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Podcast: The ITSPmagazine Podcast
Episode: From Hacker Defense to Civil Liberties: Threat Modeling Meets Constitutional Law | A Black Hat USA 2025 Keynote Conversation with Jennifer Granick | On Location Coverage with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli
Description: At Black Hat USA 2025, Jennifer Granick—Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union—takes the keynote stage to make a bold case: we are long overdue for a new threat model, one that sees government surveillance not as a background risk, but as a primary threat to constitutional privacy.Granick draws from decades of experience defending hackers, fighting surveillance overreach, and engaging with the security community since DEFCON 3. She challenges the audience to reconsider outdated assumptions about how the Fourth Amendment is interpreted and applied. While technology has made it easier than ever for gove...