The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

The book is about digital anonymity. It starts with the very basic asks - strong passwords, securing your home network and the like. But soon gets on to things that most wouldn't even imagine. Burner phones are just a baffling idea.

Sites like DuckDuckGo, StartPage and ProtonMail are interesting tools that can be used. Features like pixel tracking, canvas fingerprinting allow online companies to know a lot about what you're doing on their site.

Reading about Tor was refreshing as I had known and used it quite a few years ago. HTTPS Everywhere, PGP and CanvasBlocker are innovative plug-ins for your browser to assist in staying hidden. It was mind-numbing to know that your typing "style" can be tracked as well and Keyboard Privacy defends you by randomizing the keystrokes before they go to DOM.

The last part of the book details the steps for you to stay "alone" in this connected world.

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to become completely or partly invisible in the digital world depending on your need. It does take some effort to become completely invisible but the average person doesn't need to go to that extreme. Kevin explains very well how to accomplish both.

Of course he answers the question a lot of people ask which is why do I need to go invisible if I'm doing nothing wrong? His answer isn't just contained in one sentence or paragraph but encompasses a good portion of the book. Believe me, when he's done answering the question you'll understand why you should be following some or all of the advice he gives to make yourself anonymous.

If you don't care that nearly everything about you is known to a multitude of companies, such as when you searched on sensitive topics like how can I get help with treating depression and much more, by all means ignore Kevin's advice. Just remember that we live in a digital world now and unless you take action to protect your privacy, everything about you is indexed and available to be searched. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound good to me.

Every student of forensic science knows about Locard’s exchange principle, which states that a criminal brings something into the crime scene and leaves with something from it—both can be valuable as forensic evidence.

When it comes to cybercrime, digital forensics, and general computer usage, cyber experts debate whether Locard’s fully applies. Either way, the simple act of fetching a Web page can create thousands of log entries. In 1999, when software businessman Scott McNealy said “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” little did he imagine a world where every click, search, and user preference is tracked and indefinitely stored. Anyone who uses a free Internet service becomes a piece of data. After a while, the data providers may know more about you than you do yourself.

In 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, author Kevin Mitnick shows readers what they can do to leave no digital trace. So, can a person become fully invisible on the Internet? Yes; but with a caveat. While Mitnick shows how one can do that in this most interesting book, it’s not practical for the vast majority of users.

Notwithstanding that it’s quite difficult to be fully invisible, there are still countless strategies detailed in this book that readers can put into action to better protect their privacy, buying habits, lifestyle choices, and more.

Being anonymous today requires a lot of work and constant vigilance. If you want to stay online while retaining your privacy, this book provides some guidance.

Interesting book with lots of great info, some of it is really basic, but some of it is more advanced.
Don't get the audiobook unless you like pausing frequently to write down the web address or name of suggested software, app or other tool; which happens several times in each chapter. I returned the audiobook and bought the hard copy.

This was a very effective, wide-ranging exploration of online security. Mitnick covers a lot of topics that I had never heard about before, and is not afraid to share some basic technical details and analogies that make it clear how security features operate. I recommend this work to anyone interested in some of the more intimate details of how to remain safe online, and how to understand the reality of the risks that you are exposed to when using the Internet.

I've been taking cybersecurity courses through my employer and am doing supplemental reading to bring myself up-to-speed on the topic. There's a lot in this book I don't understand, but it's still a fascinating read - which speaks to the effectiveness of this author. It's quite an education!

Decent book. Focuses mainly on phone phreaking and less about hacking. Still, although a satisfactory read, I wouldn't recommend it to my colleagues with InfoSec as there is other industry-focused material available.

This book provides a disturbing look at how privacy doesn't really exist in 2017 if you're using the latest technology and not going to extreme measures to cover your tracks. While Mitnick offers some quite basic advice, such as to choose good passwords, that public wifi is not secure, and the store Echo is pretty creepy, I found most of his recommendations to be far too technical and labor intensive to be of any use to me.