Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society.
We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level.
Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover.
But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest.
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Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society.
We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level.
Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover.
But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest.
This is the Conversations feed, bringing you interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff.
There's also the Extras podcast, containing related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future.
Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.
Why do so many internet applications end up being hit with privacy disasters? Why not make sure they handle personal data properly to begin with? There's a process for that, and it's called "privacy engineering".
Michelle Dennedy is chief privacy officer with information security firm McAfee and, along with two family members, is co-author of the book "The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value". The ebook version of is available for free.
As I reported in my ZDNet Australia column a few days ago:
"Oftentimes what you find is that [privacy] is the realm of the lawyer, or the risk manager if you're lucky, or maybe the odd finance guy will wander into the cave every now and again," Dennedy said. "Then you go and you talk to the people who are slinging code, or buying services or software or techniques, or going to the cloud and dreaming up technical stuff, and they say to you, 'Kinda leave us in our cave over here, and go write your little policies, they're so cute, and then maybe at the end of it -- maybe -- you get to write some terms and conditions to get me out of my obligations.'"
You recognise that scenario, right? It's another of those ethical shortfalls, where the rules that society has agreed to operate by are seen as just another inconvenience to be avoided.
Privacy engineering is the process of turning various policies, from privacy laws to the needs of the business' plan for data, into something that programmers can work with -- indeed. something they'll want to work with because it's now an engineering problem. It's also something that quality assurance (QA) processes can deal with.
This interview was recorded on 6 May 2014 in Sydney, Australia.
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Corrupted Nerds is about how the internet revolution is changing society.
We're completely rewiring the way the human species handles information and knowledge for everyone on the planet. And knowledge is power, right? So really, we're changing power relationships at every level of society. And I do mean every level.
Part of this power shift is about nation-states and war and espionage and criminal hackers, and certainly information security and hacking and the cybers are things we'll cover.
But Corrupted Nerds is also about the relationship between governments and their citizens, businesses and their customers, parents and their children and all the rest.
This is the Conversations feed, bringing you interviews and panel discussions with smart people who can help us understand all this stuff.
There's also the Extras podcast, containing related material that happens not to be a conversation. More podcasts streams may emerge in the future.
Corrupted Nerds is produced and presented by Stilgherrian.
