Privacy and identity
Escape The Plantation
Silicon Valley, the NSA and the Botnet Builders intend to own you. Here’s how to prevent it.
by Wes Kussmaul
Identity is the foundation of security. It’s time you owned yours.
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Escape The PlantationAbout the book
Escape The Plantation
The biggest search, digital media and social networking companies make most of their money from one thing: data about you. What you buy, who you know, what you believe.
Escape The Plantation explains how that arrangement works and proposes a way out: the Authenticity Economy, where you keep your privacy, others can still hold you accountable, and you own your digital identity outright.
Inside the book
What’s inside
- Your digital self as property
- FUD and the cookie clubs
- The Quiet Enjoyment infrastructure
- ID-PKI: the construction materials
- Using public authority against spam
- The twelve parts of Quiet Enjoyment
- Putting it to work, and the Highway Home
About the author
Wes Kussmaul
More than three decades building secure online spaces, starting with Delphi, the first service to bring the Internet to mass audiences.
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