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Invasion of Privacy! Big Brother and the Company Hackers

ISBN: 1592000436
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 135

Authors: Michael Weber

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Invasion of Privacy - Big Brother and the Company Hackers
• Introduction
• This Book is for You If
• How this Book is Organized
• Keeping the Book s Content Current
• Part I: The Invasion
• Chapter 1: The Death of Moore s Law
• The Tech Boom, Moore s Law, and the Next Killer App
• The Tech Slowdown
• Spy Technology
• The Dirty Little Secret
• Chapter 2: The Target is You
• The Player Table
• Privacy Zones
• Chapter 3: Opting Out
• The Digital Doppelganger: Garbage In, Garbage Out
• Chapter 4: Convergence
• How a Simple Coupon Can Lead to Your Worst Nightmare
• Chapter 5: Tactical and Practical Digital Defense (Part 1)
• Turnabout is Fair Play
• Resourcefulness
• Do Not Call List Update
• Chapter 6: Surveillance
• Spyware
• I Spy
• Chapter 7: The Cheap Toothpick Syndrome
• Social Insecurity
• Corporate Heinie-Think
• Chapter 8: The Metaphysics of Hacking
• The Three Sides of the Hacker Pyramid
• The Sport of Hacking
• The Business of Hacking
• The Hacker Pyramid
• The Other Side of the Hacker Pyramid
• The IT Pyramid
• Chapter 9: Media Meltdown
• The Five-Legged Octopus
• The Sixth Leg
• Nobody Owns Cyberspace
• The Media Meltdown
• The New-Media Octopus
• The Media Knot
• The Z Factor: Warez, Sitez, Crackz, and Piratez
• The Politics of Piracy
• Microsoft versus Apple: The Rematch
• The iTunes DRM Model
• Snitch or Switch
• On a WildTangent: Not all Fun and Games
• Who Profits From Selling Your Behind?
• A Crystal Ball
• The Right Spin on Spyware
• Products Too Smart for Their Own Damn Good
• The Cheap Toothpick Syndrome
• Chapter 10: Badvertising
• Animatics
• The Day Elvis Died
• Mnemonics
• Napster Nips Madison Avenue
• The Silver Lining
• Advertising s Second Heyday
• The Stuart Principle
• The Day of Reckoning
• Testing
• How Advertising Became Badvertising
• Digital Marketing
• The Mousetrap
• Ad Blocking
• The Advertising Police
• Chapter 11: Practical and Tactical Digital Defence (Part 2)
• Epilogue
• Don t Get Mad. Get Even
• Part II: Zone Defense
• Chapter 12: The Computer Zone
• The Administrator Account
• Windows System Restore
• When Was the Last Time You Used Remote Assistance?
• Convenience versus Paranoia
• The Recycle Bin
• Performing Disk Cleanup
• Defragmenting Your Hard Drive
• Windows XP Professional Encryption
• Windows Update
• Scanning for Spyware
• Using a Good Antivirus Software
• Using a Good Firewall
• Software Defaults
• Out-of-the-Box Defaults
• Optimizing Your Startup
• Password-Protecting Your Computer
• Chapter 13: The Internet Zone
• Opt-Out Sites
• The Federal Trade Commission National Do Not Call Registry
• The Cookie Monster
• E-Mail and its Evil Twin
• Instant Messaging
• Downloads and Spyware
• Online Scams
• Chapter 14: The Public Zone
• The Best Way to Avoid Danger
• Don t Fit the Profile
• Develop a Public Persona
• Security Checkpoints
• Identity Theft
• Credit Card Skimming
• Workplace Surveillance
• Index
• Index_A
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G
• Index_H
• Index_I
• Index_J
• Index_K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N
• Index_O
• Index_P
• Index_Q - R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U
• Index_V
• Index_W
• Index_X - Z
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Sidebars