After repeatedly failing to find a room on the campus of Carnegie Mellon that is silent enough to record our podcast in, we asked ourselves this question. Because every little sound messing up our pristine recording the spinning of computer fans, the constancy of indoor climate control, the buzz of traffic filtering in from outside seemed to be a product of the modern age.

FORE Systems Professor, Computer Science. And Engineering and Public Policy. Associate Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy. Director, CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. Co-director, MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. I was on leave from CMU in 2016 to serve as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission.