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Firewalls

by John R. Vacca, Scott Ellis
December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
16h 40m
English
Digital Press
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Preventing Eavesdropping to Protect
Your Privacy
An amazing amount of personal information is readily available on the
Internet. For example, if you’ve forgotten the date of a friend’s
birthday, just check http://anybirthday.com. That brings up another
disquieting thought. Just how many companies or web sites use a birth
date to verify identification? Once you know the birthday, it’s simple to
send a free, digital greeting card, but when you e-mail that card to a
friend, have you also given it to marketers looking for new customers?
In fact, have you compromised your friend’s privacy or passwords?
It is not only individuals who worry about privacy. ...
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