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Hey, we've got a big moat. if we can identify, you can block it or in a spam folder or do something else with it. >> i want to pivot and talk about this other major hacking story today. nbc, of course, reporting russia's president vladimir putin played an active role in trying to influence our election. again, you were the chief technology officer under president obama. this appears to have been something that we knew about a lot earlier than i think a lot of folks realized. how should we respond from a cybersecurity standpoint? >> well, let's begin with an assumption which is there are people...

We now know that's not true. it's a crazy overestimate. the conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. >> information overload also leads to something we've all experienced, decision fatigue. it's why in nearly every picture, albert einstein is wearing a gray suit, why steve jobs always wore a black turtle neck and mark zuckerberg is almost always sporting his gray t-shirt. they didn't want to waste valuable energy making inconsequentialedne decisions a their clothes. >> if you're making a bunch of little decisions, like do i read this e-mail now or later? file it? do i forward i...

We've always paid to send mail. now the way in which we send mail has changed. why should we not still be paying? >> the fundamental issue of the cost of sending unalthough as i say ted mail is super low so even if one in a million people responds, it's still worth it for the spammers to send it to you. we have these amazing things called private companies that have actually mostly stalled this problem. these days, most of this unsolicited mail you get goes into a spam folder and those services are getting better and better over time. we had ideas like an e-scam, some means of taxing e-mails p...

Mail has changed. why should we not still be paying? >> the fundamental issue of the cost of sending a piece of mail is super low. so even if one in a million people responds, it's still worth it for the spammers to send it to you. we have these amazing things called private companies that have actually mostly stalled this problem. these days, most of this unsolicited mail you get goes into a spam folder and those services are getting better and better over time. we had ideas like an e-scam, some means of taxing e-mails proposed in the mid '90s and turns out they weren't really necessary. a co...

Taxing cars to keep horse and bugies business. why are we taxing the great new thing so that we can prop up the bad old thing? it's completely backwards. i me that it's coming in berkeley, which is not a punch line, it's the home of the free speech movement 50 years ago, for crying out loud. and we're going to put a punitive tax on one of the greatest free speech instruments in our lifetime. it's absurd. >> but ryan, there is something to be said. i hear your point about the horse and buggy. what about this? we've always paid to send mail. now the way in which we send mail has changed. why sho...