Podcasts Technology Frontmatter Ken Buckler, Author of Hacking of the Free: Understanding Digital Threats to Democracy in the 21st Century

Ken Buckler, Author of Hacking of the Free: Understanding Digital Threats to Democracy in the 21st Century

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 8:54 p.m.

b'Ken Buckler is the author of the Leanpub book Hacking of the Free: Understanding Digital Threats to Democracy in the 21st Century. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ken about his background, his first experience with a computer and his early development of an interest in cybersecurity, the importance of privacy when it comes to technology, the relationship between cyber attacks and social engineering, the vulnerabilities of voting machines in the United States, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.\\n\\nThis interview was recorded on January 20, 2020.\\n\\nThe full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanpub_podcasts/FM141-Ken-Buckler-2020-01-20.mp3. You can subscribe to the Frontmatter podcast in iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/leanpub-podcast/id517117137 or add the podcast URL directly here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/leanpub-podcast/id517117137.\\n\\nThis interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.'