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Exploiting Browser Information & Privacy - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • easy it was to exploit security loopholes
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      Easy exploitation leads to a lot of negative consequences and areas of impact include all sorts of education online, banking and financial reserves, businesses and mainstream market affairs, governmental and nongovernmental work and damage to personal information and biological/health data. This also harms intellectual property and ideas can be stolen online far easier than usual... reliability & security....
  • redirect traffic
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      Redirecting internet connection or regular user traffic could lead to a backlog of information on the web and a loss of personal details and this again as huge areas of impact including security, reliability and extended impact on finances and personal details & anonymity....this also affects systems in the social context with networks being hacked and codes and enscriptions being changed..
  • access and steal any information exchanged
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      Stealing information can also connect to software and the usage/creation tools of software and other application....communication systems are also greatly affected such as wire tapping systems
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West Africa looses and regains internet connection - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A cable fault that caused a major blackout
  • causing severe problems for its banking sector, government and mobile phone networks.
  • Services were severely disrupted or knocked out in Togo, Niger and Benin.
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  • Countries had to either reroute traffic overland or use expensive satellite links to maintain connectivity.
  • Nigeria was particularly badly hit because around 70% of its bandwidth is routed through neighbouring Benin.
  • SAT-3 cable lands in eight West African countries as it winds its way between Europe and South Africa.
  • by Suburban Telecom, was set up to bypass Nigeria's principal telecoms operator Nitel which runs the SAT-3 branch cable which lands in Nigeria.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | A life recorded in bits and bytes - 0 views

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shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
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  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
    • Bhumika Regmi
      Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09
       
      The plan is that one can include all of their information on to the programme like Gordon Bell. If the system is to fail or have some sort of error, one's privacy as well as security is at stake.
  • in the future we may all be able to offload our own memory into a comprehensive e-memory.
    • Bhumika Regmi
      Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09
       
      Applications
  • Bell, a principle researcher at Microsoft Research, has now written a book about how
    • Bhumika Regmi
      Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09
       
      education
  • "You basically have a great sense of freedom, because you are able to offload your bio-memory, and just commit all of the facts to an e-memory."
  • He said that the time is right for people to take e-memories seriously.
  • "I wouldn't have said this 20 years ago because of the difficulty and the cost to do it. The opportunity now is: it doesn't cost anything to do this."
  • For Mr Bell the benefit of his experiment is simple: it makes him feel better.
  • "I have a reasonably complicated life - so I wanted to find out just how many bits were coming and going, and how to deal with it."
  • His life is kept in a database for a project called MyLifeBits.
  • Elvira Russ on 21 Aug 09
     
    Gordon Bell has digitised his entire life, from shopping receipts to phone calls.
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Response to adolescent "sexting" (ars technica) Criterion A - 2 views

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shared by Maliha Rahman on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Maliha Rahman on 08 Dec 09
     
    This site has the article that i would be writing my portfolio about. Basically it talks about the different consequences and issues that arise due to sexting amongst teenagers.
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Illinois to ban texting while driving - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Illinois will become the 17th state on Thursday to ban texting while driving, a safety worry that has caught the attention of the federal government.
  • Compared with dialing, talking, listening or reaching for an electronic device, texting posed the greatest accident risk, the study found -- most likely due to the almost five seconds researchers found the drivers' eyes were off the roadway while texting
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BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But size is not everything and while alltheweb seemed lightning fast when I tried it, it did not appear to match the relevancy of a much smaller search engine now
  • find more of these highly rated gems and place them on the first or second page of search results, resulting in a better and more satisfying search experience."
  • the result of more than a decade of research into optimising search algorithms and architectures in a project initiated at the
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  • storage subsystems, operating in parallel to distribute user queries, search the catalogue and spider the Web.
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Academic Earth: Online Courses & Video Lectures - 2 views

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shared by Jeff Ratliff on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Jeff Ratliff on 26 Sep 09
     
    Scholars from leading universities lecture.
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