Your Secrets Are My Business: A Security Expert Reveals How Your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, and Even Your Mail Make You an Easy T

by Dave Stern, Kevin McKeown, David Stern

Book Overview

Kevin McKeown knows how easy it is to find out anything about anyone-from credit card, bank account, and Social Security numbers to family histories. A top investigator and security advisor, he has spent the last twenty years doing covert sleuthing for everyone from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to A-list Hollywood celebrities. Now this professional insider shares the tools of his trade, and offers concrete tips for safeguarding our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452282047
• ISBN13: 9780452282049
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

... and a dirty business it is

This book shows you just how simple it is for another person to get information from you and about you, to be used in good or bad ways. After reading this book, you are sure to change a few of your daily routines and be more concerned about your trash and phone conversations besides other things A great read - a must have for everyone concerned about privacy

Great advice on protecting yourself!

I was unable to put the book down it was so easy to read! Lots of great advice on ways to protect yourself from con artists who want to steal your identity. Who knew that it was so easy to have someone get personal information on anyone? This book is worth reading to protect you and your family!

WELL WORTH THE READ

I saw the book in a bookstore and bought it on a whim. Interesting, funny, and also educational. Some of the issues of infringement into your privacy are scary. A very, very good read!

Learn how to reclaim your privacy

This book makes it really clear that privacy doesn't exist. McKeown uses some very funny stories to illustrate the techniques the con men use to steal people's identities. Not only is this a fun read, it also has great reference information as to how to protect your credit, secure your privacy, and make it so you are NOT a target for the criminals. This is a book for everyone -- if you don't think you could be a target for the identity theives, you're wrong. If you're not careful, they can get enough information just from looking at your car parked in a parking lot to rip you off -- scary stuff.

Unusually informative!

I publish a newsletter on personal privacy and I am the author of a forthcoming book on this subject. Most of the books in this field--and I have them all--are full of generalizations and rehashed ideas. Kevin McKeown furnishes some surprising new information and co-author Dave Stern writes in an entertaining (if sometimes disorganized) fashion. If you wish to find out how private investigators can track you down, buy this book.