On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset · Gwern.net
Defining the security/hacker mindset as extreme reductionism: ignoring the surface abstractions and limitations to treat a system as a source of parts to manipulate into a different system, with different (and usually unintended) capabilities.
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