The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin D. Mitnick

Author:Kevin D. Mitnick [Mitnick, Kevin D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316380508
Google: o2z_jwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0316380504
Barnesnoble: 0316380504
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-02-13T22:00:00+00:00

Seriously. You don’t want someone to hit the Back button on the browser and see your dating information. Or change it. Also, remember to uncheck the box that says “Remember me” on the log-in screen. You don’t want this—or any other—computer to automatically log someone else in to your dating account.

Say you go on a first date, maybe a second date. People don’t always reveal their true selves on a first or second date. Once your date has friended you on Facebook or followed you on Twitter or on any other social network, he or she can see all your friends, your pictures, your interests… things can get weird fast.

We’ve covered online services: what about mobile apps?

Dating apps can report your location, and part of that is by design. Say you see someone you like in your area: you can then use the app to find out if that person is nearby. The mobile dating app Grindr gives very precise location information for its subscribers… perhaps too precise.

Researchers Colby Moore and Patrick Wardle from the cybersecurity firm Synack were able to spoof requests to Grindr in order to follow some of the people in its service as they moved about a single city. They also found that if they had three accounts search for one individual, they could triangulate the results to get a much more precise measurement of where that person was at any given moment.26

Maybe dating apps aren’t your thing, but even logging in to the Yelp service to search for a good restaurant gives third-party businesses information about your sex, age, and location. A default setting within the app allows it to send information back to the restaurant, telling it, for example, that a woman, age thirty-one, from New York City was looking at its review. You can, however, go into your settings and choose “Basics,” which reveals only your city (unfortunately you cannot disable the feature entirely).27 Perhaps the best way to avoid this is to not log in and simply use Yelp as a guest.

Regarding geolocation, it is a good idea in general to check if any mobile apps you use broadcast your location. In most cases you can turn this feature off, either in each individual app or entirely.28

And before agreeing to download any Android app, always read the permissions first. You can view these permissions in Google Play by going to the app, then scrolling down to the section above Google Play content that says

“Permissions.” If the permissions make you feel uncomfortable, or if you think they give the app developer too much control, then do not download the app. Apple does not provide similar information about the apps in its store, and instead permissions are prompted as they are needed when using the app. In fact, I prefer to use iOS devices because the operating system always prompts before disclosing private information—like my location data. Also iOS is much more secure than Android if you don’t jailbreak your iPhone or iPad. Of

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