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

By [The Blockchain Socialist](https://paragraph.com/@theblockchainsocialist.eth) · 2025-10-21

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I spoke to [Cade Diehm](https://shiba.computer/),  Head of Research at the [World Ethical Data Foundation](https://worldethicaldata.org/) and founder of [New Design Congress](https://newdesigncongress.org/about), an independent research group confronting the [gap](https://www.ruinedby.design/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [between](https://longnow.org/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [what](https://www.humanetech.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [is](https://ideo.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [said](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [to](https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [be](https://waymo.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) [happening](https://antikythera.org/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) and what is [_actually happening_](https://newdesigncongress.org/everything/) 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](https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/30-on-weaponised-design/) (when an interface or system harms its users whilst performing entirely within its expected behaviour), his [recent alarming research](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2024/identifying-the-digital-self/) on the brittleness of digital identity and his experience with early crypto.

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