RSAC APJ - Interview with Tom Keenan

Overview: **Tom Keenan** taught Canada's first computer security course in 1977 and, since then, has been a systems programmer, computer science professor, expert witness in technology cases, and the author of the best-selling book *Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy*. He has spoken about hacking related topics on five continents. Tom was educated at Columbia University, earning four degrees in philosophy, mathematics, engineering, and education. He is a currentl

Key Topics: y a professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape at the University of Calgary, where he teaches courses on smart communities. He is also an adjunct professor of computer science where he teaches courses in computer security and cyberwarfare. He is a fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and board chair of the Information and Communications Technology Council of Canada. He was also one of the folks who attended the early *2600* meetings in Manhattan where people ran to the bank of telephones in the Citicorp Building to try phone hacks they had just learned.<br&gt