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1. Protecting Yourself Online: The Definitive Resource on Safety and Privacy in Cyberspace by David B. Gelman, Stanton McCandlish | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(1998-04-01)
list price: US$16.00 -- used & new: US$6.25 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0062515128 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Amazon.com The authors cover a lot of territory in a concise, direct manner. Among the topics are free expression and online censorship, reconciling individual liberties with community standards, secure communications and online commerce, and the protection of intellectual property online. One excellent chapter deals with netiquette, spam, hackers, computer viruses, and flames. A major focus is placed on recognizing online spoofs and scams, whether it be an e-mail advertisement that is too good to be true or people who aren't who they say they are. Additional topics include protecting yourself from spam and mail bombs, issues of government control online, and how can you protect your personal information (including credit-card numbers, medical information, and passwords) by using encryption and authentication. The book also delves into dealing with e-mail flames, children on the Internet, and even how the U.S. Constitution might apply over an international network. Each issue is discussed calmly, rationally, and without sensationalism. The EFF, founded in 1990 as a nonprofit organization to defend civil liberties and rights in cyberspace, has consistently been at the forefront of the debate on freedom and responsibility online. Perhaps its most famous case was the campaign against online censorship that started in reaction to the Communications Decency Act's initial passage. --Elizabeth Lewis Since 1991, the non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has worked to protect freedoms and advocate responsibility in new media and the online world. In Protecting Yourself Online, Robert Gelman has drawn on the collective insight and experience of EFF to present a comprehensive guide to self-protection in the electronic frontier. In accessible, clear-headed language, Protecting Yourself Online addresses such issues as:
Produced by the leading civil libertarians of the digital age, and including a foreword by one of the most respected leaders in global business and the cyberworld, Esther Dyson, Protecting Yourself Online is an essential resource for new media newcomers and old Internet hands alike. Customer Reviews (6)
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2. converge - online video | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2007-10-31)
list price: US$10.00 -- used & new: US$7.29 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1906496056 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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3. Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design by Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Gilmore | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1998-04-30)
list price: US$29.95 -- used & new: US$98.09 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B00005R08F Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description National Security Agency and FBI officials say our civil liberties must be curtailed because the government can't crack the security of DES to wiretap bad guys. But somehow a tiny nonprofit has designed and built a $200,000 machine that cracks DES in a week. Who's lying, and why? For the first time, the book reveals full technical details on how researchers and data-recovery engineers can build a working DES Cracker. It includes design specifications and board schematics, as well as full source code for the custom chip, a chip simulator, and the software that drives the system. The U.S. government makes it illegal to publish these details on the Web, but they're printed here in a form that's easy to read and understand, legal to publish, and convenient for scanning into your computer. The Data Encryption Standard withstood the test of time for twenty years. This book shows exactly how it was brought down. Every cryptographer, security designer, and student of cryptography policy should read this book to understand how the world changed as it fell. Customer Reviews (2)
Useful to both cryppies and hardware geeks This is something that had been suspected for some time. The original Lucifer encrypt that it had been based on had been designed by IBM with a 64-bit keyspace (quite large for the late 70s), but had been reduced to 56 bits, reducing the number of possible keys by two orders of magnitude. It was widely suspected that this was due to the NSA's desire that there not be a standard in the public domain that they couldn't crack; indeed, DES was slowly obsoleted over the years by ciphers like RSA and PGP. In 1997, it was announced that the EFF had created, using an array of custom chips, a relatively inexpensive system that was capable of a brute-force attack on DES, and came to the conclusion that such systems were probably already in the posession of not only the NSA (the largest purchaser of computing power in the world) but also numerous corporate and governmental entities that could afford to pay substantially less than the EFF paid for a technology that was likely not only available on the QT but quite mature. This book comes with everything needed to build a DES cracker -- operational notes, history, and even the VHDL code needed to build the custom chips and C code to control the chip array. This makes it of interest not only to cryptography researchers (who probably consider this book old news after seven years) but to those learning about hardware and embedded systems development; the extensive listings make for good study material. It's a worthwhile book to buy for anyone interested in privacy and cryptography concerns, though for the layperson Simon Singh's Code Book is probably a more general introduction to the issues involved.
Detailed blueprint on how-to-do it. The authors have done a tremendous service to the entire population of the World by exposing the vulnerability of the DES algorithm. The DES algorithm is the formulafor encrypting your bank account and keeping other secrets safe. DES hasbecome unless and the authors have taken more than a little risk to informyou including absolute, undeniable proof in the form of "showing youhow", down to the last detail. The books not only gives detailedplans and references but also the correct current political motivationbehind the desire to retain the DES and how it affects you. Details ofhow government "politicking" of your civil rights and how thoserights are being "watered down"for the benefit of theintelligence community is explained, too. I don't personally plan onspending $200,000 or so to build a "engine for cracking DES", butI do believe that the money spent for this book was one of the betterinvestments I have made. The books contents have been placed into the public domain by the authors. Tell a friend. Bravo, guys! ... Read more |
4. Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation | |
Hardcover: 204
Pages
(2002-02)
list price: US$94.99 -- used & new: US$94.99 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 158827215X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Frontiers the electronic newsletter of the National Science Foundation (SuDoc NS 1.57:) by U.S. National Science Foundation | |
Unknown Binding:
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Asin: B00010UF4K Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. Hot debates on Chilling letters. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article): An article from: Security Management by Peter Piazza | |
Digital: 2
Pages
(2002-07-01)
list price: US$5.95 -- used & new: US$5.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B0009FOHN2 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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7. EFF's (extended) guide to the Internet: A round trip through global networks, life in cyberspace and everything-- by Adam Gaffin | |
Unknown Binding: 304
Pages
(1994)
Asin: B0006QBCI2 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
8. Big dummy's guide to the Internet: A round trip through global networks, life in cyberspace, and everything by Adam Gaffin | |
Unknown Binding: 278
Pages
(1994)
Asin: B0006P7DDG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
9. A technology policy for America: Six broad initiatives (EFFector online) by Bill Clinton | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1992)
Asin: B0006OXB7Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
10. Building the open road: The NREN as a test-bed for the National Public Network by Mitchell Kapor | |
Unknown Binding: 20
Pages
(1992)
Asin: B0006F4EZG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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