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  • The Art of Invisibility

  • The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
  • By: Kevin Mitnick
  • Narrated by: Ray Porter
  • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (386 ratings)
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The Art of Invisibility

By: Kevin Mitnick
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Summary

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and countermeasures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.

Like it or not, your every move is being watched and analyzed. Consumers' identities are being stolen, and a person's every step is being tracked and stored. What once might have been dismissed as paranoia is now a hard truth, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.

In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility". Mitnick is the world's most famous - and formerly the most wanted - computer hacker. He has hacked in to some of the country's most powerful and seemingly impenetrable agencies and companies, and at one point he was on a three-year run from the FBI. Now, though, Mitnick is reformed and is widely regarded as the expert on the subject of computer security. He knows exactly how vulnerabilities can be exploited and just what to do to prevent that from happening.

In The Art of Invisibility Mitnick provides both online and real-life tactics and inexpensive methods to protect you and your family, in easy step-by-step instructions. He even talks about more advanced "elite" techniques, which, if used properly, can maximize your privacy. Invisibility isn't just for superheroes - privacy is a power you deserve and need in this modern age.

©2017 Kevin Mitnick (P)2017 Hachette Audio

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Bad book

This book is bad. I've read Mitnick's two previous books and they were interesting, exciting, and enjoyable. This book is not.

It provides a series of obvious tips such as the recommendation of using a password manager. Furthermore, it rambles endlessly in fearmongering in a manner that aims to scare without informing. One example is that the book implies that nation-states have the power to brute-force 25-character passwords consisting of lower case, upper case letters and numbers. To our current knowledge, this process would take more than the age of the universe to complete, even if all nation states combined their efforts and their best computers to break your own personal password.

As such, I found the book an attempt to spread fear, misinformation, and doubt. Lastly, Kevin comes off as completely full of himself, preaching unscientifically and often without explanation. The book goes on and on with boring clichés and pretentious emphases by the narrator which are quickly tiresome.

While some of the tools recommended are good (keepass and the IP masking techniques), overall you are better off searching for this information online in less sensational publications.

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Interesting read

A must read for anyone who uses the internet old or young. A good insight into the negatives aspects of internet security or lack of. 10 out of 10

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Eye opening !!!

Not even half way through this book yet, but I love it and highly recommend to everybody. Shows just how little the average person is informed on their own personal security. We become so complacent that we just trust everything and we are being exploited on every level! You will not regret purchasing this book.

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absolutely brilliant

fantastic read that has some valuable points and I learned so much to do with security thanks to this and soon I might just give it all ago. 10/10 would recommend to a computer nerd like myself.

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Practically perfect in every way.

If you have an interest in Annonimity or online and general security, You need this book.
The world is elvolving in potentially dangerous and sinister ways. The book delves into the insidious methods that are turning people and their data into global commodities among other serious issues.

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If you were not paranoid: now you are

The author depict a very gloomy reality of internet and make you realise how you are being tracked all the time. Without having to go all the way to become invisible, this book will give you valuable techniques to keep relatively private and secure online.

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interesting & informing book

loved this, leant a lot, some very enlightening tips and tricks and eye opening at times

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Scary prospects but also incredibly informative

Whatever you think you know about privacy, listen to this first then re-evaluate your perceptions.
Definitely one of the most informative books in my collection.

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Interesting

People don't realise how much they give away when on social media and not just.

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What a fantastic book

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It's almost like the Swiss army knife of how to stay under the radar in the modern world - if you ever needed to.

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