A Hacker's Mind

"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 societys complex problems." -- Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Centre and member of European Parliament, 20092019 "A Hackers Mind brilliantly explains how our society and democracy are being shaped by people taking the hacking mentality into realms that werent 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 subvertedin 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 Hackers 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

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.