Ken Buckler is the author of the Leanpub book Hacking of the Free: Understanding Digital Threats to Democracy in the 21st Century. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ken about his background, his first experience with a computer and his early development of an interest in cybersecurity, the importance of privacy when it comes to technology, the relationship between cyber attacks and social engineering, the vulnerabilities of voting machines in the United States, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

This interview was recorded on January 20, 2020.

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This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.