Let's Talk Calmly About Security and Privacy

I have a couple of conversations waiting to be produced, but with all the controversy swirling around the Sony hack, I decided to have another talk with cyberwarfare expert Jeffrey Carr to figure out what the hell is happening. PLUS! This podcast now has a co-host: friend and Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat, Gunnar Hellekson. Gunnar is an experienced podcaster and will bring a lot to this show.

Jeffrey Carr, founder and CEO of Taia Global, talks with me about the bigger picture of global cybersecurity. There's no way an 60-minute conversation can tell you everything you need to know. My goal for this episode was to give myself, and all of you, some basic knowledge on a very difficult topic. We cover some other stuff as well: the NSA's dual missions of cyberdefense and offense; the questionable veracity of signals intelligence; and why superpowers are not the real threat to global cybersecurity. Jeff on Twitter taiaglobal.com

Lewis Shepherd is the director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments. Prior to that, he was the group chief for Requirements and Research at the Defense Intelligence Agency. In this episode, we talk about the tradition of cooperation between government and the technology sector, and whether more data leads to better intelligence analysis.

Clay is the author of several books on Internet society, including "Here Comes Everybody" and "Cognitive Surplus." I chose him for the first episode because he's good at reviewing problems as an objective third party. In this discussion, we talk about 9/11 as a criminal act vs an act of war; the militarization of police power in small American towns; and why it's dangerous for the NSA to have all this data ("It's not because anybody at the NSA cares what I'm doing.")