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How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition)

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Author: J.J. Luna
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2

ISBN: 0312319061
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.4480973
EAN: 9780312319069
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Publication Date: March 18, 2004
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Product Description
From cyberspace to crawl spaces, new innovations in information gathering have left the private life of the average person open to scrutiny, and worse, exploitation. In this thoroughly revised update of his immensely popular guide How to Be Invisible, J.J. Luna shows you how to protect yourself from these information predators by securing your vehicle and real estate ownership, your bank accounts, your business dealings, your computer files, your home address, and more.

J.J. Luna, a highly trained and experienced security consultant, shows you how to achieve the privacy you crave and deserve, whether you just want to shield yourself from casual scrutiny or take your life savings with you and disappearing without a trace. Whatever your needs, Luna reveals the shocking secrets that private detectives and other seekers of personal information use to uncover information and then shows how to make a serious commitment to safeguarding yourself.

There is a prevailing sense in our society that true privacy is a thing of the past. Filled with vivid real life stories drawn from the headlines and from Luna's own consulting experience, How to Be Invisible, Revised Edition is a critical antidote to the privacy concerns that continue only to grow in magnitude as new and more efficient ways of undermining our personal security are made available. Privacy is a commonly-lamented casualty of the Information Age and of the world's changing climate-but that doesn't mean you have to stand for it.

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What Elishia Windfohr Will be putting in everyone's Xmas Stocking! November 5, 2009
Elishia Windfohr (Newport Beach, California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is such an excellent book on privacy techniques. It really touches every aspect of your life that you thought was privacy protected. What I like the most is that JJ Luna discusses various levels of privacy, and more important the privacy that fits you. So the more privacy you want the more steps you can take to acheive it. He even talks many methods on paying people, to titling your car etc, I highly recommend it. So all friends of Elishia Windfohr will be getting this for xmas. This will be your new bible, no puns intended. So privacy protect your life not just for yourself but for the future of our children.

So next person who says Elishia Windfohr please explain how can i attain privacy? their getting this book. end of story!

5 out of 5 stars

... August 5, 2009
Ricksler (USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book was great stuff. I learned more about privacy from this book than I have in my entire life. It is a very good book about learning the ropes of attaining and maintaining privacy. I would say anyone who is remotely concerned about their safety or privacy should read this book.

1 out of 5 stars

Not Worth The Time April 4, 2009
Andrew Murphy (Kansas City MO USA)
9 out of 19 found this review helpful

This book was very disappointing. Don't waste your time. Instead of providing and concrete resources, the main advice is to fudge your SSN or have someone receive your mail. Skip this tome.

5 out of 5 stars

Unique book, nothing else like it February 6, 2009
C. Price (Bellingham, WA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

A previous reviewer wrote that Luna's book has "Some good information, but a lot is wayyy out there." Since I have both his original book as well as the revised version and have studied them both, I think what is "wayyy out there" is the reviewer's ability to understand what she reads.

For example, she writes, "If you want to `fly under the radar' then you can't call the police if you're in danger." No such recommendation is in the book.

Again: "Luna even suggests giving your SSN to get a passport ..." Correct, but then she adds, "so there again you can be tracked. Maybe not by the every day Joe, but certainly by anyone that wants to pay a few bucks to have you found."

Wow, imagine that. Pay someone a "few bucks" and they will not only extract your SSN from the U.S. government's passport file, but "have you found." American passports do not include any address whatsoever.

She goes on the say that Luna "says NOT to carry your SS card with you, or even your Medicare card, since it has your SSN on it - but then you're doing the same thing if you carry your passport." American passports do not include the holder's Social Security number.

The list goes on and on, but enough about her errors. How to Be Invisible is a reference book with no equal. Here are a few of the 22 chapters:

2. U.S. Mail--Serious Dangers
7. Untraceable Trash, Anonymous Utilities
9. Your Alternate Names and Signatures
14. Bank Accounts and Money Transfers
16. Hidden Ownership of Vehicles and Real Estate
19. How to Secretly Run a Home-Based Business

In addition, the book includes a 12-page index. If I had to quote just one sentence from Luna's book, it would be this one on page 20:

"Do not, as long as you live, ever again allow your real name to be coupled with your home address."

