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Challenge Everything - AI, Raves and Nuclear Subs - Interview with Mike Hawkes, digital inventor.
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- The Collators
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- Nov 19, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 5871
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Summary
From Tandy Radioshack to nuclear submarines, this episode traces an extraordinary journey through the intersections of technology, curiosity, and courage. Mark and Howard talk with Mike Hawkes, a technologist, inventor, and pioneer of secure digital systems whose career began in fixing computers in a local store and ended up influencing the security architecture behind global online transactions that we all use. This is a very human story, with ebbs and flows of good and bad. Innovation, hard work and opportunity, but also cybercrime, litigation and loss. Shownotes, transcript and more at https://thecollators.com