# Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm

Source: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/weaponized-design-and-the-digital-identity-event-horizon-with-cade-diehm

## Summary

Cade Diehm, Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congress, discusses Weaponised Design in a podcast interview with The Blockchain Socialist. Diehm defines it as cases where an interface or system harms its users while performing entirely within its expected behaviour. The conversation also covers his research on the brittleness of digital identity and his experience with early crypto. His career also includes Deloitte Australia, CoinJar and Tactical Tech.

## Article

I spoke to Cade Diehm, Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congress, an independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digital societies. His career also involves working at Deloitte Australia, as leading design for CoinJar, the largest crypto exchange in Australia and Tactical Tech.

I had him on to talk about his work on Weaponised Design (when an interface or system harms its users whilst performing entirely within its expected behaviour), his recent alarming research on the brittleness of digital identity and his experience with early crypto.

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## Comments

**rvolz.eth**: Apparently too critical 🤨 it's offline

**mishaderidder.eth**: It’s working perfectly for me! Maybe you’re smth is blocking it for you? VPN? Anyway it’s a great listen, Cade Diehm goes a long way back in crypto, build the first BTC crypto platform in Australia in 2012, and has interesting takes. 

**rvolz.eth**: now it's back, even for me