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A Hacker's Mind
- How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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- josh
- 07-03-2023
this book is amazing.
read it through, and find all sorts of mind bending hacks ..which you never new .or new hacks that we never knew lived in such a world .... skip this book at your own peril.
it's that nessassary.
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- Katalin Kish
- 24-12-2023
Insightful, easy to understand & practical
One of the most difficult aspects of being a cyber-crime victim is having to receive trivial advice on what "should" work, the prevalent assumption that cyber-crime victims must be incapable of doing basic technology-security right - while government/military-grade technology capabilities are flaunted by Australia's bikers, like toddlers show off a new puppy. Since at least 2019 in Melbourne, against a public servant crime witness who cannot be intimidated into silence. Last cyber-crime seconds ago on 26 Dec. 2023. This book is a must read if you want to know why cyber-crimes exist, and want to see a good example of expectation management. Technology is here to stay, and so is cyber-crime. The only viable strategy option is to learn to live with cyber-crime.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-07-2023
A book about people hacking finance, law and politics etc
Short examples about hacks people have used to get an advantage with no real word applications. Don’t expect to gain any deep understanding or knowledge
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- Axel Beckmann
- 18-08-2024
Biased and collectivist propaganda
Biased and collectivist propaganda, some interesting points but the author could help but slip in his nonsense collectivist beliefs.
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- joe
- 06-03-2023
Not what I expected
This book is a drawn out definition of what hacking is. Literally. Explaining what hacking is, with broad examples. Nothing much more to take from it other than “hacking exists, the Rich exploit it, and we should be wary of it”.
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