How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life by J. J. Luna
(New York: St. Martin's, 2012), 294
- with enough money, anyone can track you, so your goal is to make it harder and more expensive (5)
- the four levels of invisibility (6)
- Chapter 2 - Separate your name from your home address
- lots of discussion about mail fraud
- Chapter 3 - Lies
- “A lie is a false statement made by one to another, who is entitled to hear and know the truth, and which a false statement tends toward injury to the other” (32)
- you can/should not lie to authorities but there is nothing wrong with withholding information or providing incorrect information to those without a need to know
- “A lie is a false statement made by one to another, who is entitled to hear and know the truth, and which a false statement tends toward injury to the other” (32)
- Chapter 4 - Mailboxes
- get a PO Box
- Chapter 5 - Ghost address
- Chapter 8 - DOB and SSN
- never give your DOB
- info about ssn (81)
- basically, don’t give the info and if they ask say you don’t provide it or ask why they need it
- always use your passport for ID instead of driver license since t does not have your address
- he recommends against obtaining credit
- Chapter 9 - Names and Signatues
- have an alternate, illegible signature
- have an alternate name (pen name) that is common
- Chapter 12 - email and the Internet
- “never forget that the Internet is a mysterious and highly dangerous place” (134)
- choose one strong password and use a part of the service name to make it unique (140)
- “...you can shoot for $100,000 a year. That will be sufficient to live a simple, debt-free life.” (253)
- Books he recommends
- How to Disappear by Frank Ahearn
- anything by Kevin Mitnick
- Social Engineering by Christopher Hadnagy
Topic: Internet Privacy