Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear Paperback – August 8, 2024

A longtime fan of the authors works and ventures, I have always had a little bit more of a privacy and security minded approach when it comes to online as well a personal interactions. This book serves as a great reference guide and point of possible launch for many out there who already may practice a fair bit of range in privacy practices, but are looking to increase the depth of efficiency in practices. Or perhaps it is the other way around for many as well. I can see how it was made in the hopes to be understood by anyone who wants to understand. While also being quite educational with its amvery practical, real world walkthrough approachs. Taking you step by step at times for things like OS settings, terminal commands, browser settings and more. Eventually growing into a more all around lifestyle piece on what it means to be using fake identites that purposefully age online in order to better gain results for further tactics and methods. Giving great information on items like Postage and Identification Cards, business and assets function, trust funds, home and car purchases and even an ACD(advanced care directive) section for the event of your untimely, and hopefully private passing.

Thoughtfully, well, detailed useful information

Look overall this an amazing and high quality book. When you read it you feel that the author has put a lotta effort into this. I can imagine how much he went through. There are things that I learned for the first time and a lot that I already know. Also, some stuff I disagree on but thats normal. One more thing, if privacy has a scale of 1 to 100 where 100 is extreme insane privacy and 1 no privacy at all. Then I would rate this like 65. Well 35% is missing because this is not like extreme privacy and off the grid thing. Its targeted for like celebrities, and just high profile clients, gov people etc. So all depends on your threat model. But I give it a 5 stars nevertheless. I would now want to grab his OSINT book because it looks like this author is writes interesting and valuable books.

This book is an exhaustive, step-by-step guide for those seeking total digital and physical privacy, filled with actionable tasks and deeply rooted in the author's expertise. It demystifies complex security practices, offering a structured approach to becoming nearly invisible in today's hyper-connected world. Whether you're starting small or ready for radical changes, this comprehensive manual empowers readers to navigate their unique path to ultimate privacy. Even as someone familiar with tech, I found its actionable strategies and proactive mindset both fascinating and empowering. It’s a sobering yet invaluable guide for those ready to take full control of their digital and physical footprints.

He was thrilled. Started reading it to the point of ignoring the rest of his gifts. Outside of the price, I would recommend it again.

This book is a must have for anyone who cares about privacy, it is very easy to understand and is presented in a way that the reader can Implement them into there lives. And it has a lot of guides that you won't find online, where most of them are dumb down setting to turn on, this book will let you greatly improve your privacy and you will learn a lot of new things that you didn't know before.

The media could not be loaded. The author has made several revisions to this 5th edition but you have to repurchase the book directly from Micheal Bazzell’s website for an additional $40 to get access to all the edits made after publication. Additionally, the book is filled with Amazon affiliate links for products that provide a false sense of privacy/security, such as “mic lock” a device that claims to disable the microphones by simply plugging it in, but readily available security researchers have proven that mic lock is easily bypassed. This book is a good place to start your privacy journey but do your own research and question everything until you have a solid understanding, in this way the book will serve as an outline for you to build upon.

I wish I had the technical expertise to use the tips in this book but it's beyond my pay grade. And I've been using computers since the 80s.