David Kahn
February 3 2024David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this field. He...
Read moreSpeaking to the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
January 19 2024This is a fascinating story.
Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley to speak to Invisible Ink, the CIA’s creative writing...
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Ben Rothke’s Review of A Hacker’s Mind
December 23 2023Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”
Read moreLLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear
September 16 2023Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. I’m particularly interested in a taxonomy of his ethical arguments—please...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind News
March 25 2023My latest book continues to sell well. Its ranking hovers between 1,500 and 2,000 on Amazon. It’s been spied in airports. Reviews are consistently good. I have been enjoying giving...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind Is Now Published
February 11 2023Tuesday was the official publication date of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. It broke into the 2000s on...
Read moreA Hacker’s Mind News
February 4 2023A Hacker’s Mind will be published on Tuesday.
I have done a written interview and a podcast interview about the book. It’s been chosen as a...
Read morePublisher’s Weekly Review of A Hacker’s Mind
January 21 2023Publisher’s Weekly reviewed A Hacker’s Mind—and it’s a starred review!
“Hacking is something that the rich and powerful do, something that reinforces existing power structures,” contends security technologist...
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Booklist Review of A Hacker’s Mind
January 15 2023Booklist reviews A Hacker’s Mind:
Author and public-interest security technologist Schneier (Data and Goliath, 2015) defines a “hack” as an activity allowed by a system “that subverts the rules...
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New Book: A Hacker’s Mind
November 12 2022I have a new book coming out in February. It’s about hacking.
A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about...
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