Renowned security technologist and New York Times bestselling author Bruce Schneier chats with Trey Elling about A HACKER'S MIND: HOW THE POWERFUL BEND SOCIETY'S RULES, AND HOW TO BEND THEM BACK. Topics include:
- A definition of hacking (1:03)
- The “Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich” tax hack (2:30)
- Defending against ‘bad’ hacks (3:34)
- Why kids are such natural hackers (9:06)
- Hacking the airlines (12:05)
- Hacking sports (18:09)
- Hacking heaven in the 1500s (24:51)
- A simple computer financial exchange hack (26:47)
- Luxury real estate as a money-laundering hack for the super-rich (28:05)
- ‘Too big to fail’ as a hack (29:29)
- Venture Capital funding as a hack (34:36)
- How Uber hacks the system (37:09)
- How elected officials hack lawmaking (39:20)
- Why US elections are so expensive (42:39)
- Antitrust laws as a solutions to social media companies hacking cognitive systems (49:20)
- Solving the political bot problems (52:22)
- How AI will take hacking to a completely different level (54:55)
