Cory Doctorow, activist, journalist, and author who wrote the influential Little Brother cyberpunk series, gets into some big issues like surveillance capitalism and his work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He doesn’t hold anything back.

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Why you should listen:

* Hear from one of the smartest and most engaged technologists today on how technology can be used both for malicious purposes or for good.

* Consider how bias can be built into code and have real-world implications. 

* Listen to Cory’s view on tech monopolies and his proposals for reversing their power over users and the internet more broadly.

* Better understand why independent security research might seem counterintuitive to many people. 

* Hear the author of one most influential cyberpunk series discuss the origins of his latest book, Attack Surface.

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Key Quotes:

* “Wishful thinking isn’t going to solve real-world technical security issues.”

* “It’s so important that we build safeguards against our own frailty.”

* “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.”

* “Monopoly is a really bad tool for protecting privacy because monopoly only protects privacy where privacy is in the interests of the monopolist.”

* "We should hold everyone to account for being good privacy actors by having a privacy law -- a real, no fooling privacy law."

* "One of the things that we need to take consideration of is that the security apocalypse is here. It's just not evenly distributed."

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Related Links:

* Synack.com 

* https://www.linkedin.com/company/synack-inc-

* https://twitter.com/synack

* https://craphound.com/

* https://pluralistic.net/

* https://twitter.com/doctorow