Litsy

Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear | Michael Bazzell

#TodayILearned more about Spyware😡🤢

I haven‘t read Ronan Farrow‘s reporting on Pegasus, but this 61 minute documentary on HBO Max gives a great overview.

Tagged the book that‘s lauded as the best owner‘s manual on going off the digital grid. We‘ve got the book and someday I‘ll read it. Just doesn‘t seem like there‘s much you can do to minimize intrusions unless you‘re truly willing to give up connected tech. I‘m not there, yet.

Bookwormjillk This one might fall in the category of do I really want to know 😂 (edited) 2d

DogMomIrene @Bookwormjillk Exactly! 😓 2d

Suet624 Remember when we heard our tv‘s were catching what we said? I remember the Good Wife having surveillance as a running part of a season? I know ads will pop up on Facebook if I talk about a product with a friend. 1d

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DogMomIrene @Suet624 I never watched The Good Wife, but sounds like they were on top of issues. AI has really upped the creepy factor for me. I had blogged about caring for my dogs. Took a long hiatus because of life stuff, but started to get back into it… only to realize that anything I create and place online will be used to train AI. I‘m in the process of closing up my blog and related accounts. I‘ll stick to reading and just posting about books. 1d

Suet624 Wow. That‘s a huge bummer to have to stop writing your blog. 😳😩 1d

MemoirsForMe Oh, this book and AI give me the creeps too. Big digital brother is always watching. 😬 1d

DogMomIrene @MemoirsForMe Yes! I‘ve been deleting various online accounts for a few weeks now. Being thoughtful about which accounts, like Litsy, that I‘ll keep. 18h

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rwmg

Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction | Sean Murphy, Fred Piper

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The historical parts were interesting and fun to try out (despite some typos) but the more modern (though since the book came out in 2002, not that modern) sections were more difficult to follow and could have done with more examples taken from real life to demonstrate how the theory is used.

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Oryx

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks | Scott J. Shapiro

Love the book stamp you can get put in your books in Libreria London

squirrelbrain Both books look great! ❤️ 6mo

RaeLovesToRead Is this... non fiction? A story?? 6mo

Oryx @RaeLovesToRead the bear one? Non fiction about hacking. Sounds really interesting, but also had a bear on it, so sold. 6mo

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RaeLovesToRead It was the fancy bear that made me think it might be a story 6mo

Oryx @RaeLovesToRead I know, it sounds like some magical realism. Apparently it's a Russian cyber espionage group 🤷 who knew? 6mo

RaeLovesToRead I feel someone needs to write "The Adventures of Fancy Bear" and it not be about that 6mo

julesG Recently watched a documentary about the bears. Scary stuff. 6mo

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NotCool

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks | Scott J. Shapiro

Scott Shapiro, Yale Professor: “Suppose, however, I want to send some of my writings to my friend at Stanford? (This is hypothetical, of course: I have no friends at Stanford)”.

NotCool Petty academic slights are a few of my favorite things. 6mo

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Bookwormjillk

Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien" | Jeremy Smith

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I have to give a presentation on cybersecurity this week and decided to re-listen to this audiobook. I absolutely love this book about a woman making a career in the early days of ethical hacking and penetration testing.

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Trace

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon | Kim Zetter

so-so

First half is hard to put down.

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eol

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage | Cliff Stoll

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Nicely written, and interesting from a historical standpoint—written during ye olde times when the Internet was still a cooing baby. Reads like a cross between a true crime / spy novel, slice-of-life memoir, confessions of a wavering anarchist, and an old Linux manual. An interesting mix, and enjoyable for a geek like me 👍

3.5/5

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