mphrase.org

Big Brother is certainly watching you, as George Orwell predicted in his book 1984 . If you're like most folks I know, you've been lulled into antipathy with silencing arguments like "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear"[ 1 ], or push it from your mind to avoid your feelings of powerlessness. Truth be told, you're not completely powerless, but building your privacy is a difficult feat. In Kevin Mitnick 's book,  The Art of Invisibility , he teaches you the effort it takes to grow your anonymity in today's world of digital surveillance. He starts with the basics - finding a portal to the digital world that isn't connected to you. Then he teaches you how to use that portal to gain a foothold of an anonymous identity on the Internet. He teaches you how recognize what would jeopardize linking that anonymous identity to your true identity. His primary audience are those who are interested in personal privacy for it's ow...

I was accepted to a graduate program in cybersecurity. I've worked in the computing field for over two decades - starting in information technology moving to software development. Growing up the movies Wargames and Hackers inspired me to enter the computing field. I was too frightened of getting into trouble to follow  David  or Dade 's path. I envied their intelligence and ingenuity. The demand for cybersecurity has been growing in the past decade or so, and due to that I became aware of a legal path to learning the tricks of my childhood heroes.