Автор: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi
Название: 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
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Год: 2017
ISBN: 9780316380508; 9780316380492
Язык: English
Формат: pdf, azw3
Размер: 11,3 mb
Страниц: 370

In fact, privacy is recognized as a fundamental human right in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

If our privacy needed protection in 1948, it surely needs it much more today. After all, we are the first generation in human history that can be monitored at such a precise level. We can be monitored digitally throughout our lives. Almost all of our communications can be seen one way or another. We even carry small tracking devices on us all the time—we just don’t call them tracking devices, we call them smartphones.

Online monitoring can see what books we buy and what news articles we read—even which parts of the articles are most interesting to us. It can see where we travel and who we travel with. And online monitoring knows if you are sick, or sad, or homy. Much of the monitoring that is done today compiles this data to make money. Companies that offer free services somehow convert those free services into billions of dollars of revenue—nicely illustrating just how valuable it is to profile Internet users in mass scale. However, there’s also more targeted monitoring: the kind of monitoring done by government agencies, domestic or foreign.

Digital communication has made it possible for governments to do bulk surveillance. But it has also enabled us to protect ourselves better. We can protect ourselves with tools like encryption, by storing our data in safe ways, and by following basic principles of operations security (OPSEC). We just need a guide on how to do it right.

Well, the guide you need is right here in your hands. This is a great resource. Read it and use the knowledge to your advantage. Protect yourself and protect your rights.