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Author: Robert Vamosi
ISBN : B004JN0UFE
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Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us.
Robert Vamosi, an award-winning journalist and analyst who has been covering digital security issues for more than a decade, shows us the dark side of all that digital capability and convenience. Hotel-room TV remotes can be used to steal our account information and spy on what we've been watching, toll-booth transponders receive unencrypted EZ Pass or FasTrak info that can be stolen and cloned, and our cars monitor and store data about our driving habits that can be used in court against us.
When Gadgets Betray Us gives us a glimpse into the secret lives of our gadgets and helps us to better understand--and manage--these very real risks.
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- File Size: 481 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (March 29, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004JN0UFE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Right from the start, we get a no-holds-barred, close-up view of the current state of hacking, snooping, probing, prying...as they apply to common electronic gadgets we all know and love. Vamosi elaborates on the ease with which hackers and other cyber-miscreants pilfer and examine our most personal information, whether using a laptop, cell-phone, even a TV-remote.
We think, he says, our car is safe and will be there when we come back...because it's armed with a powerful "beep-beep" alarm system or because we're using our "smart keys." Not necessarily so says our author. He points to a car-thief that he knows who boasts the ability to "steal a vehicle within 30 seconds," no matter what the car-security we're comforted in using. ~And then Vamosi outlines how it can be done.
Among dozens of electronic gizmos we're familiar with, he knowledgably talks about fingerprint scanners, ordinary locks and digital locks, wireless home security systems, and computer mice and keyboards. Even a wireless PowerPoint presentation, we learn, gives the advanced hacker an opportunity for computer mischief. Don't forget WiFi. Our personal information is, apparently, vulnerable there, too. There's nothing more than mentions about viruses, Trojan horses or other computer malware we put up with. It's all about the hard, cold facts of hi-tech security with technology...and/or the lack thereof.
This is no "how-to-hack" book that's got charts, graphs and step-by-step directions on breaking the codes of our everyday electronic products and office equipment. The author specifically notes that whatever (sketchy) information he does provide on electronic break-ins, it's easily already part of an informed hacker's tool kit.
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