publicinterest
Technology and Policymakers
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It's an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled The Two Cultures. He called them sciences ...
Cybersecurity for the Public Interest
The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and ...
Videos and Links from the Public-Interest Technology Track at the RSA Conference
Yesterday at the RSA Conference, I gave a keynote talk about the role of public-interest technologists in cybersecurity. (Video here). I also hosted a one-day mini-track on the topic. We had six ...
Public-Interest Tech at the RSA Conference
Our work in cybersecurity is inexorably intertwined with public policy and -- more generally -- the public interest. It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part ...
