This book is about people; people who do good and evil things with technology, people who are victims of technology, and victims who become avengers by turning the tables on the technology that victimizes them.


You'll meet Steve Kirsch, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire who sued the company that inundated him with junk faxes for $2.2 trillion dollars. You'll meet Jason Eric Smith, a struggling college student who set up a sting worthy of Paul Newman and Robert Redford when a con artist ripped-off his Apple PowerBook in an eBay auction.

I sought input from leading experts in the fields of computer security and privacy like George Kurtz, Steve Gibson, Ron Kessler, and Michael Froomkin to provide you with practical steps you can take to protect your privacy, your personal information, and yourself.