Your Secrets Are My Business: Security Expert Reveals How your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, Even Your Mail Make You a Target

Your Secrets Are My Business: Security Expert Reveals How your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, Even Your Mail Make You a Target
by Kevin McKeown, Dave Stern

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Book Review: Good material. Makes you think
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Summary of Your Secrets Are My Business: Security Expert Reveals How your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, Even Your Mail Make You a Target

Kevin McKeown knows how easy it is to find out anything about anyone-from credit card, bank account, and Social Security numbers to family histories. A top investigator and security advisor, he has spent the last twenty years doing covert sleuthing for everyone from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to A-list Hollywood celebrities. Now this professional insider shares the tools of his trade, and offers concrete tips for safeguarding our lives from the threats posed by the everyday conveniences we take for granted, from the cell phone to the family car. You'll learn about:

-- Shoulder surfing
-- Behavioral fingerprints
-- The black box
-- Traveling eyes
-- Phone clone And what you can do to protect yourself

Entertaining, informative, and instructive, with thrilling accounts of McKeown's high-profile cases, Your Secrets Are My Business is a must-read for everyone who wants to keep their secrets to themselves.

The book alternates, on the one hand, between morbidly entertaining stories of McKeown's days in the trenches following the trail of insurance fraud to the Caribbean and digging through Dumpsters to piece together criminal profiles and, on the other, extremely practical tips for ensuring your privacy (even if you aren't a villainous mastermind). The authors keep the reader interested while making their case for a return to old-fashioned notions of private life. It takes quite a bit of energy to protect your personal information, but the freedom from harassment by junk mailers, telephone solicitors, and other unsavory types is worth it. Whether you want to know how to stay in hiding or just want to learn why people care about what car you drive, Your Secrets Are My Business will make your life seem a thousand times more interesting, because you'll see it through the eyes of a professional investigator. --Rob Lightner