Hackers, wizards, and scientists

In his 2024 Black Hat talk , Moxie Marlinspike (the cryptographer and founder of Signal) spoke about some ways our world is different to the ones portrayed in fantasy stories like JK Rowling's Harry Potter books. Moxie starts by noting that these books ask us to imagine how exciting life would be if only we lived in a world where all one needed to do magical things was a magic wand and access to a…