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Internet & World Wide Web - General & Miscellaneous, Security - Computer Networks, Computer Security, Databases Security, Home Safety & Security, Cryptography

The Computer Privacy Handbook

by Andre Bacard
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Overview

The Computer Privacy Handbook gives you the practical tools to reassert your privacy. You'll find out who is selling your secrets, how computers help snoops, the dangers of a cash-free society, how the U.S. government wants to monitor all telecommunications, why e-mail can be terribly unsafe, the advantages of anonymous remailers, how to protect yourself with encryption and digital signatures, and how to safeguard your Social Security number. Also included is a complete, user-friendly manual for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a top-rate software program that protects your personal and business data files and e-mail from snoops! PGP is the de facto world standard for e-mail privacy.

With millions of e-mail messages and online discussions exchanged daily on the Internet, electronic security has become a key concern. The Computer Privacy Handbook explains how computers have put our privacy in jeopardy and what practical steps individuals can take to safeguard their electronic security.

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Bacard provides an overview of surveillance, discusses cryptology, introduces Pretty Good Privacy (or PGP, a software program that protects personal and business data files and e- mail from snoops and other ill-willed sorts), and includes a user- friendly manual for using PGP on the PC. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
April 6, 1995
Publisher
Peachpit Press
Pages
274
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781566091718

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