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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proud to have sponsored the production of the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet. EFF is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to ensuring that everyone has access to the newly emerging communications technologies vital to active participation in the events of our world. As more and more information is available online, new doors open up for those who have access to that information. Unfortunately, unless access is broadly encouraged, individuals can be disenfranchised and doors can close, as well. The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet was written to help open some doors to the vast amounts of information available on the world's largest network, the Internet...

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Like any new frontier, cyberspace offers both exhilarating possibilities and unforeseen hazards.As personal information about us travels the globe on high-speed networks, often with neither our knowledge nor our consent, a solid understanding of privacy and security issues is vital to the preservation of our rights and civil liberties. In reaping the benefits of the information age while safeguarding ourselves from its perils, the choices we make and the precedents we establish today will be central in defining the future of the electronic frontier.

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:

avoiding spam [junk mail]spotting online scams and hoaxesprotecting yourself from identity theft and fraudguarding your email privacy [and knowing when you can't]assessing the danger of viruseskeeping the net free of censorship and safe for your childrenprotecting your intellectual property

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. Amazon.com Review
Too many cyberspace pundits fail to deliver constructive ideason how to deal with issues of safety, privacy, and censorship online.Protecting Yourself Online, penned by members of the ElectronicFrontier Foundation (EFF), is a splendid exception that makes good onits claim to be the definitive resource for practical solutions tothese problems.

The authors cover a lot of territory in a concise,direct manner. Among the topics are free expression and onlinecensorship, reconciling individual liberties with community standards,secure communications and online commerce, and the protection ofintellectual property online. One excellent chapter deals withnetiquette, spam, hackers, computer viruses, and flames. A major focusis placed on recognizing online spoofs and scams, whether it be ane-mail advertisement that is too good to be true or people who aren'twho they say they are.

Additional topics include protecting yourselffrom spam and mail bombs, issues of government control online, and howcan you protect your personal information (including credit-cardnumbers, medical information, and passwords) by using encryption andauthentication. The book also delves into dealing with e-mail flames,children on the Internet, and even how the U.S. Constitution mightapply over an international network. Each issue is discussed calmly,rationally, and without sensationalism.

The EFF, founded in 1990 asa nonprofit organization to defend civil liberties and rights incyberspace, has consistently been at the forefront of the debate onfreedom and responsibility online. Perhaps its most famous case wasthe campaign against online censorship that started in reaction to theCommunications Decency Act's initial passage. --Elizabeth Lewis ... Read more

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Disappointed...
I read this book and was very disappointed.The title is mis-leading, as there is really very little information about protecting yourself on-line.What little information could be found was introductory to say the least. I also felt that the book wasa lobbying tool, trying to bring me over tothe civil liberties world.A thumbs down...

Had to counter that one-star review
Sure, it's not too detailed, and sure, a lot of tech people are already going to be familiar with a lot of the information in it, but for novices, it's great. It's a great book to give the uncle who keeps sending you falsevirus alarms, or the grandmother that doesn't understand the civilliberties implications of the Communications Decency Act -- or the cousinthat thinks hackers are going to break into her bank account if she buys amodem.

Not worth the money.
If you need a book about how to protect yourself online don't buy thisone, it won't help you. The authors are just taking stock of the well-knownproblems in the Internet and offer some links to other sides.

I've read this one too
The author of this book spends all his time detailing the problem withouta single keystroke of solution.Is there a book out there that realy turnsthe advantage back to parents and Internet users?The only book I like is"Life and Death on the Internet" by Keith A. Schroeder.At leasttwo-thirds of Life and Death is solutions.Who cares about the problem. We all know it exists, just open a newspaper.I would pass on this book. Life and Death on the Internet is better.

