A Hacker's Mind Quotes

“we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”
― Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

“creature in the natural world. And, like many of the hacks in”
― Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

“In 2016, the Georgia Institute of Technology published a study on human trust in robots that employed a non-anthropomorphic robot to assist participants in navigating through a building, providing directions such as “This way to the exit.” First, participants interacted with the robot in a normal setting to experience its performance, which was deliberately poor. Then, they had to decide whether or not to follow the robot’s commands in a simulated emergency. In the latter situation, all twenty-six participants obeyed the robot’s directional advice, despite having observed just moments before that it had lousy navigational skills. The degree of trust they placed in this machine was striking: when the robot pointed to a dark room with no clear exit, the majority of people obeyed it, rather than safely exiting by the door through which they had entered. The researchers conducted similar experiments with other robots that seemed to malfunction. Again, subjects followed these robots’ emergency directions, apparently abandoning their common sense. It seems that robots can naturally hack our trust.”
― Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

“Over twenty years ago, I wrote “Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.”
― Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

“when the Russians stole it from that agency.”
― Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

“It’s not that math can solve the world’s problems. It’s just that the world’s problems would be easier to solve if everyone just knew a little bit more math.”
― Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back