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

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Jennifer Lawrence was having a rough Labor Day weekend. The Academy Award winner was one of several celebrities who woke one morning in 2014 to find that their most private pictures—many of which showed them in the nude—were being splashed about on the Internet. Social engineering has been around for millennia. But it’s evolved and developed dramatically. Learn its history and how to stay safe in this resource. Read More

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The problem is that if you know where to look, all that information is available to just about anyone. The danger of living within a digital surveillance state isn't so much that the data is being collected (there's little we can do about that) but what is done with the data once it is collected. In this book I'll make the case that each and every one of us is being watched, at home and out in the world—as you walk down the street, sit at a café, or drive down the highway. Your computer, your phone, your car, your home alarm system, even your refrigerator are all potential points of access into your private life.The first question Oliver put to Snowden in Moscow was: What did you hope to accomplish? Snowden answered that he wanted to show the world what the NSA was doing—collecting data on almost everyone. When Oliver showed him the interviews from Times Square, in which one person after another professed not to know who Snowden was, his response was, "Well, you can't have everyone well informed." Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. Social Media Disable the auto synchronization. You might accidentally leave it open to others. Be vigilent when using a public terminal. Be careful when you’re using a shared service like family plan. Data can get synchronized and content from your past will also appear on another device. Set up multiple users if possible, and keep the administrative access to yourself. But similar information about anyone can be found for a small lookup fee. And it's perfectly legal.

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The same is true of the many personal details about each and every one of us that are currently being collected and stored, often without our noticing. Most of us simply don't know how easy it is for others to view these details about us or even where to look. And because we don't see this information, we might believe that we are invisible to our exes, our parents, our schools, our bosses, and even our governments. You may think you don't need to worry about this. Trust me: you do. I hope that by the end of this book you will be both well-informed and prepared enough to do something about it. In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening.” SMS text is proclaimed to be deleted within days by multiple carriers in the US. But traces can still be found and messages have been restored in the past. They are not as secure as you think. Whenever I speak before large crowds—no matter the size of the room—I usually have one person who challenges me on this fact. After one such event I was challenged by a very skeptical reporter.The Jennifer Lawrence story dominated the slow Labor Day weekend news cycle in 2014. It was part of an event called theFappening, a huge leak of nude and nearly nude photographs of Rihanna, Kate Upton, Kaley Cuoco, Adrianne Curry, and almost three hundred other celebrities, most of them women, whose cell-phone images had somehow been remotely accessed and shared. While some people were, predictably, interested in seeing these photos, for many the incident was an unsettling reminder that the same thing could have happened to them. Technology is increasingly present in our lives, and this allows us to be more connected than ever before. However, the greater number of devices we use also means that there are more ways for people to access our personal information. The Internet of Things has created an array of smart products from cars to household appliances, and each one comes with its own unique vulnerabilities. Wired опубликовало хорошо аргументированную статью уважаемого эксперта по безопасности Мокси Марлинспайка, который говорит о том, что в США федеральным преступлением может оказаться нечто, казалось бы, столь незначительное, как, например, держать дома маленького омара. «Не важно, купили ли вы его в продуктовом магазине или кто-то его вам подарил, жив он или мертв, нашли ли вы его уже после того, как он умер собственной смертью, или же убили его в результате самозащиты. Вас могут посадить в тюрьму только за то, что это омар». Суть в том, что в США существует множество незначительных законов, за соблюдением которых никто никогда не следил, а вы, возможно, нарушаете их и даже не подозреваете об этом. Но теперь при этом существует след из данных, служащих уликой против вас, и всего в нескольких кликах от любого, кому они могут понадобиться.” Everyone interviewed in the Times Square segment agreed that people in the United States should be able to share anything—even a photo of a penis—privately over the Internet. Which was Snowden's basic point.