- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (6 April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1566091713
- ISBN-13: 978-1566091718
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.5 x 2.3 cm
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Concerned about your privacy now that computers can track just about every area of your life? This book will make you worry even more as you read the gory details of ways computers have put our privacy in jeopardy. But you'll also learn what you can do to safeguard your electronic security. The book includes an easy-to-read manual for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), an inexpensive e-mail encryption program.More about The Computer Privacy Handbook This is the scariest computer book of the year. It details the many ways our privacy is invaded by computers in this Age of Electronic Surveillance. With millions of e-mail messages exchanged daily, and zillions of bytes of online discussions buzzing across the Internet, privacy is a major concern. In an Equifax poll, 79 percent of respondents said they would like to "add privacy to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'" in the Declaration of Independence. This book tells how individuals can safeguard their electronic privacy using good encryption, proper data protection, and the right software. The Computer Privacy Handbook consists of four major sections.The first gives a vivid description of how computers have created a surveillance age that threatens each citizen's personal security. The second offers a nontechnical introduction to data encryption and the U.S. government's Clipper Chip surveillance proposal for a chip that can keep information secret but that can also allow federal agents to unscramble the code. The third section provides a socio-political overview of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), the de facto world software standard for e-mail privacy. The last section is an easy-to-read PGP user's manual for the PC.
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Concerned about your privacy now that computers can track just about every area of your life? This book will make you worry even more as you read the gory details of ways computers have put our privacy in jeopardy. But you'll also learn what you can do to safeguard your electronic security. The book includes an easy-to-read manual for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), an inexpensive e-mail encryption program.
More about The Computer Privacy Handbook
This is the scariest computer book of the year. It details the many ways our privacy is invaded by computers in this Age of Electronic Surveillance. With millions of e-mail messages exchanged daily, and zillions of bytes of online discussions buzzing across the Internet, privacy is a major concern. In an Equifax poll, 79 percent of respondents said they would like to "add privacy to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'" in the Declaration of Independence. This book tells how individuals can safeguard their electronic privacy using good encryption, proper data protection, and the right software.
The Computer Privacy Handbook consists of four major sections. The first gives a vivid description of how computers have created a surveillance age that threatens each citizen's personal security. The second offers a nontechnical introduction to data encryption and the U.S. government's Clipper Chip surveillance proposal for a chip that can keep information secret but that can also allow federal agents to unscramble the code. The third section provides a socio-political overview of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), the de facto world software standard for e-mail privacy. The last section is an easy-to-read PGP user's manual for the PC.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Computer Privacy Handbook Changed My Life!
13 April 2000
Format:Paperback
After listening to Andre Bacard interviewed on the radio, I bought and read COMPUTER PRIVACY HANDBOOK. This book blew my mind! It taught me how very naive I've been about what Bacard calls our "Surveillance Age" -- in particular the Internet. At first I thought this book was about computers. Actually, it is about human relations and freedom from tyranny. I've told a number of my friends to read this book and, then, to check the privacy links at http://www.andrebacard.com. After reading Computer Privacy Handbook, I've taken several steps. First, I never surf the web without using a service such as www.freedom.net. Second, I use encryped email and/or www.hushmail.com for my email. I have yet to figure out how to protect my financial and medical privacy, but I'm working on that. Thank you, Mr. Bacard, for changing my life!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Once great, now outdated...
4 Nov 2003
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Computer Privacy Handbook was a great book in its time. Unfortunately, that time has long since passed.
The manuscript itself was written in 1994. At the rate things move in the computer industry, it did not take long before the material became dated. I think that we all know how quickly computer books can go from being state-of-the-art to obsolete within a matter of months.
Probably the best part of the book was its tutorial about how to use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) for DOS. Unless you are still using a 386, PGP for DOS is probably not the encryption method of choice for you. A large portion of the book is devoted to this tutorial, which is obsolete by anyone's standards.
The remainder of the book largely discusses electronic privacy issues. The issues raised range from the paranoid to the practical. Eerily, many of the "possabilities" discussed by Bacard have already come to pass, in regards to the public's erosion of personal privacy in America. Parts of the book may have seemed Orwellian at the time, but are accepted norms in today's society. It really makes the case for Bacard not being so paranoid after all.
If you are looking for a historical overview of computer privacy circa 1994, or have a need to run PGP in DOS, this book may very well have some relevance for you. There are still some parts of the book that hold up today, but you will have to skip the majority of the material if you are simply reading for modern day relevance. I'm giving it three stars due to its relevance at the time it was released. Don't take that number literally if you are buying this to use as anything other than as a history book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
privacy paranoid
4 April 2000
Format:Paperback
I bought this book first because I needed to read on PGP however when I started reading i forgot the PGP and found the privacy issues very interesting and made me more aware! I think it is a great book !
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