Yahoo's Sean Zadig on How to Raise a Hacker Safely and How Maybe AI Isn't Changing Everything

Update: 2025-11-05

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Yahoo CISO and Chief Paranoid Sean Zadig returns to the podcast for a discussion with Dennis Fisher about how to go about getting kids interested in technology and teaching them about hacking (in the broad, classical sense) safely (9:10 ). Then they talk about how rapidly the cybersecurity industry is changing and what effects AI is and is not having on offense, defense, and the job market (45:00 ).

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Yahoo's Sean Zadig on How to Raise a Hacker Safely and How Maybe AI Isn't Changing Everything

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Yahoo's Sean Zadig on How to Raise a Hacker Safely and How Maybe AI Isn't Changing Everything