Hoover has agreed to release Skating on Stilts under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License 3.0.
This means you can copy it as many times as you like, send it to your friends, and post it on line. But there are a few limitations: You must give me credit as the original author, and you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work without permission.
Finally, for any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Since the terms are reproduced at the end of each chapter, and my name is on the cover, you are safe if you copy each chapter as you find it.
(The sticklers among you may notice that the copyright notice says that the publisher “publisher has made an online version of this work available” under a CC license. The publisher assures me that the version I’m posting here is the online version, so you don’t need to go looking for a version that says “this is the CC version.” You’ve already found it.)
Thanks to one commenter’s thoughtful suggestion, below is the Table of Contents for the book, matched with links to the parts that have been made available:
Part One: The Road to 9/11
- Introduction: The Gift
- Chapter 1: Skating on Stilts
- Chapter 2: Atta’s Soldier
- Chapter 3: To the Wall
- Chapter 4: Never Again
Part Two: Flight and Facts
- Chapter 5: Europe Picks a Privacy Fight
- Chapter 6: To the Brink
- Chapter 7: Al Qaeda’s Frequent Traveler Program
- Chapter 8: Privacy Victims in the Air
Part Three: Tomorrow’s Terrorism
- Chapter 9: Moore’s Outlaws
- Chapter 10: Big Brother’s Revenge
- Chapter 11: Invested in Insecurity
- Chapter 12: Smallpox in the Garage
Part Four: The Privacy Problem
- Chapter 13: What’s Wrong with Privacy?
- Chapter 14: Privacy for the Real World