3 out of 5 stars

Some good information , but a lot is wayyy out there. February 2, 2009
M.M. Billings (MA)
13 out of 21 found this review helpful

Who other that someone being stalked or an abused wife would need the deeper levels of privacy? Level one is certainly good for various issues in our society. But, the only other reasons I can think of for the deeper levels of privacy is the criminal element.

On his website he offers 150 ghost addresses. If that is all he is offering, then there can't be many people following the directions in this book.

If you want to `fly under the radar' then you can't even call 911 if hurt or sick.

If you want to `fly under the radar' then you can't call the police if you're in danger.

At his website I was reading the messages, and someone mentioned a very important point in the book and questioned it. Luna's response was that it was a typo that nobody caught. The typo totally gave the reverse of the correct information. How can you count on a book that gives you the wrong information?

Actually trying to follow the information and become invisible - without giving up personal information - is like going round and round in circles. Maybe you can do it if you give up all worldly possessions, and live out in the wilderness.

And, yes, your government will be able to find you, cause even Luna says there you do have to give your SSN. And, there are PI's that can access your tax records, so there goes any real hiding out if someone wants to pay a couple hundred dollars to find you.

Luna even suggests giving your SSN to get a passport (cause it costs $500.00 if you don`t, and also raises suspicion), so there again you can be tracked. Maybe not by the every day Joe, but certainly by anyone that wants to pay a few bucks to have you found.

Maybe SOME of these tactics could be used to prevent identity theft, but not unless a person started covering their tracks 20 or 30 years ago. Cause all a persons information is already out there, and going into hiding won't stop people from using the information that is already out there. Maybe if you start covering your tracks now, maybe in a few years you'll be protected - that is if you want to spend all your valuable life time doing this stuff.

Especially, how does this apply to small towns? Are you supposed to give up all your friends and move to some totally new place? If you don't then changing identities won't do much good.

If you carry only a passport instead of a drivers licence - for one thing giving a passport to a cop if you're pulled over or in an accident just doesn't fly - and if you do lose your passport or are robbed, well they can steal your identity or do anything they want cause your passport DOES contain your SSN. He says NOT to carry your SS card with you, or even your Medicare card, since it has your SSN on it - but then you're doing the same thing if you carry your passport. Round and round.

His recommendations of not going to college, not working for somebody else (so you don't have to give information), not investing cause you just want to keep your cash and valuables hidden at home - well, all that is patently ridiculous in this day and age. Even though the stock market is bad now, now is the time to buy (whether in the stock market, or houses). Not keep your money squirrels away in various 'holes' not earning anything.

On the one hand he suggests renting instead of buying, yet in another part of the book he says finding a place to rent without having to give up information will be the most difficult thing to do. Round and round we go - AGAIN!

He says you can't trust anyone, but I sure would not buy a house or a car, but put it in someone else's name. Man what a windfall for them if they aren't honest. Course you can always follow his other suggestion and not buy anything, including a house, until you can pay `cash' for it. And, how do you trust all these strangers that you're getting ghost addresses from, or LLC's? Say you pay someone 6 months cash rent `up front' what's to say they won't just take the money, then tell the cops to evict you in a month. Do you have papers on the transaction? Don't you think the landlord will know you `can't make an issue' - cause otherwise you wouldn't be doing things in the manner you are. You may be hiding information, but you are leaving yourself vulnerable in so many other ways.

There is some important practical information he could have given to prevent identity theft - which he did not. Someone even asked about the subject over on his website, and he totally ignored the question. Perhaps he felt that by answering the question, he'd give the criminal element the information. But the thing is the everyday citizen needs the information to protect themselves from the criminal element, and in this one important area he just TOTALLY ignored it. Maybe that was just 'too low level', but the thing is, if a person protected themselves at these lower levels they probably wouldn't need the higher levels - unless you were being stalked or something like that.

I am an intelligent person, but I guess my mind just doesn't wrap around how to accomplish the deeper levels, or how to afford it for that matter. I do plan on instituting stronger privacy though, and will use SOME of the suggestions in his book to do so. Even though I consider his book `way out there', there is also some useful information for the everyday Joe, or Jane.

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