fellow business leaders and industry audiences both as a high-level cyber security professional and through her presence in the security community. She blends a unique mix of technical expertise and executive experience to bridge the gap that can often form between security practitioners and business leaders. Her goal is to change the way we look at the security of our...

Anastasia Edwards is an innovative thinker and Cybersecurity Professional with refreshing soft skills in empathy, emotional intelligence, awareness communications, and cultural change implementation. Her sweet spot is melding Cybersecurity Awareness together with Insider Threat monitoring and detection. She is a forward thinking Cybersecurity professional with dreams and aspirations of bringing Cybersecurity awareness and best practices for a safer digital lifestyle, to people all over the wo...

Mark, aka @LargeCardinal is a researcher and Technical Specialist in Quantum Cybersecurity and ML at a bank. He has specialist knowledge in many areas, including cryptography, embedded systems, quantum information and maths. He has contributed a chapter to various papers and a book, and consults to numerous companies and research groups, including academic and commercial. Victoria, @V__Wave has worked with several startups in wide ranging areas, from deep tech for cybersecurity to consumer ...

Pablos Holman is a notorious hacker, inventor, entrepreneur and technology futurist who thinks differently to solve the world’s biggest problems by inventing new technology. At The Intellectual Ventures Lab, he has worked on a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitos – part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. Previously, Pablos helped build spaceships with Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin, the wo...

Frankie McRae is a storied former US Army Special Forces soldier and assault team leader. Since his retirement, Frankie has developed Range 37PSR, founded Raidon Tactics (a premiere training organization), deployed all over the world as a contractor to both combat zones and disaster areas, and taken the stand as an expert witness in homicide cases involving soldiers brought charged with shootings during combat operations. We catch up at the bar to discuss his storied experience, mission pla...

Experienced Intelligence Analyst and creator of the Cognitive Stairways of Analysis Framework, Nicole Hoffman has a passion for developing the analytic tradecraft. Her work, research, and presentations have inspired and educated others around the international analytic community. For someone diagnosed with ADHD, intelligence analysis can be mentally taxing. An experienced speaker, Nicole developed frameworks to dive deeper into the process of sensemaking in order to increase her analytic capa...