How We Built the Wrong Internet: Thomas P. Vartanian on Rebuilding Cyberspace to Make it "Unhackable"


Author: Andrew Keen February 2, 2023 Duration: 27:40
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How We Built the Wrong Internet: Thomas P. Vartanian on Rebuilding Cyberspace to Make it "Unhackable"

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to THE UNHACKABLE INTERNET author Thomas P. Vartanian about rebuilding cyberspace to create real security and prevent financial collapse.

Tom Vartanian is a longtime financial regulator who worked in both the Carter and Reagan administrations before a long career in private practice. His book, THE UNHACKABLE INTERNET, is about how everyone knows the internet is dangerous and we are all sitting ducks for a massive attack that upends our lives, yet nobody is doing close to enough to prevent it.

Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.


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