John M Green - Cyber Warfare and Cyber Security

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I was genuinely captivated by John M. Green’s talk on cyber warfare and cyber security — a smart, frank evening that blends fiction, business sense and urgent public policy. John, a company director and co‑founder of a publishing business who also writes thrillers, used his novel The Trusted as a springboard to explore how the cyber revolution has transformed everything for the better and opened terrifying new avenues for abuse. He spoke with passion about trust, metadata, and how easily our systems can be weaponised by clever adversaries. The talk jumps from storytelling to real-world revelations — including the NSA metadata disclosures and Edward Snowden’s leaks — and asks hard questions about whether surveillance, legislation and security agencies can ever fully solve the problem. If you care about privacy, national security, or simply how the internet could be turned against us, this is an engaging, clear-eyed primer. Expect big-picture thinking, practical concerns and a novelist’s eye for the dramatic possibilities of cyber‑terror and state-level cyber warfare.

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John M. Green joins us to unpack cyber warfare and cyber security with the mix of storyteller’s urgency and business-hardened realism that makes him so compelling. In this talk John explains why he wrote his latest thriller, The Trusted, out of a worry that the cyber revolution was being hailed as all good while we ignored the dark side. He moves seamlessly between anecdotes from his fiction, observations from the business world and the real-world shock of the NSA metadata revelations made public by Edward Snowden.

Expect a clear, no-nonsense exploration of trust: who we trust online, how metadata can be harvested, and why that invisible stuff matters more than most of us realise. John lays out the concrete risks — cyber‑terror, state-sponsored attacks, and the misuse of our most trusted institutions — and asks whether legislation and security agencies can realistically keep pace.

This is an Australian perspective on global problems, delivered with wit and urgency. John is candid about the limits of technical fixes and the political dilemmas that follow big surveillance programmes. He also teases his fiction but keeps the conversation grounded in public policy and personal responsibility.

If you’re interested in privacy, information security, national security policy or you just like a good, thought-provoking talk from a novelist who knows business, this video is for you. Join the conversation below — what do you trust online, and what should we do next? Like, share and subscribe for more talks and interviews.

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