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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

I'm Sonal and Michael and I today are interviewing Dan Bonnet, who is our new professor

and residence at Andrews and Horowitz.

And for those of you don't know about this, for the first time ever, we had a professor

in residence last year, and it was a new initiative for us as a way of

bridging ties between academia, industry, startups, because the reality is that some of the

best and most interesting ideas are coming out of, and the long-term thinking ideas are coming

out of universities. Welcome, Dan. Thanks. It's a pleasure to be here. You're our second

professor in residence, but what are you a professor of? Yeah, so I'm a professor of computer

science at Stanford University. My area of research is computer security and cryptography. I've

been at Stanford now for 18 years. I teach mostly computer security and cryptography classes and it's a fantastic

area to be working in. There's lots of interest in this from industry now, from obviously

in the, even in the policy circles, it's hard to believe. But even the president came, President

Obama came to campus a few months ago, and he was talking about

computer security. I couldn't believe it, but the president was talking about things like

malware and keyboard loggers. You say you couldn't believe that. Is that because the political

environment has changed for obvious reasons with the Snowden revelations and everything that came down

after that, or is that just unusual for other reasons?

I think Snowden might be actually a small part of it. I think the bigger issue is that more and more of our lives are going online, and as more of our data is available on computers, it's obviously

also available to be hacked and stolen. And so computer security has kind of become part of our

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