The Cyberlaw Podcast Creators & Guests

Stewart Baker is the host of The Cyberlaw Podcast.

Mieke Eoyang is a national security strategist. She was the Senior Vice President for Third Way's National Security Program. Currently, she hosts the podcast "To Catch A Hacker."Before joining Third Way, Mieke worked on Capitol Hill as Chief of Staff to Representative Anna Eshoo. Prior to that, she was the Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Ted Kennedy, the Subcommittee Staff Director on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and a Staff Member on the House Armed Services Committee. Mieke began her career as a legislative assistant in the office of Representative Pat Schroeder.Eoyang received her B.A. in American Studies from Wellesley College, and her J.D. from the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California.

Jason Fagone is a reporter at San Francisco Chronicle, and author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes.

Glenn S. Gerstell is a lawyer and technology writer. Currently, he is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, where he writes on technology and national security matters.From 2015 to 2020, Gerstell served as the General Counsel of the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Before that, he was a member of the US National Infrastructure Advisory Council and a Commissioner of the Washington, D.C. Homeland Security Commission.Gerstell received his B.A. from New York University and his J.D. from Columbia University.

Bruce Schneier is a cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer.

John Scott-Railton is a research whose work focuses on technological threats civil society, including targeted malware operations, cyber militias, and online disinformation.. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.Scott-Railton is best know for his collaboration with Bill Marczak that uncovered the the systematic use of Pegasus spyware to target civil society in several countries, including Mexico and the UAE.Previously, Scott-Railton has supported free and secure information flow with organizations such as The Voices Projects. He was also a fellow at Google Ideas / Jigsaw at Alphabet.

Julian Sanchez is a libertarian writer. He previously covered technology and privacy issues as the Washington editor for Ars Technica.

Nicholas Weaver is the senior researcher, networking and security at The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).

Jack Goldsmith is a lawyer and Harvard law school professor who has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law.

Elizabeth Goitein is an an attorney and public policy expert on presidential emergency powers, government surveillance, and government secrecy. Currently, she is senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program.Goitein's work has been appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Magazine, and The New Republic. She has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR, and she has testified on several occasions before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.

Maury Shenk is an entrepreneur, lawyer, investor, former managing partner of Steptoe, and co-founder & CEO of LearnerShape.

David S. Kris is a lawyer, he served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice, from 2009 to 2011.

Dmitri Alperovitch is a computer security industry executive. He is the co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike.

Fred Kaplan is an American author and journalist. His weekly "War Stories" column for Slate magazine covers international relations and U.S.

Ciaran Martin is the former Head of the UK's National Cybersecurity Centre, and Professor of Practice at Oxford University.

The Grugq, also known as Thaddeus E. Grugq, is a world renowned information security researcher with 15 years of industry experience. Grugq started his career at a Fortune 100 company, before transitioning to @stake, where he was forced to resign for publishing a Phrack article on anti-forensics. Since then the Grugq has presented on anti-forensics at dozens of international security conferences, as well as talks on numerous other security topics. As an independent information security consultant the Grugq has performed engagements for a wide range of customers, from startups to enterprises and the public sector. He has worked as a professional penetration tester, a developer, and a full time security researcher. The Grugq’s research has always been heavily biased towards counterintelligence aspects of information security. His research has been referenced in books, papers, magazines, and newspapers. Currently an independent researcher, the grugq is actively engaged in exploring the intersection of traditional tradecraft and the hacker skillset, learning the techniques that covert organisations use to operate clandestinely and applying them to the Internet.

David E. Sanger is an American journalist who is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times

Michael Daniel is the President and CEO at Cyber Threat Alliance.

Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein is a writer and lawyer. She currently co-directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program.Goitein has written reports for the Brennan Center and other publications. Her writing has been featured in the the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. She has appeared on television and radio shows such as the Rachel Maddow Show, All In with Chris Hayes, PBS NewsHour, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She has testified before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.Before coming to the Brennan Center, Goitein served as counsel to Senator Russ Feingold, and as a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice.Goitein graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.