A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

“A Hacker's Mind…sheds vital light on the beginnings of our journey into an increasingly complex world.” —Financial TimesIt’ s not just computers—hacking is everywhere.Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best- selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.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.