Episode · Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova · 2025-03-27
Books mentioned on Group Chat Protocols, Bracket Updates, and thoughts on the WNBA
This week, Nate and Maria discuss The Atlantic’s bombshell report about how its top editor was added to a national security group chat, and get into why the most major security risk is never technology–it’s always people.
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The confidence game
“one of the things I learned when I was um back when I was working on the conf Confidence Game um I actually talk to a lot of people who do um information security”