A Hacker's Mind
How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
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Dan John Miller
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Bruce Schneier
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Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exploits “tax avoidance strategies.” And there is an entire industry of “black hat” hackers intent on finding exploitable loopholes in the tax code. We call them accountants and tax attorneys.
In A Hacker’s Mind, Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.
Once you learn how to notice hacks, you’ll start seeing them everywhere—and you’ll never look at the world the same way again. Almost all systems have loopholes, and this is by design. Because if you can take advantage of them, the rules no longer apply to you.
Unchecked, these hacks threaten to upend our financial markets, weaken our democracy, and even affect the way we think. And when artificial intelligence starts thinking like a hacker—at inhuman speed and scale—the results could be catastrophic.
But for those who would don the “white hat,” we can understand the hacking mindset and rebuild our economic, political, and legal systems to counter those who would exploit our society. And we can harness artificial intelligence to improve existing systems, predict and defend against hacks, and realize a more equitable world.
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- Herbert
- 07-05-23
imformative
Informative. Some examples and illustrations had a slight left leaning bias, and it would have been better if the author was more balanced.
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- 18-07-23
A very interesting read
This is one of the books that I will definitely listen to multiple times. .
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- Anthony C.
- 09-05-24
thought provoking
Good insights but author obviously had a political bias that came to the fore in the later half of the book.
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- Joe T
- 06-01-24
Interesting subject
A bit short on details,
Most of the me book was based on the author’s opinion with little evidence or examples to back them up.
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- Shez. N
- 22-02-23
An Interesting Read
Heard about this book from one of Joe rogans podcasts. one of his guests mentioned this book and how it explains methods of 'hacking' from wealthy people.
Naturally I was intrigued, this book has a lot of examples on how in modern day a lot of systems are being exploited/hacked. Not just our technological systems. Definitely recommend this to anyone.
The author has a clear concise way of getting his point across.
I used one of my monthly credits and I was not disappointed!
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- Ivan
- 27-01-24
Nothing to learn here
Many examples but nothing to learn. Very disappointing and boring. Waste of time and money.
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- julien
- 19-01-24
white man bad, blabla
the author basicaly thinks he invented the concept of strategy, while pushing low resolution leftist tropes. lame.
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