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YooJin Jung

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tough cure for China web addicts - 0 views

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SEP3-BM1 SOCIAL IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT health education ITGS people control

shared by YooJin Jung on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The mostly male youngsters at this centre all have the same problem - they are addicted to the internet.
  • elling, this is where they hope to be cured.
  • And through a tough programme of physical exercise, medication and couns elling, this is where they hope to be cured. There has been a lot of interest in these boot camps over recent weeks after two teenagers were beaten up at two separate camps in China. One died, the other was seriously injured.
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  • The patients - all teenagers or in their 20s - are sent to the centre because their parents believe they spend too much time on the internet.
Chalana Perera

Controlling editing on Wikipedia Pages - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • site will require that revisions to pages about living people and some organisations be approved by an editor.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      Social : security, control, reliability
  • The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: communication (internet)
  • If a page has a number of controversial edits or is repeatedly vandalised, editors can lock a page, so that it cannot be edited by everyone.
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  • The two-month trial,
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact : politics&government
Eunice Vincent

Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought - 0 views

www.greenercomputing.com/...reuse-more-electronics-thought

SOCIAL globalization equality IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "At least 85 percent of discarded computers imported to Peru are reused, as opposed to going directly to recycling. [... Thus,] the image of the trade in e-waste as mainly being about dumping unusable junk is, at least for Peru, inaccurate."
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social: Globalization
  • "highly dynamic flow [that] reuses and recycles almost every part and material found in a computer,"
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 31 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: basics
  • that it is possible to stop the environmentally damaging practices without diluting or eliminating informal dismantling and collection. This informal reuse and recycling sector is valuable for generating employment in the country and in making computing technology more accessible to low-income families and small businesses, the paper contends.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 31 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT: business, science&the environment
Eunice Vincent

The Net closes in on internet piracy - 0 views

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shared by Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Seven million people could be criminalised under government plans to crack down on internet piracy,
    • Eunice Vincent
      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.
Chalana Perera

Facebook privacy lawsuit & child protection - 1 views

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SOCIAL privacy people control policies IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Chalana Perera on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Control & Privacy/Anonymity
  • the minor's medical information may have been stored
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS --> Comm. Systems/ SOCIAL --> Privacy & Control
  • Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Equality
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  • of an 11-year-old child because he disclosed that he had swine flu
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      IMPACT --> Health / SOCIAL --> Privacy & Anonymity
  • Like all reputable social networking sites, Facebook complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by not allowing children under 13 to have accounts (COPPA does make provisions for accounts for children under 13 but imposes certain conditions including parental consent). The only way for this young man to obtain a Facebook account would be to lie about his date of birth.
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Policies
  • Once on Facebook, anything a person posts can, by default, be seen only by his friends or people in his network. If Xavier's profile was available to additional people, it was because he changed his default privacy settings.
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --.> Privacy & Control
Chalana Perera

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.
Chalana Perera

Large-scale Credit Card Fraud - 0 views

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shared by Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • identity theft
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 29 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL --> Privacy, Control & Security
  • internet and telephone transactions
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      concerns/impacts networking systems but also social issues regarding privacy, loss of information and security & anonymity.
  • payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain.
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  • This is a fairly common way that fraudsters try to gain access to consumers' card details.
  • Once they find a weakness, they insert a specially designed code into the network that allows them to access card details.
  • "a pretty standard way" for fraudsters to try to access personal data.
  • any victim of fraud would "always be refunded in full".
  • corporate victims included Heartland Payment Systems - a card payment processor - convenience store 7-Eleven and Hannaford Brothers, a supermarket chain, t
  • ckers, is already in custody on separate charges of hacking into the computer systems
  • that online, telephone and mail order fraud were on the increase, along with fraud committed abroad
  • anonymous on 18 Aug 09
     
    Great article Chalana. :)
Farah Alam

Slashdot IT Story | Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD - 0 views

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shared by Farah Alam on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The discs have been showing up at credit unions around the country recently, a throwback to the days when viruses and Trojans were distributed via floppy disk.
  • the infected CDs
  • rather than an actual attack.
Zaheen Ahmad

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Pirates look forward to business - 0 views

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shared by Zaheen Ahmad on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact).
  • "They have advertising on their sites and, as those sites attract more eyeballs, they are getting more advertising income.
  • Isohunt, Mininova and The Pirate Bay.
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  • - links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.
  • Peer-to-peer (p2p) software connects users to one another and shares files through means such as so-called bit torrent, which chops up files into manageable bits.
  • No copyright content is hosted on the websites themselves - they simply do the indexing of the available content.
  • damages to entertainment companies such as Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers, EMI and Sony Music Entertainment.
  • Zaheen Ahmad on 27 Aug 09
     
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