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1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Privacy at risk -- The spy on your desk -- Dawn of the undead PC -- Working for the man -- The information explosion -- The data industrial complex -- Location, location, location -- 2. Privacy at home -- My data, myself -- One computer, many eyeballs -- Foil hard disk snoops -- No vault insurance -- Hide in plain sight -- Complete delete -- Watch your backups -- Microsoft confidential -- Cleaning up for charity -- Home sweet networks -- Stop WiFi drive bys -- Share and unshare alike -- Cell phones -- Spam to go -- Cell phone candid camera -- Moblog rules -- Wireless wiretaps? -- Telemarketing, junk mail, and faxes -- Don't ask, don't telemarket -- Do not call does not work -- Block that scam -- Just the fax, ma'am -- Junking junk mail -- Flag mag nags -- Pick your mail -- Identity theft -- Foil mailbox miscreants -- Check your reports -- Stop, ID thief! |
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3. Privacy on the Net -- Browsing around -- Erase your browser's footprints, part 1 -- Erase your browser's footprints, part deux -- Make Web forms shoot blanks -- Rewrite Netscape's history -- Maximum privacy, maximum headaches -- Tell people finders to get lost -- Fend off cyber stalkers -- Make ad weasels go pop -- Spies you should despise -- Die spy die! -- Change browsers and dance -- Shoot the messenger -- Email -- Spam bam, no thank you ma'am -- Whose address is it, anyway? -- Nix those nasty pix -- Declare war on spam, part I -- Declare war on span, part deux -- There oughta be a law. Wait, there is a law! -- Fight fire with water -- Don't bank on it -- Watching the (digital) detectives -- Swat Web bugs -- Esquiring minds don't really want to know -- Free Web mail, free spam -- Hackers, viruses, and worms, oh my! -- Attack on the data-eating zombies -- Don't get too attached -- Friends don't let friends open attachments -- Antivirus software is not enough -- Stop spreading the news -- Make updates automatic -- Online shopping -- Give credit where credit is due ... -- ... But don't take undue credit -- They know when you've been shopping -- You are what you buy -- Would you like spam with that? -- 99.44% hacker safe -- Online file swapping -- I share the songs that make the whole world sing ... -- The sue me, sue you blues -- Avoid P2P vermin -- Kids and the Net -- Let Internet Explorer play Web cop -- Hire a nanny -- Thanks for not sharing -- I H8 IM -- Privacy @ large -- Whose stalking me? -- Antidotes for domain poisoning -- Bloggers are from Mars, lawyers are from Venus -- Usenet or lose it. |
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4. Privacy at work -- The Internet at work -- Surfing on company time -- Visit NasteePix.com, get fired? -- Out of the office, but not out of sight -- Whose email is it, anyway? -- Beware of IT spies -- Chewing the fat on chat -- Do your hunting from home -- Applying for work -- This is your job on drugs -- The background on background checks -- Bury the dirt -- Avoid questionable questions -- HR/personnel records -- When personnel gets personal -- Avoid bad PR from HR -- Beware employee ID theft -- Miscellaneous work issues -- Dish the dirt, lose your job? -- Medical records may be hazardous to your job -- Cameras, cameras, everywhere -- The searchers. |
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5. Privacy in public -- At the store -- Don't get cashiered -- Your loyalty is not rewarded -- My soft drink is spying on me! -- My identity has been swiped! -- Be anti-social -- Improving your rental health -- Libraries and schools -- Beware public Net terminals -- Your reading habits are private ... -- ... Except when the Feds step in -- So what's your major? -- Apply with care -- High school confidential -- On the road -- Grounded by no-fly lists -- My bag has been flagged -- You life is an open bag -- High-risk frisks -- The EZ way to track your movements -- We know where you drove last summer -- At the doctor's office -- Testing can be hazardous to your health insurance -- Keep your hospital stay private -- Medical marketing migraines -- Report privacy gaffes -- Be careful what you tell your doctor -- At the bank -- All offshore that's going offshore? -- Tell insurers to drop your SSN -- Safety in boxes? -- Miscellaneous -- Keep those cards at home -- Get debt collectors off your back -- Hello, my name is Brad, and I'll be your thief this evening -- Get ready for your close-up. |
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6. Privacy and Uncle Sam -- Public agencies and you -- Private lives, public information -- Keep the USPS from selling your address -- Take leave of your census -- Taking license with your license -- The taxman cometh -- Political privacy -- Vote yes on privacy -- Voters for sale -- Retail politics -- Local law enforcement -- Your papers, please -- You're under arrest, forever -- Escaping the long arm of the law -- Pull over and show me your DNA -- Spooks and snoops -- G-man spam -- Are the Feds tapping your phone? -- What's in your files? -- 7. Privacy in the future -- Slamming spam -- Assuring authentication -- Regarding reputation -- Foiling phishers -- Rating risks -- Insulating identity -- Whither Washington? -- Privacy power. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Language |
English. |
| Summary |
"Computer privacy annoyances shows you how to keep your private information private. You'll learn how to thwart identity thieves, surf safely, secure your PC from hackers, keep your cell phone conversations private, stop spam, battle bureaucrats, and more. Unless you know what data is available about you and how to protect it, you're a sitting duck. Computer privacy annoyances is your guide to a safer, saner, and more private life."--Jacket. |
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Data protection.
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Identity theft.
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Computers -- Access control.
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Ordinateurs -- Accès -- Contrôle. |
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Protection de l'information (Informatique) |
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Vol d'identité. |
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Computers -- Access control |
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Data protection |
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Identity theft |
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Engineering & Applied Sciences. |
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Computer Science. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Tynan, Dan. Computer privacy annoyances. Sebastopol, Calif. ; Farnham : O'Reilly, ©2005 (DLC) 2006273803 (OCoLC)58828429 |
| ISBN |
(pbk.) |
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(pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
0596007752 |
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0596007752 (pbk.) |
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