Bruce Schneier is a renowned security technologist who has written over one dozen books, including the New York Times bestseller Data and Goliath and Click Here to Kill Everybody. He teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"A Hacker's Mind… sheds vital light on the beginnings of our
journey into an increasingly complex world."
*Becky Hogge - Financial Times*
"Schneier sees everything from tax avoidance to electoral
gerrymandering as hacking and suggests that the hackers we should
worry about are not teenagers in hooded sweatshirts, but
accountants, lawyers and lobbyists in suits."
*Ethan Zuckerman - Prospect*
"An essential new perspective on hacking: the bad and the ugly, but
also a surprisingly optimistic way of using a hacker mentality to
solve society’s complex problems."
*Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford
University Cyber Policy Centre and member of European Parliament,
2009–2019*
"A Hacker’s Mind brilliantly explains how our society and democracy
are being shaped by people taking the ‘hacking’ mentality into
realms that weren’t designed to be hacked. Bruce Schneier shows how
hacking, the tool of the rebel and the outsider, can also be used
by the rich and powerful to win in business and politics, at great
cost to the civic commitment needed for our free society. A great
read and an important book!"
*Timothy H. Edgar, author of Beyond Snowden*
"They say that rules are made to be broken, but more often rules
are gamed, finessed, worked around, or subverted—in short, hacked.
No one is better equipped than Bruce Schneier to explain how this
often-perverse use of human ingenuity can undermine the
institutions that civilized life depends on. A Hacker’s Mind is an
important source of new insights on the forces that can sap the
vigor and integrity of modern society."
*Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and author of Rationality*
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