Episode 90 - Wired for Security with Wired magazine's Lily Hay Newman

Lily Hay Newman is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking. She previously worked as a technology reporter at Slate magazine and was the staff writer for Future Tense, a publication and project of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Additionally her work has appeared in Gizmodo, Fast Company, IEEE Spectrum, and Popular Mechanics. She lives in New York City.

In this episode we dig deep into Lily's journey, Security in Open Source, and the finer things in life like our favorite NY pizza joints by the slice!   Truly a pleasure to speak to Lily!

Timeline Topics

00:00 -  Opener/Sponsors

00:14 -  Intro to Lily Hey Newman from Wired Magazine

00:28 - Lily's Journey  

07:01 - the Overall process of writing a tech article

11:37 - Pitches that get picked up.... or didnt.

13:55 - Writers block and how do you get out of it.

16:34 - Writing for Information Security

21:58 - Sources - what makes for a good source?

23:32 -  Is Open Source the future of Security?

27:13 - What would Lily write if she didn't write for Infosec

29:40 - NY Pizza Slice discussion.

30:28 - What work is Lily most proud of.

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