Greg Conti & Tom Cross - Adversarial Thinking: The Art of Dangerous Ideas $2,300 June 2025

DESCRIPTION: Hackers have a unique perspective on the world and in particular on the technological artifacts within it. When most people look at a high-tech system, they see what they were meant to see by the people who created it.  Hackers see technology as it truly is, not as it was meant to be, and this way of looking at things enables hackers to discover possibilities that were never intended in the first place.   For centuries, military and intelligence strategists have sought to view the world from a similar perspective - a perspective that can see the hidden possibilities and weaknesses in things and take advantage of them to create unexpected results. This unique course draws lessons from both the hacker community and from military thinking in order to deepen your ability to understand adversaries and see things the way that adversaries see them. Honing this skill is particularly valuable for people who are building technological systems that might be subject to misuse, and