Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 142 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is security expert and futurist Mark Goodman.

He has over 20 years experience in law enforcement, working with organizations such as Interpol, the UN, NATO, LAPD, and the U.S. government.

He's also the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and an advisor for Singularity University.

His new book is called Future Crimes.

Everything is connected, everyone is vulnerable, and what we can do about it.

And now here's our interview with Mark Goodman.

All right, so we're here with Mark Goodman. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. It's my pleasure to you here.

Okay, so your new book is called Future Crimes.

So just tell us a bit about how this book came about.

Well, I've worked in high-tech crime investigation for many, many years and I've watched the flow of technology and the pace of Moore's Law and I've been fascinated by how they do

underworld innovation, how criminals are focused on all these next generation technologies and I wanted to write a book explaining what's going on in the digital underground to folks so that they can learn more about what's happening and therefore how to protect themselves,

their families, their businesses, and the country.

Yeah, and so you say the book is called future crimes, but a lot of the stuff you talked

about in the book is actually happening already.

Yeah absolutely it's funny you know when you talk about it depends on the

audience right for some folks the idea of hacking drones will be well of course they're hacking drones they'll be very well versed in

and perhaps that's the wired audience will know about all these things but for the general public

they may have no idea that people are hacking robots they're using AI to script you know denial

of service attacks and people are already messing around with synthetic biology for you know

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