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This new book explores the hidden niches of American history to discover the tug between Americans' yearning for privacy and their insatiable curiosity. The book describes Puritan monitoring in Colonial New England, then shows how the attitudes of the founders placed the concept of privacy in the Constitution. This panoramic view continues with the coming of tabloid journalism in the Nineteenth Century, and the reaction to it in the form of a new right - the right to privacy. The book includes histories of wiretapping, of credit reporting, of sexual practices, of Social Security numbers and ID cards, of modern principles of privacy protection, and of the coming of the Internet and the new challenges to personal privacy it brings. "Robert El... Rest of this review on the detail page
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* Explains exactly what steganography is-hiding a message inside an innocuous picture or music file-and how it has become a popular tool for secretly sending and receiving messages for both the good guys and the bad guys * First book to describe international terrorists' cybersecurity tool of choice in an accessible language * Author is a top security consultant for the CIA and provides gripping stories that show how steganography works * Appendix provides tools to help people detect and counteract stenanography
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Traditional security toolkits have concentrated mostly on defining a programming interface (API) and left the internals up to individual implementors. This book presents a design for a portable, flexible security architecture based on traditional security models involving a security kernel that controls access to security-relevant objects and attributes based on a configurable security policy. Layered on top of the kernel are various objects that abstract core functionality, such as encryption and digital signature capabilities, certificate management, and secure sessions and data enveloping (email encryption) in a manner that allows them to be easily moved into cryptographic devices, such as smart cards and crypto accelerators for extra pe... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Analyzing the legal issues concerning online and Internet privacy, this book covers the historical developments leading to the current state of the law and the relevant legal actions that have helped to shape it. Examined are the leading lawsuits that have asserted invasion of privacy on the Internet, the comparison of the state of the law in the United States with that of its principal trading partners around the world, and enforcement activity by the Federal Trade Commission. Also covered are proposals for new legislation and precedents for drafting a privacy policy that conforms to standards required by United States and international law.
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Outlines cost-effective, bottom-line solutions that show how companies can protect transactions over the Internet using PKI First book to explain how PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is used by companies to comply with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules mandated by the U.S. Department of Labor, Health, and Human Services Illustrates how to use PKI for important business solutions with the help of detailed case studies in health care, financial, government, and consumer industries
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