Overview

"It's not just computers--hacking is everywhere. 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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"""An easily digestible, mind-opening treatise on how hacking exacerbates inequality."" -- ""Associated Press"" ""An eye-opening, maddening book that offers hope for leveling a badly tilted playing field."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Elegantly probing the mechanics of exploitation...with lessons that extend far beyond the tech world, this has much to offer."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""He will make you rethink your assumptions."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""If his message is received, our social systems will soon begin to evolve to interact with hacking with greater agility, nuance, and even―in some instances―appreciation."" -- ""Science"" ""Sheds vital light on the beginnings of our journey into an increasingly complex world."" -- ""Financial Times (London)"""

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"Bruce Schneier is a renowned security technologist, called a ""security guru"" by the London Economist. He has written more than one dozen books, including the 2014 New York Times bestseller Data and Goliath. He teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash's guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney's Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renée Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly."

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