Joe Menn's guest appearances

Joe Menn

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Zócalo Public Square

Ray Dalio

Sam Harris

Mark Cuban

Reid Hoffman

Elon Musk

Bill Gates

Tim Ferriss

Patrick Collison

Marc Andreessen

Deepak Chopra

Donald Trump

Nancy Pelosi

Cecile Richards

Roger McNamee

Megan Quinn

OwlTail

Beto O'Rourke

Writer Joe Menn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World."In this episode:How Menn started writing about cybercrime; the rise and fall of Napster; his first book about hacking, “Fatal System Error”; the origins of Cult of the Dead Cow; “they’re basically good guys”; its invite-only membership and how it works; how it forced Microsoft to take security seriously; how future presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke got involved; what other CDC alumni are doing today; the state of cybercrime in 2019; the complexity of protecting yourself online; the government’s attempts to undermine encryption; the 2020 election; and what the US should do to protect its citizens.Follow usKara Swisher (@karaswisher), hostJoe Menn (@josephmenn), guestErica Anderson (@EricaAmerica), executive producerEric Johnson (@HeyHeyESJ), producerMore to exploreIf you haven't already, subscribe to Recode DecodeSubscribe to Recode's other podcasts: Recode Media, Pivot, and Land of the Giants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Writer Joe Menn talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his most recent book, "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World."In this episode:How Menn started writing about cybercrime; the rise and fall of Napster; his first book about hacking, “Fatal System Error”; the origins of Cult of the Dead Cow; “they’re basically good guys”; its invite-only membership and how it works; how it forced Microsoft to take security seriously; how future presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke got involved; what other CDC alumni are doing today; the state of cybercrime in 2019; the complexity of protecting yourself online; the government’s attempts to undermine encryption; the 2020 election; and what the US should do to protect its citizens.Follow usKara Swisher (<a href="https://twitter.com/karaswisher" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@karaswisher</a>), hostJoe Menn (<a href="https://twitter.com/josephmenn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@josephmenn</a>), guestErica Anderson (<a href="https://twitter.com/ericaamerica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@EricaAmerica</a>), executive producerEric Johnson (<a href="https://twitter.com/heyheyesj" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@HeyHeyESJ</a>), producerMore to exploreIf you haven't already, subscribe to <a href="http://bit.ly/recodedecode" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Recode Decode</a>Subscribe to Recode's other podcasts: <a href="http://bit.ly/recode-media" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Recode Media</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/pivot-pod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pivot</a>, and <a href="http://bit.ly/land-of-the-giants" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Land of the Giants</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Recode Decode: "Cult of the Dead Cow" author Joe Menn