How This Book Is Organized

To help you understand the current status of the Internet environment, the risks that can affect everyone, and how to become safer online almost immediately, this book first provides a checklist of steps you can take to become safer today and is then divided into four parts.

Part I provides an overview of the types of activity going on today that can put you and your family at risk online. Chapter 1 explores how the same types of crimes that occur offline are now being committed online, only with different tools. Chapter 2 explores many of the misconceptions about anonymity online that can lull many people into behaving differently than they would in a face-to-face situation and putting themselves at risk. Finally,

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