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Summary: fantastic!
Review: Fantastic book chock full of useful information for those concerned with privacy.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Get this book to learn how little privacy we have and how to regain some of it. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is that after 7 years, some of the information is becoming dated.
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Summary: Read this book to confirm that you have no privacy!
Review: Great primer about all the little droppings one leaves around going about one's daily business. Pagers, computer, internet, your home, your groceries, your automobile, etc., all the aspects are covered, albeit some more in depth than others. You also get some real life stories about how some notorious fugitives got caught when they screwed up. If you were ever thinking of disappearing, get this book and go from there. If I was to say that the book had one over riding precept, it would be "That leaving a light trail is leaving the same thing as an obvious trail. Any trail at all will get you caught. Its an all or nothing game". Let the fugitive beware!
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Summary: Read this book to confirm that you have no privacy!
Review: Great primer about all the little droppings one leaves around going about one's daily business. Pagers, computer, internet, your home, your groceries, your automobile, etc., all the aspects are covered, albeit some more in depth than others. You also get some real life stories about how some notorious fugitives got caught when they screwed up. If you were ever thinking of disappearing, get this book and go from there. If I was to say that the book had one over riding precept, it would be "That leaving a light trail is leaving the same thing as an obvious trail. Any trail at all will get you caught. Its an all or nothing game". Let the fugitive beware!
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Summary: If privacy is important to you, You need this book!
Review: I have read many books on the subject of privacy and find this book one of the most informative and realistic. It covers many aspects of privacy and explains ways to enhance your personal privacy in a manner that is practical and legal. Remember, never recieve anything at your place of residence in your name.....ever. Also look at "How to be Invisible" by J.J. Luna, the two books together make an awesome combo
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Summary: Privacy 101
Review: Mr. "Party" has compiled a very good starter book for ensuring one's privacy but this is not a treatise that will provide everything you need to know.Still, you probably won't need another book because you probably won't feel it necessary even to follow all the suggestions in this volume. And there are plenty here - more than enough for most purposes. In short, this is a great place to start if you feel the need to take back some privacy, but it won't teach you how to disappear.
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Summary: Entertaining but difficult to accomplish
Review: The book was a fun read. I really enjoy the author's humor...most of the time. The methods he describes are interesting and really a good way to introduce the public to the realities of our lack of privacy. However, he also writes in a way that makes one think that total privacy is doable and easy...which it is not. Most people do not have the bankroll nor means of attaining the "essentials" to privacy described in the book. However, it's the little things he mentions we do on a daily basis to ensure more privacy that seemed much more doable.
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Summary: Entertaining but difficult to accomplish
Review: The fact that a book like this needs to be published is proof that there is something wrong with our republic. Our privacy guaranteed by among other things, the fourth and fifth amendments, is in tatters and government can do things "legally" now that they could not do as little as 10 to 15 years ago. An example of this is search your house or computer, take or copy things, and not let you know about it. This is now legal. Get Boston's book to counter this insidious problem. Fight back against apathy and those who would take advantage of your ignorance.
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Summary: It's the lifestyle and the attitude. Privacy is difficult.
Review: This is a great book. While it's in need of an update (1996) the ideas and attitudes are very much on target. Privacy is very much attitude and habit, not so much technique and "tricks" that will keep you private. I appreciate the fact that time after time, the point is made that privacy is difficult and expensive. Sure, it's easy to live in a fishbowl, but if you want privacy you have to be ready to work for it.
I especially enjoyed the historical examples and discussion, explaining how others had messed up and what that mistake did to them. It only takes one mistake to wreck your plans, and a VERY determined tracker will have years to look at the leads and wait for mistakes. The book is a great primer for anyone wanting a more private life, but we live in the age of dataveillance and it's almost an all or nothing game anymore.
The book is also applicable to folks who want to cut loose and start over somewhere else. Think about it... if your child was looking at a long stay in prison for growing a few pot plants in his apartment, and had the chance to jump bail, what would this book be worth? A lot. The problem is that most people never realize the need for this type of information until something really bad happens to them, and at that point they have very few options.
There are options, and they get discussed.
If I were in charge of updating the book, one of the longest of the "new" chapters would discuss how to secure a computer... I'd also include a chapter on secure communication over the internet, because it's obvious that communications with family and friends is the single biggest mistake that most people on the run will make. I'd also include a chapter on anonymous digital money such as the Digital Gold Currencies like E-Gold and Pecunix.
All in all, though, BulletProof Privacy is still one of the best books on privacy out there.
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