211 The DOD's SWAT Team of Nerds

Joining us this week is Jack Cable. He’s a security researcher and student at Stanford University, currently a researcher with the Stanford Internet Observatory and the Stanford Empirical Security Research Group. Jack built a reputation for himself in hacker circles as a talented and prolific bug bounty hunter, and is ranked within the top 100 hackers all-time on HackerOne. He started his cyber security pursuits as a teenager, and joined the Defense Digital Service out of high school, where he helped run the Hack the Pentagon bug bounty portfolio, advised on the next iteration of the DoD Vulnerability Disclosure Program, and built innovative cybersecurity assessment tools.

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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.