The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

by Kevin D. Mitnick

The most liberal attitude toward drones is perhaps found in Colorado, where civilians can legally shoot drones out of the sky.

Moshe Greenshpan is the CEO of the Israel-and Las Vegas–based facial-recognition company Face-Six. Their software Churchix is used for—among other things—taking attendance at churches. The idea is to help churches identify the congregants who attend irregularly so as to encourage them to come more often and to identify the congregants who do regularly attend so as to encourage them to donate more money to the church.

One trick for getting free Internet at any hotel is to call any other room—perhaps the one across the hall—posing as room service. If the hotel uses caller ID, just use the house phone in the lobby. Tell the party answering the phone that her two burgers are on the way. When the guest says she didn’t place an order, you politely ask for her surname to fix the error. Now you have both the room number (you called it) and the surname, which is all that’s needed to authenticate you (a nonpaying guest) as a legitimate guest at that hotel.