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October 29, 2011 10:11 pm GMT
I went down to the demonstration today, to get my fair share of bemusement. Occupy Wall Street seemed drizzly, dejected, and oddly disconnected from the world around it. I approve of their goals, and I think their message is very clear indeed, but I'm not so sure their methods are effective. We'll see. But they did spur me to go back and reread, of all things, some Mark Cuban.I don't usually have much time for Cuban, but in a post last year he made a really interesting point: "Wall Street is a platform. Its a platform to be exploited by every technological and intellectual means possible. The best analogy for traders? They are hackers. Just as hackers search for and exploit operating system and application shortcomings, traders do the same thing." Matt Taibbi, in a recent Rolling Stone piece, is far more adversarial -- "Wall Street Isn't Really Winning, It's Cheating" -- but he makes essentially the same point. Most of the "cheats" he cites are examples of hacking the system, rather than breaking the law. (The big exception being the now-infamous Abacus case, but intelligent people have argued otherwise.)It's worth noting that the tech world's attitude towards hacking the system, any system, generally ranges from "grudging respect" to "outright approval." Steve Jobs was a phone phreak. MIT memorializes its finest hacks. Mark Zuckerberg's famous FaceMash hack was the precursor to Facebook.
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In The Halls Of The Hedge Fund Hackers
I went down to the demonstration today, to get my fair share of bemusement. Occupy Wall Street seemed drizzly, dejected, and oddly disconnected from the world around it. I approve of their goals, and I think their message is very clear indeed, but I'm not so sure their methods are effective. We'll see. But they did spur me to go back and reread, of all things, some Mark Cuban.I don't usually have much time for Cuban, but in a post last year he made a really interesting point: "Wall Street is a platform. Its a platform to be exploited by every technological and intellectual means possible. The best analogy for traders? They are hackers. Just as hackers search for and exploit operating system and application shortcomings, traders do the same thing." Matt Taibbi, in a recent Rolling Stone piece, is far more adversarial -- "Wall Street Isn't Really Winning, It's Cheating" -- but he makes essentially the same point. Most of the "cheats" he cites are examples of hacking the system, rather than breaking the law. (The big exception being the now-infamous Abacus case, but intelligent people have argued otherwise.)It's worth noting that the tech world's attitude towards hacking the system, any system, generally ranges from "grudging respect" to "outright approval." Steve Jobs was a phone phreak. MIT memorializes its finest hacks. Mark Zuckerberg's famous FaceMash hack was the precursor to Facebook.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BDqFNI_l004/
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