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Computer privacy annoyances : how to avoid the most ANNOYING invasions of your personal and online privacy
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Title
Computer privacy annoyances : how to avoid the most ANNOYING invasions of your personal and online privacy / Dan Tyan.
ISBN
9780596007751
0596007752
Published
Sebastopol, Calif. ; Farnham : O'Reilly, ©2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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.
Variant and related titles
O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
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Print version: Tynan, Dan. Computer privacy annoyances. Sebastopol, Calif. ; Farnham : O'Reilly, ©2005
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 08, 2024
Bibliography
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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