The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age

By Dr John Watson & Alan Pearce

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age: Elementary Cyber Security

I quote from the back cover of this great book: “Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of all time. He is driven to right the wrongs of the world. It is only natural that he should turn his attention to the internet.”

If only all the books we are required to read could be as engaging as this one!

Yes, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age: Elementary Cyber Security is full of the acronyms and made-up words associated with the technology of cyber security and privacy. But oh, how it’s presented!

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson start their eminently civilized conversation (a French phrase thrown in from time to time) in Holmes’ living room. Over the course of the book the conversation continues over dinners, in Kensington Gardens, in front of the British Museum. The two friends eat and smoke. They stroll. The observe the delights around them. You get the idea.

Throughout, slowly and steadily, master Detective Sherlock Holmes reveals just how the innocent Doctor Watson is wide-open to being hacked, tracked and compromised.

I learned so much! And in such pleasant fashion!

If it’s time you reviewed or refreshed the way your personal communications are set up — your phone. computers, other devices and home network, you will love reading this book! I suggest you have a pen and paper nearby so you can take notes of all the settings and the security and privacy software that Sherlock Holmes — uh, excuse me, author Pearce — suggests.

When it gets to the DarkWeb, the tone and the subject matter get darker. But as a knowledgeable consumer, you want to know this stuff, too.

I recommend this book heartily.

Virginia Nicols
Your Emergency Preparedness Team

Here’s the link to Amazon:

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook for the Digital Age: Elementary Cyber Security

P.S. Get the paperback because you’ll want to mark up some of the pages and attach colored flags. You’ll surely be returning more than once to improve your personal digital set-up.

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