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Audio: Is This A Hack? Beating The Customer Service Phone Line. Bruce Schneier, Author of “A Hacker’s Mind”
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What is hacking? We asked Bruce Schneier, New York Times best-selling author of “A Hacker’s Mind, which answers the question. In this episode, we cover an “ingenious hack,” according to The Daily Mail, that “helps callers bypass the endless automated questions now used by most major firms’ helplines and get straight through to a human being.”
Audio: No Name Podcast with Bruce Schneier
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Bruce Schneier spoke with Ruslan Kiyanchuk on the No Name Podcast.
Audio: Is This A Hack? Generating Income From Your Home. Bruce Schneier, Author of “A Hacker’s Mind”
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What is hacking? We asked Bruce Schneier, New York Times best-selling author of “A Hacker’s Mind,” which answers the question. In this episode, we cover the phenomenon known as “house hacking,” which is—according to an article from Rocket Mortgage—“a modern lifestyle choice that borrows heavily from old-school ways and has been reimagined with the help of modern home-sharing platforms.”
Bruce Schneier Wants to Recreate Democracy
Arguing that American democracy has been hacked, the computer security expert doesn’t want to just fiddle on the margins when it comes to re-envisioning what a new 21st-century American democracy should look like.
Like many people cooped up at home during COVID-19, Bruce Schneier had a pandemic project. In this case, it was a new book called A Hacker’s Mind, which encourages readers to apply the hacker mentality to our various social, political, economic, and legal systems. Schneier’s work on the book sparked deeper thinking about the suitability of our centuries-old democratic processes and institutions and whether they were still up to the task in our ever-increasing polarized and fractured political climate.
“Democracy has been hacked, mostly for the worse,” Schneier, a computer security specialist and privacy expert who is a faculty affiliate at the Ash Center, is quick to note. “Our democracy in the United States is really just not suited to the task anymore.” But if American democracy is no longer up to snuff in Schneier’s mind, the question quickly arises: What should a new American democracy look like?…
Audio: Thought Leadership: Bruce Schneier on ‘A Hacker’s Mind’
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Welcome to Cyber Security America, the podcast where we delve deep into the world of cybersecurity and provide insights on past trends, current challenges, and areas for improvement. Our goal is to help you stay informed and prepared for the next cyber threat. In this episode, we have a very special guest, Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, known as a “security guru” by The Economist. With over a dozen books and hundreds of articles and academic papers under his belt, Bruce is a true legend in the information security field. He’s also the author of the latest book, “A Hacker’s Mind,” where he takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society. During our conversation, Bruce provides us with valuable insights on the current state of cybersecurity. He discusses the impact of coordinated takedowns by federal forces on ransomware actors, and how less payment transactions on the blockchain related to ransomware actors is a promising sign. He also highlights an emerging threat, Black Lotus, and shares his thoughts on how artificial intelligence thinking like a hacker could be catastrophic. This episode is packed with expert tips and lessons learned. So tune in now to Cyber Security America and join the conversation…
Audio: Is This a Hack? Theme Park Rides. Bruce Schneier, Author of “A Hacker’s Mind”
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What is hacking? We asked Bruce Schneier, New York Times best-selling author of A Hacker’s Mind, which answers the question. In this episode, we cover a viral story from the New York Post, in which two parents “take matters into [their] own hands,” for their son, who is too short for several theme park rides, by crafting a special pair of shoes that made him taller.
Audio: A Hacker’s Mind. New Book. Bruce Schneier, Security Technologist and Cryptographer.
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Bruce Schneier is a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. He is the New York Times best-selling author of the book, “Data and Goliath,” and author of the new book, “A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back.” In this episode, Schneier joins host Steve Morgan to discuss his new book, deep dive into a few chapters, and more.
Audio: Inside the “Hacker” Culture of the Rich and Powerful
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When you picture a hacker, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
For most, the word elicits images of a person in a dark hoodie in a darker room hunched over a computer furiously typing lines of code. However, when it comes to our wider culture of hacking, it’s often the most wealthy and powerful people who “hack” societal rules.
That interpretation of hacking is the focus of the new book, “A Hacker’s Mind: How the Rich and Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back” by technologist and “security guru” Bruce Schneier. He spoke with Marketplace’s David Brancaccio about how things like tax loopholes exemplify how some powerful people subvert the rules…
Audio: “Hacker’s Mind” Meets Lawyer’s Mind
Interviewing Bruce Schneier in episode 444 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
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This bonus episode offers an interview of Bruce Schneier, the prolific security guru, about his latest book, A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back. As usual with Bruce’s books, it is a good read, technically up to date and approachable. Much of the book, and of the interview, explores Bruce’s view that hacking—subverting the intent of a system of rules without actually breaking the rules—has much in common with lawyering. Finding ways to subvert a Microsoft program, Bruce argues, is not much different from exploiting loopholes in airline mileage programs or finding ways to count cards at a casino without letting the casino know what you’re doing. And those exploits are not really so different from what lawyers do when they hunt for unexpected tax loopholes to shelter income. The analogy only goes so far, as Bruce admits. It is often hard to actually define the “intent” that is being subverted, or to draw a line between subversion within the rules and just plain rule-breaking. And hacking, for all its underdog-beats-The-Man romance, is just a tool, available to everyone, including The Man. The world’s best computer hackers mostly work for governments or corporations these days, and the same is true for the world’s best legal hackers…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.