I've read this one too
The author of this book spends all his time detailing the problem withouta single keystroke of solution.Is there a book out there that realy turnsthe advantage back to parents and Internet users?The only book I like is"Life and Death on the Internet" by Keith A. Schroeder.At leasttwo-thirds of Life and Death is solutions.Who cares about the problem. We all know it exists, just open a newspaper.I would pass on this book. Life and Death on the Internet is better. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wings of Hope, Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute, Environmental Defense Fund, Bikes Not Bombs, Federation of American Scientists, Rainforest Alliance, Knowledge Ecology International. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : L'Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale à but non lucratif, fondée en 1990 aux États-Unis par Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, et John Perry Barlow, connu pour être l'auteur de la Déclaration d'indépendance du cyberespace. L'objectif essentiel de l'EFF est de défendre la liberté d'expression sur Internet. En effet, le développement de celui-ci ne peut se faire sans la prise en compte des sujets politiques, économiques et légaux. L'Electronic Frontier Foundation offre des prix de calcul coopératif afin d'encourager les internautes à contribuer à la résolution de problèmes scientifiques par le calcul distribué: Pour l'EFF, certains brevets technologiques déposés dans le monde sont illégitimes : l'usage de la technologie brevetée est très courant et son apparition est peu documentée, mais des sociétés en revendiquent la propriété une fois celle-ci installée dans le quotidien de tous. Voici une liste de brevets que l'EFF estime nuisible au développement et à l'usage public. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Electronic Frontier Foundation, La Quadrature Du Net, Knowledge Ecology International. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : L'Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale à but non lucratif, fondée en 1990 aux États-Unis par Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, et John Perry Barlow, connu pour être l'auteur de la Déclaration d'indépendance du cyberespace. L'objectif essentiel de l'EFF est de défendre la liberté d'expression sur Internet. En effet, le développement de celui-ci ne peut se faire sans la prise en compte des sujets politiques, économiques et légaux. L'Electronic Frontier Foundation offre des prix de calcul coopératif afin d'encourager les internautes à contribuer à la résolution de problèmes scientifiques par le calcul distribué: Pour l'EFF, certains brevets technologiques déposés dans le monde sont illégitimes : l'usage de la technologie brevetée est très courant et son apparition est peu documentée, mais des sociétés en revendiquent la propriété une fois celle-ci installée dans le quotidien de tous. Voici une liste de brevets que l'EFF estime nuisible au développement et à l'usage public. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority V. Anderson, National Portrait Gallery Copyright Conflicts, Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation Actions, the Chamberlain Group, Inc. V. Skylink Technologies, Inc., Dvd Copy Control Association, Inc. V. Kaleidescape, Inc., Hepting V. At ... Read more

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Chapters: Wikimedia Foundation, Sierra Club, Kiva, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, American Asthma Foundation, New Langton Arts, Linux Foundation, Ragazzi Boys Chorus, 826 National, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Cardboard Tube Fighting League, International Orange Chorale, Intersection for the Arts, Rainforest Action Network, San Francisco Nature Education, Olympic Club Foundation, Compass Community Services, the Lab, Spinsters of San Francisco, Save-The-Redwoods League, Neighborhood Parks Council, Naturebridge, Southern Exposure, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Arc of San Francisco, Raphael House, San Francisco Boys Chorus, Amazon Watch, Out ... Read more

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Chapters: Electronic Frontier Foundation. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States. Its stated mission is to: The EFF is supported by donations and is based in San Francisco, California, with staff members in Washington, D.C. They are accredited observers at the World Intellectual Property Organization and one of the participants of the Global Network Initiative. EFF has taken action in several ways. It provides funds for legal defense in court, defends individuals and new technologies from the chilling effects of what it considers baseless or misdirected legal threats, works to expose government malfeasance, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings, supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal freedoms, maintains a database and web sites of related news and information, monitors and challenges potential legislation that it believes would infringe on personal liberties and fair use, and solicits a list of what it considers patent abuses with intentions to defeat those that it considers without merit. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties. In April 1990, Barlow had been visited by a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in relation to the theft and distribution of the source code for a series of Macintosh ROMs. Barlow ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18949836 ... Read more

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“West's Encyclopedia of American Law” is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind.Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.

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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 369 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides access to the world of Internet commerce and addresses the concerns of those who want to join the ranks of the Internet business community. Presents answers to common questions about website development, financing, advertising, and more. Features essays covering topics and terms, profiles of the top e-commerce companies, biographies of e-commerce innovators, and coverage of events and legislation related to e-commerce. ... Read more

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Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & ChipDesign is a book that, for the first time, reveals fulltechnical details on how researchers and data-recoveryengineers can build a working DES Cracker. It includes designspecifications and board schematics, as well as full sourcecode for the custom chip, a chip simulator, and the softwarethat drives the system. The U.S. government makes it illegal topublish 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. Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, WiretapPolitics & Chip Design shows exactly how it was broughtdown. Every cryptographer, security designer, and student ofcryptography policy should read this book to understand how theworld changed as it fell. ... Read more

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Useful to both cryppies and hardware geeks
In 1997, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced an experiment. On a budget of $200,000, they blew the roof off of something that had long been suspected: the long-time United States Data Encryption Standard was not secure.

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.
This is a "killer book" in every respect.

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.

