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A Hacker's Mind

21 Aug 2024 - 21 Aug 2024
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    • book by Bruce Schneier
    • Schneier has a rather idiosyncratic and expansive definition of hacking. In this book, hacking is any effort to try to subvert the purpose of a system by exploiting flaws in its structure:
      • Hack: a clever,unintended exploitation of a system that (a) subverts the rules or norms of the system, (b) at the expense of someone else affected by the system.
    • So most of the hacks described here aren't particularly technological; they are things like finding legal loopholes or bugs in the rules for frequent-flyer miles programs, and the like.
    • Venture capital as such is not a hack, but VC markets like Uber and food delivery services are because they subvert market dynamics (?) p100