Protect Your Privacy on the Internet

Get the strategies and software you need to protect your privacy on the Net. Is your complete life story available to anyone with Internet access? It's really not all that hard to snoop in cyberspace. As more and more business is conducted over the Internet, it has become increasingly difficult for both businesses and individual users to protect private information. Your reputation, your finances, and your basic right to privacy are on the line every day. What can you do about it? You can fight back. Protect Your Privacy on the Internet tells you everything you need to know to ensure your privacy and use the same technology that's being used against you to protect yourself. You'll get industrial-strength encryption tools to keep your affairs secret, the way they ought to be. Bryan Pfaffenberger arms you with privacy defense strategies such as: * Creating a bulletproof password * Getting your name out of the databases * Cleaning up your browser's trails * Protect Your Privacy on the Internet gives you proven privacy defense strategies and techniques to help you make the Net a safer place to work and play. You'll get the names of Internet privacy organizations that are working to protect your privacy rights and find out what you can do to help. On the accompanying CD-ROM you'll find a collection of Windows privacy freeware and shareware, including: * Pronto96 -an e-mail program that works in conjunction with encryption software to protect your e-mail * Mutilate -software that thoroughly erases files beyond recovery, even by expert snoopers * Win-Secure-It(r) -a utility preventing unauthorized access to files on your computer * AMSD Ariadna(TM) -a full-featured browser that reads tables and Java but ignores "cookies," text files that transparently save where you've been. * Random Password Generator -a program enabling you to generate up to 1,000,000 passwords to protect you against unauthorized access to your Internet account. * Cyber Patrol(TM) -parental control software that prevents kids from uploading personal and demographic information to commercial sites.