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How the powerful hack the system
2024-09-15
[YouTube] Hacking is more than just a term for rogue programmers breaking into computer systems. Bruce Schneier, adjunct lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, thinks hacking goes well beyond the digital realm. Tax accountants hack the tax code by finding loopholes for their clients. Silicon Valley hacks the taxi system with rideshare companies. And now, the biggest tech companies are using artificial intelligence to hack their way further into our lives. His latest book, "A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back," explores the ways that society is manipulated by those seeking and exploiting loopholes.

On this episode of Behind the Book, Bruce Schneier discusses how hacking has become so prevalent in so many areas of society, and how we can rebuild our political, economic and legal systems to resist it.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Their being punished skid, that and west siders see the east side as a fiefdom.

https://apnews.com/article/----f87e93ebfa3cd4cac584bd4d41426169
Posted by: Jefe101   2024-09-15 15:28  

#8  Informative YouTube on well plugging in Oklahoma.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-09-15 14:54  

#7  Never heard of a well costing that much to plug. Landowners share responsibility for knowing where these old well casing are located. Walk the woods or visit the county cleark's office. Permits are on file, many dating back over 100 years.

If you've got a bad well plug, you'd better look after it. Oil field water flooding can pressurize a formation and cause a huge mess. If it seeps oil or water, it's bad. If it smells of sulfur, it's bad and may need attention. Land owners can be held liable under certain circumstances.

If you're a smoker, leave your Lucky Strikes back at the truck.

Posted by: Besoeker   2024-09-15 13:59  

#6  Large Student Loan Servicer Banned From Service, Ordered To Pay $120 Million Settlement
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-09-15 10:20  

#5  Next generation orphaned oil wells...

Tri Cities wind/solar project moving forward after Friday vote
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-09-15 09:59  

#4  State's $100,000+ cost to plug orphan wells 'outrageously enormous'
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-09-15 09:57  

#3  Tax accountants hack the tax code by finding loopholes for their clients

Those 'loopholes' are put there intentionally by the same politicians that demagogue on class warfare for votes from the proles in order to extort money from the patricians to protect what's theirs in the form of 'campaign funds'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-09-15 09:56  

#2  Are Indonesia and Vietnam's multibillion-dollar clean energy deals stuck? Experts say not yet
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-09-15 09:40  

#1  'Mind-boggling': Billions gone and little to show for it years after rampant COVID fraud
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-09-15 09:33  

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