Computer Privacy Handbook: A Practical Guide to E-Mail Encryption, Data Protection, and PGP Privacy Software

Computer Privacy Handbook: A Practical Guide to E-Mail Encryption, Data Protection, and PGP Privacy Software

by AndrGe Bacard
     
 

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The Computer Privacy Handbook gives you the practical tools to reassert your privacy. You'll find out who is selling your secrets, how computers help snoops, the dangers of a cash-free society, how the U.S. government wants to monitor all telecommunications, why e-mail can be terribly unsafe, the advantages of anonymous remailers, how to protect yourself with… See more details below

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The Computer Privacy Handbook gives you the practical tools to reassert your privacy. You'll find out who is selling your secrets, how computers help snoops, the dangers of a cash-free society, how the U.S. government wants to monitor all telecommunications, why e-mail can be terribly unsafe, the advantages of anonymous remailers, how to protect yourself with encryption and digital signatures, and how to safeguard your Social Security number. Also included is a complete, user-friendly manual for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a top-rate software program that protects your personal and business data files and e-mail from snoops! PGP is the de facto world standard for e-mail privacy.

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Bacard provides an overview of surveillance, discusses cryptology, introduces Pretty Good Privacy (or PGP, a software program that protects personal and business data files and e- mail from snoops and other ill-willed sorts), and includes a user- friendly manual for using PGP on the PC. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9781566091718
Publisher:
Peachpit Press
Publication date:
03/01/1995
Pages:
274
Product dimensions:
7.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

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