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Inclusion Through Media (ITM) is a programme of projects across the UK which use audio-visual media to engage young people and excluded individuals and communities. It focuses on projects that bring the target groups together with media professionals to produce high-quality products for maximum impact. ITM projects stress innovative methods and participatory approaches. One of ITM's objectives is using ICT for the production and distribution of learning materials and products developed by partners and target groups. Converge is a programme to enable young people to showcase their audio/visual works on the web. Goldsmiths produced in collaboration with Hi8Us this handbook and workshop programme to enable young people to make use of existing sites like the Internet Archive, Participatory Culture, YouTube and Video Syndication Network and to publish videos on own sites using Free an Open source software. ... Read more

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non- profit advocacy and legal organization based in the UnitedStates with the stated purpose of being dedicated topreserving the right to freedom of speech, such as protectedby the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, inthe context of the digital technology age . Its stated maingoal is to educate the press, policymakers and the generalpublic about civil liberties issues related to technology,and to act as a defender of those liberties. The EFF issupported by donations and is based in San Francisco,California, with staff members in Washington, D.C. They arealso accredited observers at the World Intellectual PropertyOrganization.EFF has taken action in several ways. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Onion Router (Tor) is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing enabling Internet anonymity by thwarting network traffic analysis. Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul Syverson presented "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router" at the 13th USENIX Security Symposium on Friday, August 13, 2004.Tor employs cryptography in a multi-layered manner (hence the Onion routing analogy), ensuring perfect forward secrecy between routers. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Open Rights Group is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues, acting as a media clearinghouse service putting journalists in touch with experts, and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns against digital rights management, the extension of the term of copyright protection afforded to sound recordings, e-voting, as well as numerous other issues. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! United States v. Arnold, 523 F.3d 941 (9th Cir. 2008), is a United States court case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not require government agents to have reasonable suspicion before searching laptops or other digital devices at the border, including international airports. This decision has caused worry and some controversy among Fourth Amendment advocates, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ... Read more

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Traffic grooming is the name given to a family of optical network design problems that has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry in the last decade or so. The huge bandwidth of fiber optical networking is much larger than the typical bandwidth demands experienced by network service providers. This mismatch creates a need for multiplexing the low rate traffic demands into optical wavelength channels, but this requires costly electronic switching equipment, potentially offsetting the benefit of cheap optical transport. Traffic grooming refers to network design and resource allocation algorithms that can enable cost-efficient use of both network bandwidth and electronic switching. Due to the increasing bandwidth of optical communication on the one hand, and the growing variety of traffic demand magnitudes on the other, traffic grooming has grown from a narrow research area to a mainstream requirement for real world practitioners.

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This digital document is an article from Reason, published by Reason Foundation on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 340 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This digital document is an article from Security Management, published by American Society for Industrial Security on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 447 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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BradyGames-SaGa Frontier 2 Official Strategy Guide features a detailed listing of all Weapon and Spell Arts.Complete coverage of Gustave and Wil's Walkthroughs.Full Color Area Maps, Coverage of all Side Quests, and an extensive bestiary is included. ... Read more

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Worst Strategy Guide ever
I am in agreement with the first reviewer -- I was extremely disappointed in the quality of this guide, it is very poorly written and ridiculously clumsy.I have purchased other Brady games guides and they were excellent,so I was very surprised they would publish such a lousy guide.I will bemuch more careful next time, and remember the name of Dan Birlew -- to makesure I don't make the mistake of purchasing anything he has"written."This guide turned me off so much I am hesitant topurchase any guides again.The low quality of this guide resulted in myeventually hating the game.

Worst Strategy Guide ever
I am in agreement with the first reviewer -- I was extremely disappointed in the quality of this guide, it is very poorly written and ridiculously clumsy.I have purchased other Brady games guides and they were excellent,so I was very surprised they would publish such a lousy guide.I will bemuch more careful next time, and remember the name of Dan Birlew -- to makesure I don't make the mistake of purchasing anything he has"written."This guide turned me off so much I am hesitant topurchase any guides again.The low quality of this guide resulted in myeventually hating the game.

A mediocre strategy guide at best
This strategy guide has pretty decent walkthroughs, as well as helpful arts lists.In particular, the sections on "sparking" are quite helpful. Unfortunately, there are several errata -- some of the commandcombinations for the arts are incorrect (3 of them, to be precise) -- justthis little error caused me a good deal of frustration.Furthermore, thereare an excesive number of errors elsewhere -- spelling errors, some of the"spark" charts are completely non-sensical, errors in the itemlistings on the area maps, incorrect attack powers for several of the arts,etc.I've purchased several other Brady Games strategy guides (FinalFantasy VII, VIII, and Tactics in particular), and I was very impressedwith their thoroughness, appearance, and correctness.This strategy guidefalls far short of that standard.Not only are there silly errors asstated above, the depth of information is disappointing.There are severalaspects of the game only briefly mentioned that I think deserved moreattention; in particular, the "roles" and their effects onlearning arts, more information on combos (there is virtually no mention ofthis), and more details on the many factors that go into learning arts. Inshort, unlike other Brady Games strategy guides, this guide has little tooffer above a simple FAQ that could be easily found on the web. ... Read more