How Carolyn Meinel Predicted the 2001 Code Red Worm Attack

How Superforecaster Carolyn Meinel Predicted the 2001 Code Red Worm Attack

What do you get when you combine a veteran superforecaster with an experienced hacker and innovator? You get our guest for episode 4 of The Right Side of Maybe!

This week we spoke with Carolyn Meinel—CTO of ISIT Austin, hacker and author, and top-ranked superforecaster—about her experience in the hacking world, forecasting best practices and frameworks, as well as Carolyn’s prescient prediction about the major Code Red worm attack of 2001 which turned out on the right side of maybe. If you have interest in the intersection of forecasting and cyberwarfare, or want to be graced with interesting anecdotes about the science world from the 1970s to 2000s, this is the episode for you.

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