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Sanchit Jain

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated - 0 views

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SOCIAL authenticity control IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT science politics ITGS

shared by Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      there is no individuality, aynbody can be "created".SOCIAL
  • You can just engineer a crime scene,”
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      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      Science and the Environment, Politics and Government IMPACT
  • A potential invasion of personal privacy is another.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      Control, Policies and Standards, Integrity SOCIAL
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  • stored in law enforcement databases as a series of numbers and letters corresponding to variations at 13 spots in a person’s genome.
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      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: basic hardware, used in the process to create DNA
  • Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
     
    they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
Shih-Chen Chiu

'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8197442.stm

ITGS SOCIAL & ETHICAL ISSUES reliability IT SYSTEMS IN CONTEXT software AREAS OF IMPACT business art entertainment

shared by Shih-Chen Chiu on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
  • Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context-software & applications
  • "Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues- globalization, equality of acces
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  • The site is currently on trial in India and it is thought there are plans to extend this to China and Russia.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact- business
  • In a statement Facebook said the new service would be a "faster, simpler version similar to the Facebook experience you get on a mobile phone".
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues people and machines
Eunice Vincent

The Net closes in on internet piracy - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...n-internet-piracy-1772820.html

SOCIAL security control policies IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business arts ITGS

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  • Seven million people could be criminalised under government plans to crack down on internet piracy,
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      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      social: control
  • The illicit downloading of music and films on the internet,
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      it systems: communications
  • persuaded by the argument for tough laws to curb illegal file-sharing after an intensive lobbying campaign by influential people in the music and film industry.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact: arts and entertainment
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  • Individuals would be hit by restricted internet access – from slowing down broadband to blocking access altogether – and could face fines of up to £50,000.
Omkar Naik

BBC NEWS | UK | Small town 'online crime hotspot' - 0 views

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SOCIAL IT SYSTEMS IMPACT security privacy politics comm sys int systems reliability integrity people

shared by Omkar Naik on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Last year, 24% of all internet purchases there were made using stolen credit card details, according to security company The Third Man.
  • Durham Police say investigations are being hampered because people are told to report fraud to their banks first.
  • Shildon, in the DL area, is a former industrial town with a population of 10,000, and police believe that just one or two people may be responsible for the crime wave.
Omkar Naik

Hacking firms one click ahead of law - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...head-of-law-20090907-fecd.html

SOCIAL IT SYSTEMS IMPACT security privacy comm sys int systems politics business

shared by Omkar Naik on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • For $US100, the website provided Cioni, then living in northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL email account. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's password. And then the password of another girlfriend and the boyfriend's children.
  • Federal US law prohibited hacking into email, but without further illegal activity it was only a misdemeanour, said Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University.
  • All the services advertise that they will email a screenshot of the target's inbox or even send an email from the target's account as proof that they've cracked the password. The customer then sends payment. One service then responds with the script of a scene from a Shakespeare play, with the stolen password hidden in the copy.
anonymous

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan looks to robots to fill jobs - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 03 Sep 09 - Cached
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    Robots or Worker?
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    Robots or Worker?
Chalana Perera

BBC - Radio 4 - The Material World 24/10/2002 - 0 views

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ITGS PP search engines applications int systems globalization

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • nternet search engine. But the front pages of such sites as Google, Yahoo and Altavista are hiding hugely complex and refined systems for cataloguing and analysing millions of web pages
  • cheat the engines to come top of the search rankings.
  • find out how they were invented, how they work, and what the future holds for the programs that effectively control our access to the web.
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