Googling Security or iPod for Dummies Mini Kit

Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?

Author: Greg Conti

What Does Google Know about You? And Who Are They Telling?

 

When you use Google’s “free” services, you pay, big time–with personal information about yourself. Google is making a fortune on what it knows about you…and you may be shocked by just how much Google does know. Googling Security is the first book to reveal how Google’s vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business–and what you can do to protect yourself.

 

Unlike other books on Google hacking, this book covers information you disclose when using all of Google’s top applications, not just what savvy users can retrieve via Google’s search results. West Point computer science professor Greg Conti reveals the privacy implications of Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Groups, Google Alerts, Google’s new mobile applications, and more. Drawing on his own advanced security research, Conti shows how Google’s databases can be used by others with bad intent, even if Google succeeds in its pledge of “don’t be evil.”

 

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  Uncover the trail of informational “bread crumbs” you leave when you use Google search
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  How Gmail could be used to track your personal network of friends, family, and acquaintances
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  How Google’s map and location tools could disclose the locations of your home, employer, family and friends, travel plans, and intentions
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  How the information stockpiles of Google and other online companies may be spilled, lost, taken, shared, or subpoenaed and later used for identitytheft or even blackmail
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  How the Google AdSense and DoubleClick advertising services could track you around the Web
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  How to systematically reduce the personal information you expose or give away

 

This book is a wake-up call and a “how-to” self-defense manual: an indispensable resource for everyone, from private citizens to security professionals, who relies on Google.

 

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

About the Author xxi

 

Chapter 1: Googling 1

Chapter 2: Information Flows and Leakage 31

Chapter 3: Footprints, Fingerprints, and Connections 59

Chapter 4: Search 97

Chapter 5: Communications 139

Chapter 6: Mapping, Directions, and Imagery 177

Chapter 7: Advertising and Embedded Content 205

Chapter 8: Googlebot 239

Chapter 9: Countermeasures 259

Chapter 10: Conclusions and a Look to the Future 299

 

Index 317

 

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iPod for Dummies Mini Kit

Author: Cheryl Rhodes

Power up your iPod, fill it with tunes, and be your own digital DJ. With iPod® For Dummies®, any iPod owner can easily master all the great aspects of this music machine. This useful kit contains retractable earphones and handy reference cards with iPod shortcuts that you can carry in your wallet. You also receive a 32-page booklet of iPod information that gives you the lowdown about basic setup, managing your music, and troubleshooting.

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