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Author: Peter Loshin
ISBN : 0124104045
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For those with legitimate reason to use the Internet anonymously--diplomats, military and other government agencies, journalists, political activists, IT professionals, law enforcement personnel, political refugees and others--anonymous networking provides an invaluable tool, and many good reasons that anonymity can serve a very important purpose. Anonymous use of the Internet is made difficult by the many websites that know everything about us, by the cookies and ad networks, IP-logging ISPs, even nosy officials may get involved. It is no longer possible to turn off browser cookies to be left alone in your online life. Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online shows you how to use the most effective and widely-used anonymity tools--the ones that protect diplomats, military and other government agencies to become invisible online. This practical guide skips the theoretical and technical details and focuses on getting from zero to anonymous as fast as possible.
For many, using any of the open-source, peer-reviewed tools for connecting to the Internet via an anonymous network may be (or seem to be) too difficult because most of the information about these tools is burdened with discussions of how they work and how to maximize security. Even tech-savvy users may find the burden too great--but actually using the tools can be pretty simple.
The primary market for this book consists of IT professionals who need/want tools for anonymity to test/work around corporate firewalls and router filtering as well as provide anonymity tools to their customers.
Simple, step-by-step instructions for configuring and using anonymous networking software
- Simple, step-by-step instructions for configuring and using anonymous networking software
- Use of open source, time-proven and peer-reviewed tools for anonymity
- Plain-language discussion of actual threats and concrete suggestions for appropriate responses
- Easy-to-follow tips for safer computing
- Simple, step-by-step instructions for configuring and using anonymous networking software
- Use of open source, time-proven and peer-reviewed tools for anonymity
- Plain-language discussion of actual threats, and concrete suggestions for appropriate responses
- Easy to follow tips for safer computing.
Direct download links available for Free Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online [Paperback]
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (August 9, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0124104045
- ISBN-13: 978-0124104044
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online
Unfortunately, this review will be very short. This is because I have nothing good to say about Peter Loshin's book, Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online, and the only bad thing I have to say about it is that all of the information can easily be found for free with a few simple Google searches.
When I was given the opportunity to review Practical Anonymity, I was very excited. I'm a big proponent of digital privacy and security, and I was looking forward to learning something new to help me keep sensitive information away from the prying eyes of hackers and the NSA. What I got, instead, was a massive waste of time that taught me absolutely nothing new about staying anonymous online.
Practical Anonymity covers how to use Tor and TAILS. To be fair, it covered more than just the basics, such as how to set up a Tor bridge relay and how to send and receive email through Tor. Still, all of the information in this book was already at my disposal. Open-source projects like Tor and TAILS tend to have very extensive documentation readily available on the Internet. Don't know what Tor is or how it works? No problem. They explain it on their website. Need to know what a bridge relay is and how to set one up? They explain that too. What is TAILS and how do you use it? That's right there on the TAILS website.
And if that isn't enough, the EFF has an excellent series of (also free) articles called The Surveillance Self-Defense Project which teaches people how to remain anonymous on the Internet and in the physical world, and covers far more material than Practical Anonymity, such as secure file deletion and encryption. The EFF also stays up-to-date with all the relevant legal developments.
Wow, Batman! That's a lot of really good (free) info!
Of the many books that author Pete Loshin has written in the past decades, a number of them are completely comprised of public domain information that he gathered. Titles such as Big book of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) RFCs, Big Book of IPsec RFCs, Big Book of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) RFCs, and others, are simply bound copies of publicly and freely available information.
In two of his latest books Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online and Simple Steps to Data Encryption: A Practical Guide to Secure Computing, Loshin doesn't do the wholesale cut and paste like he did from the RFC books, but on the other side, these titles do not offer much added information than the reader can otherwise get online.
The software tools detailed in the books are open source tools; and the open source community has done a fantastic job of not only making the software free, but creating documentation that is also free and rivals commercial technical guides.
Practical Anonymity is basically an overview of the basics of Tor. The truth is that all it takes to use Tor is to download it and then click on Start Tor Browser. For those that want to read the manuals, the Tor documentation repository has detailed information that includes everything a user needs to know about using the product. The Tor site has numerous manuals, FAQ's and more. There is likely enough information there for the vast majority of Tor and potential Tor users.
At 130 pages, the book is useful for those that want a hard copy to read on a bus or plane and for whatever reason, don't want to print out the references from the Tor site. Loshin does a decent job of presenting the topic, including why Tor is important, and who it could most benefit.
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