We are entering a new state of global hypersurveillance. As we increasingly resort to technology for our work and play, our electronic activity leaves behind digital footprints that can be used to track our movements. In our cars, telephones, even our coffee machines, tiny computers communicating wirelessly via the Internet can serve as miniature witnesses, forming powerful networks whose emergent behaviour can be very complex, intelligent, and invasive. The question is: how much of an infringement on privacy are they? Exposing the invasion of our privacy from CCTVs to blogs, "The Spy in the Coffee Machine" explores what - if anything - we can do to prevent it from disappearing forever in the digital age, and provides readers with a much needed wake-up call to the benefits and dangers of this new technology.
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Timely and balanced, their book The Spy in the Coffee Machine is a scary treatise about the way technology has eroded privacy and continues to do so … The chief lesson of this excellent and potent short book is that we have to learn how to live with these actualities. --A. C. Grayling, The New Scientist
Fred Piper, Director of the Royal Holloway Information Security Group, University of London.
"Worried about the potential effect of new digital technologies on your personal privacy? Providing the most up-to-date information on this fascinating debate, the authors explore how technology has been infiltrating and changing our society."
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By Mr
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I would tell you just how great this book is, how timely a warning it is about the continued erosion of our freedom of expression and how it's far too late to do anything about it. But they're watching me...
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This writing is thankfully up-to-date and does a good job of demystifying some of the jargon bandied about in our increasingly connected world. All in all it's a very readable, engaging attempt to make sense of the steady erosion of privacy in an increasingly technological world, and the steps we might take to prevent that erosion.
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Absolutely stunning book discussing privacy, and after purchasing about 10 different books, this is easily the best, and the cheapest.
It reads easily, at a swift pace, throwing idea after idea at the innocent reader.
Another chapter reads "Computer security meets human idiocy".
From Moore's law to Brute Force.
Data mining and grids.
All definitions of privacy are avoided; this is deemed a slippery concept, so five guiding presumptions are given instead.
An exhilarating read, and one that I can't recommended highly enough, especially considering it's low cost.
It reads easily, at a swift pace, throwing idea after idea at the innocent reader.
Another chapter reads "Computer security meets human idiocy".
From Moore's law to Brute Force.
Data mining and grids.
All definitions of privacy are avoided; this is deemed a slippery concept, so five guiding presumptions are given instead.
An exhilarating read, and one that I can't recommended highly enough, especially considering it's low cost.
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