Bruce Schneier
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A fellow at the Harvard Center for Internet and Society, Bruce Schneier has been called "one of the world's foremost security experts" (Wired). In Data and Goliath, Schneier offers a sobering look at government/corporate surveillance and the ever-rising threat to personal privacy and freedom.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It's not just computers—hacking is everywhere. 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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
You are under surveillance right now... your cell phone provider tracks your location, your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate the prices we're offered; governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, and put people in danger worldwide. Schneier shows what we can do to reform our government surveillance...