The Lawfare Podcast: Edward Lucas on the Sum of All Cyberphobias

We welcome Edward Lucas, a senior editor at the Economist and author of the new book, Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet, to the show this week. At the third Hoover Book Soiree a few weeks ago, Lucas shared a drink with Lawfare’s Ben Wittes and discussed the rapid increase in cybercrime, the difficulties of identity verification on the web, and why, even today, we still do not take cybersecurity seriously enough. Lucas paints a bleak picture of our cybersecurity landscape, but closes with a few recommendations for how we can fix it. It’s a conversation that prompted Ben to digitally betray his country, and the rest of us to grab our dongles and strengthen our passwords.  And it’s the Lawfare Podcast, Episode #150: Edward Lucas on the Sum of All Cyberphobias. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.