97. "Hacking" the Legal System: Dr. Bruce Schneier (World-renowned Security Expert and Blogger)
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Ethical hacking is essential in the tech world as it exposes the holes and bugs in systems before bad people can use them. This same mindset can be applied to the legal system in order to “hack” it before "black hat" hackers exploit the problems. In this episode, Dr. Bruce Schneier (full bio below) explains this philosophy and the steps to apply it.Topics:

• What are **public-interest technologists? **
• Hacking the legal system
• Practical hacking
• **The Big Tech monopoly **
• Surveillance Capitalism
• What can the next generation do?
• What** books have had an impact on Dr. Schneier**
• What advice Dr. Schneier has for teenagers

**Bruce Schneier **is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including *Click Here to Kill Everybody *-- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter, Crypto-Gram, and blog, Schneier on Security, are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC andVerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.**Socials! -***Lessons from Interesting People *substack: https://taylorbledsoe.substack.com/)Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/)Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4Moon)Taylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/)YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXk)