9780393866667-0393866661-A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

ISBN-13: 9780393866667
ISBN-10: 0393866661
Author: Bruce Schneier
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393866667
ISBN-10: 0393866661
Author: Bruce Schneier
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

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A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back (ISBN-13: 9780393866667 and ISBN-10: 0393866661), written by authors Bruce Schneier, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2023. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.05.

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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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