Incognito Toolkit - Tools, Apps, and Creative Methods for Remaining Anonymous, Private, and Secure While Communicating, Publishing, Buying, and Researching Online

by Rob Robideau

There are many books that will tell you what to do - use prepaid burner phones and anonymous email accounts, encrypt your communications and data, make your purchases anonymously - but Incognito Toolkit will show you how and give you the tools to actually do it. With laws getting stricter by the day and making it more and more difficult to properly protect your personal information, you need the most up-to-date information and tools available and that's what you will find in Incognito Toolkit!Don't let snoopers, investigators, and scammers look over your shoulder or track you while you work and play on the internet!Learn about the tools that will help you use the internet anonymously, privately, and securely to protect assets, avoid social stigmas, and make you safer. This book is full of information that large corporations, scammers, and nosy governments don't want you to find! You won't find a collection of techniques and creative methods like this anywhere else!Covered in Incognito - Making truly anonymous online purchases - Shortcomings of Bitcoin - Encrypting communications - Encryption for online file storage solutions - Locking down and monitoring your hardware - Browser Fingerprinting - Using TOR and VPNs - Creative Text and File Steganography Techniques - Critical Techniques for Publishing Anonymously - Cleaning photo and video metadata - Dealing with tracking cookiesUpdated December 4th, 2013 with new information about credit card skimmers, TOR hardware devices, and more!Scroll up and click the "Look Inside" feature on the top left hand side of the page!

Genres: Reference, Technology, Self Help, Nonfiction

233 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2013

About the author

Rob Robideau is a loving husband and father, pastor, pilot, writer, and more. He enjoys serving the Lord alongside his family and lifting up the name of Christ through speaking and writing.

He has flown bush planes in Alaska, jumped out of perfectly good airplanes, skied the Andes, never owned a television, broken more bones than he can remember, graduated from a college, and commutes on a motorcycle.

Reviews

[CF · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good set of tools, tips and tricks.

[Monqeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

It changed me.

[Theodore R Gagliano · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too hard to follow

I was looking for a guidebook to disappearing. This book is about data and internet connections . I am not interested in this. Time wasted.

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a connected world, there may be times we need to connect without anyone knowing. Rob Robideau has created this fantastic resource on doing things online—communicating, researching, just about anything—in secure, private, anonymous ways. He opens with a number of non-criminal use cases, including a need to share information with law enforcement personnel without endangering yourself or family, avoiding scammers and hackers, missionaries in oppressive countries, and victims of abuse needing to reach out to family and friends.

In well-organized chapters with lots of subheadings and helpful screenshots, Robideau discusses topics like anonymity on the internet, private communications, social networking, and even shopping online anonymously and securely. Throughout, there are multiple options for handling these issues on multiple platforms (PC, Mac, Android, iOS).

The book walks through the steps to make this anonymity and security happen, but it’s not for beginners. Some computer know-how is involved. (True computer beginners seeking anonymity and security should either stay off computers or find someone they trust to help.) But if you have the patience to read and follow instructions, you can employ the strategies in this book.

There is an extensive appendix with links to, and summary descriptions of, resources and programs. This book is an excellent resource worth owning.

[RealDeadpool,The · Rating 4 out of 5]

A grain of Salt doesn't please much. But it can be worth a lot.

The key word pragmatic is essential to understand in this case. I feel that with an open mind and a touch of curiosity this is an enjoyable reference. For just how much longer? We'll surely find out. As much as this felt like a paranoid read, that it feels like something one can practice with a little free time. I have to say that the level of effort required this read points out to adapt to in order to acquire if even remotly close to the author's utopic depiction of "total anonimity", clearly doesn't appeal to the common web surfer. Highly entertaining and comprehemsive read nonetheless.

[Josh Jacobs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely worth a read if you're not already security conscious, there's a lot of good ideas in here. If you are already aware of PGP, TOR and other such technologies, it's a decent recap but it won't blow your socks off with any fantastic new ideas.

[J.B. Dabo · Rating 5 out of 5]

how can you not love a book that saves you from corporate intrusion. This book has tons of tools for anyone to use to be anonymous online.

[Carlos Carrasco · Rating 2 out of 5]

It provides useful tips to be anonymous but the content does not seem to be well organized.

[Clement Ying · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good principles,

But,

Not the most important principles.