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Complete Guide to Internet Privacy, Anonymity & Security
Fully updated and revised, this leading guide on Internet privacy, anonymity and security contains all the practical information you need to inform and protect yourself. In this comprehensive yet easy-to-read guide for Windows users, you will quickly learn how
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260 pages, Paperback
First published July 30, 2011
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April 9, 2020
Need some updating but scary stuff.
July 25, 2013
This is an excellent start for anyone interested in digitally securing themselves. Though you can never be 100% secure while connected to the Internet, there are plenty of ways to severely reduce the chance of being tracked, hacked, or jacked.
All of the basics are here: ill-ware prevention, safeguarding private information from theft/surveillance, protecting all ports in and out of your computer and WiFi (i.e. realizing that passwords are merely deterrents), anonymity, PRISM-breaking, encryption beyond recognition, Usenet, Tor, P2P(s), and shedding light in areas of your computer that are ignored by the registry, undeleters, or free-space wipers.
Does any of that sound foreign or technical? If so, you'll appreciate how the author explains concepts in simple and easily-digestible terms without page-upon-boring-page of needless technical clutter. He clearly defines jargon before using it. And the solutions he presents are not intimidating.
Computer nerds like myself will mostly find this book to be more of a structured refresher. Which, I'm rediscovering, is so much nicer than wading through the endless mounds of crap that web-searching provides. It was nice recalling some of the concepts I had long buried, and I even learned several new and excellent ones. And I enjoyed some of his software selections as well, especially since the plethora of tools (and junk-ware) available today can make decision-making a tedious process.
I recommend this book for anyone using the Internet, whether ridiculously paranoid, naively content, or anywhere in between.
All of the basics are here: ill-ware prevention, safeguarding private information from theft/surveillance, protecting all ports in and out of your computer and WiFi (i.e. realizing that passwords are merely deterrents), anonymity, PRISM-breaking, encryption beyond recognition, Usenet, Tor, P2P(s), and shedding light in areas of your computer that are ignored by the registry, undeleters, or free-space wipers.
Does any of that sound foreign or technical? If so, you'll appreciate how the author explains concepts in simple and easily-digestible terms without page-upon-boring-page of needless technical clutter. He clearly defines jargon before using it. And the solutions he presents are not intimidating.
Computer nerds like myself will mostly find this book to be more of a structured refresher. Which, I'm rediscovering, is so much nicer than wading through the endless mounds of crap that web-searching provides. It was nice recalling some of the concepts I had long buried, and I even learned several new and excellent ones. And I enjoyed some of his software selections as well, especially since the plethora of tools (and junk-ware) available today can make decision-making a tedious process.
I recommend this book for anyone using the Internet, whether ridiculously paranoid, naively content, or anywhere in between.
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