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     Own Your Privacy  by Wes Kussmaul - 24.95

Where do you live? In a house? Where else do you live? And where do you work? How much time do you spend looking at a computer screen? Don't you also live part of your life, and experience a significant part of your world, through that little window? If so, then is that window on your world as open as your access to the physical world is open? Or, is it controlled?

If your physical world--your home, your kids’ schools, your neighborhood, etc--consisted of images and words that were controlled by large distant organizations, you would assert your right to be free of such manipulation, wouldn't you? After all, our freedom comes from our willingness to assert our right to freedom.

Wes Kussmaul, founder of the company that popularized the Internet and author of Quiet Enjoyment, directs his newest work towards Privacy Activists everywhere. Learn how to protect yourself, your family, your community, and most of all your privacy, with THE solution to today’s “broken” internet.

“Quiet Enjoyment. That’s the legal name for the right we have to use our home and our business premises as we see fit, as long as we don’t bother others in doing so. Wes Kussmaul brought the internet into our homes and businesses when he founded Delphi. Today, the concept of Quiet Enjoyment gets lost when you spend 20 minutes a day getting rid of spam, and even more time in fear of contracting a virus. The worst thing is, the cops don’t even know who the bad guys are.” --Chris Hynes, founding partner, Hastings Equity Partners; former Executive VP, State Street Bank & Trust Company; co-founder of the FIX Financial Transaction Protocol.

“Wes Kussmaul has produced some phenomenal works in the area of privacy, trust, and authentication. His work is important in this age of dramatic insecurity and The Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure provides a comprehensive and workable framework for a better digital future. Kussmaul is one to listen to!” --Noam Eppel, Senior Security Consultant, Vivica Information Security, Inc.

340 pages, paperback

   

     Quiet Enjoyment  by Wes Kussmaul - 39.95

The solution to the Internet's problems - spam, malware, botnets, predation, fraud - is available, but it cannot be deployed the way technology has historically been deployed. By designing, building and managing habitable online spaces using the same methods and procedures that are used with physical real estate, and with PKI "construction materials," InDoor online facilities can be places of quiet enjoyment.

"Quiet enjoyment" is the legal term for what a building occupant has a right to expect in any jurisdiction in the world: a manageable space where people can work or play in peace and security.

In this book you'll learn how the Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure applies the methods and procedures of commercial real estate, along with public key technology, to give us what we need from our online spaces.

570 pages, softcover, 8" x 11", with glossary and index

     Moonlight on the Amazon   by Don Best - 22.98

The Amazon is a land of rough edges and wild colors, of raucous sounds and pungent smells, of extreme heat and unrelenting rain. Yet somehow we love it! That is because it s also a land of warm hearts and passionate faith. I think the reason the Holy Spirit so dearly loves it here is because the Holy Spirit is here so dearly loved. In the midst of this vast and troubled garden, God truly inhabits the praises of His people, just as He promised. Despite our many weaknesses as missionaries and our clumsiness as foreigners, God enables us to be of use. For this we thank Him every day! And also at night....                                                                                                                                                                                           
80 pages, hardcover, 10" x 7.6"

     The Sex Life of Tables  by Wes Kussmaul - 24.95

Two or more tables of information about you, governed by the finest privacy statements, can mate in the middle of the night, on a server on some Asian outpost, producing a “join” that is not accountable to anyone. The sex habits of relational databases are as private as privacy policies are public. Joins are ephemeral—they happen and then they vanish. Their progeny is a bit of information about you that, after perhaps mating with another dozen or so products of such joins around the world, form a very revealing picture of you.

Joins can be immensely powerful. Tracking down their source can take months and years of intelligent sleuthing, during which time another few thousand generations of joins have come and gone and wreaked their havoc. If Stephen Hawking is right--if computer viruses are a form of life--they are primitive, asexual organisms. Table joins, by contrast, produce a more highly evolved, sexual, and potentially more powerful life form.

Law, organizational accountability, and identifiable collections of information are comforting concepts when our privacy is threatened. But these concepts, as they are typically invoked by those who comment on privacy issues, can be meaningless.

What the experts say: “Read this book” --Dan Geer, CTO Verdaysys and noted security expert

“Wes Kussmaul brought the internet into our homes and businesses when he founded Delphi.” [He shows us] “…today, the right we have to use our home and our business premises as we see fit, as long as we don’t bother others in doing so, gets lost when you spend 20 minutes a day getting rid of spam, and even more time in fear of contracting a virus. The worst thing is, the cops don’t even know who the bad guys are.” --Chris Hynes, founding partner, Hastings Equity Partners; former Executive VP, State Street Bank & Trust Company; co-founder of the FIX Financial Transaction Protocol.

“Wes Kussmaul has produced some phenomenal works in the area of privacy, trust, and authentication. His work is important in this age of dramatic insecurity and The Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure provides a comprehensive and workable framework for a better digital future. Kussmaul is one to listen to!"” --Noam Eppel, Senior Security Consultant, Vivica Information Security Inc.

340 pages, paperback    

      The Future Needs You  by Wes Kussmaul - 14.95

In spite of the best efforts of security technologists, corporate network security continues to erode.

Even with virus protection software, more and more home computers are taken over, made to act as servers for mysterious overseas network operators.

Learn why a workable solution to urgent computer security problems will not come from the information technology community. "Identity is the foundation of security" says the author, the founder of Delphi, the company that popularized the Internet.

Rapidly growing identity technologies such as sender ID and identity management systems leave out the most important ingredient – the reliable identity of the user.

In this highly acclaimed new work, Wes Kussmaul puts forth a realistic plan whereby experienced paralegals, notaries, signing agents, court reporters, and other attestation professionals can fill this critical need, and provides a specific description of a new part time or full time practice for individual paralegal professionals.

319 pages, softcover, 7" x 10", with glossary and index