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brief analysis march 3 Jen

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1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. IT users, mainly the ones who access social networking sites through mobile devices smart phone/tablet users, the business companies. 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. The digital Divide and the Equality of Access / Globalization and Cultural Diversity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The tablets that offer internet as well as phone features play an important role in making the system work. The tablets offer a larger screen for the access compared to mobile phones, and it is challenging business companies and sites to remake their site into different various resolutions to fit all the new screen sizes. This affects the software of the program as well as the use of internet to connect to these sites. These sites offer personal and public communications through sites like Facebook. Social Networking - the grouping of individuals who have joined together to form a virtual community or neighborhood subdivision. Smart Phone: the "smart" mobile device that offers more advanced connectivity than the normal contemporary feature phone. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Users around Thailand are now being more connected online besides the rural areas where cable TV have a larger impact. Having governmental or commercial groups to try and build signal towers as well as spread the awareness of the use of mobile phones and decreases who uses the internet, and who doesn't.

How does Facebook use the information people share to make money? Describe the issues that Facebook should address. all Dec 6 cream

How does Facebook use the information people share to make money? Facebook uses the information people share to make money by using the data to give to advertising companies, which in turn, pay Facebook for the data they receive so that they can target Facebook users with more individualized advertising. The advertising business can choose who they want ads to be shown to, customized to be relevant to the person's personal interests and likes. The more ads that users see on Facebook, the more money Facebook earns from the advertising company. Therefore, the exposure of the information people share to advertising companies, in order to place these advertisements, earn them money. Describe the issues that Facebook should address. Issues that Facebook should address include: Privacy - The privacy of users' and their data should be kept private, and the issue needs to be addressed where other online companies target the user data, where the user clicks to see pages, and their online activity even though the user may not be online. Reliability - The reliability of Facebook's security system should also be addressed. Facebook needs to address how users are aware or unaware of how their data is being shared through their friends' apps, or shared to advertising companies. Also, users would need to be reassured that their data isn't distributed to other third party companies.

Presentation: Explain the issue of mobile security. Provide a detailed explanation of how to provide mobile security. nov 14 champ az

Mobile devices can be occupied by malware that are no longer only exist in the computer. With the growing population of smart phones, it also increases chance of getting viruses, worm, or Trojan. These viruses can invade by number in fonts, SMS or MMS messaging, downloadable content, public Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connections. Mobile malware can cause serious problems. They can drain your phone's battery very fast, delete your important information such as contacts or messages, and also it can destroy your phone's function completely. The worst thing it could do is to display your personal images online. How to provide mobile security? Use anti-virus software You can keep your mobile phone secured by using mobile security software such as Kaspersky Mobile Security. This software is a complete protection that will keep away malwares and block threatening network connections. It also has many features such as control of private contacts and phone numbers, blocking accession of other people, and an mobile phone locator application in case it get lost or stolen. Works Cited http://www.cellphonebeat.com/10-security-software-smart-phone.html http://linestechnology.blogspot.com/2011/06/overcoming-mobile-virus.html http://expertitgurus.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html

summary all nov 28 alec

BRUSSLES can't block users from downloading illegally because that would breach the EU rules. SABAM asked the court in Belgian to force scarlet to install a device to prevent users from downloading copyrighted work. Scarlet then had to install the device. The EU made a statement that that internet providers should have to install a filtering system. The ruling of that made the BEUC (consumer organization) get authorities thinking of a fairer way to provide legal downloads. Monique Goyens said that there is no point in trying to catch individual people for file sharing because there are so many it would be impossible to stop. EU - European Union SABAM - Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers BEUC - European Union Consumers Organisation

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WikiLeaks Hit with DoS Attack Before Documents Leaked 1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Politics and Employment 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. WikiLeaks, Government, users 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article Privacy 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Wikileaks is simply a website that spread the hidden news to the public so it is like a non-profit website. They spread the news throughout the Internet. WikiLeaks knew and predicted such DoS attacks, they have been switching various IP address in order to keep running the website. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Users need to use encryption for preventing hackers. Using secure private network in order to protect your private network or make it even more authorized. Using firewall to protect your computer form unauthorized access

1.3 Privacy and anonymity 2.6 Politics and government 3.5 Personal and public communications

High cholesterol milk Feb 8 Who is Julian? What is wikileaks? Describe cyber attacks. How did politics impact wikileaks? How did wikileaks fight back?

 Who is Julian? - Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and internet activist. He is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open government.  What is WikiLeaks? - WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submission of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks.  Describe cyber attacks - A cyber attack is an attempt to undermine or compromise the function of a computer based system or attempt to track the online movements of individuals without their permission. Attacks of this type may be undetectable to the end user or network administrator, or lead to such a total disruption of the network that none of the users can perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.  How did politics impact WikiLeaks? - Protect citizens from knowing the secrets about politics - They keep find track on information -  How did WikiLeaks fight back? - Protesting way back Julian being treated (Letting attacks to each other)

1.5 Intellectual property 1.9 Policies 2.6 Politics and government 3.5 Personal and public communications

Brief Aug 24 Az

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Government 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Apple, Google, iOS device users 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Privacy, Anonymity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. iPhone smartphone - Apple's iPhone smartphone that includes various smart features such as receiving e-mail, and application, more than just the average phone. Location recognition - the feature on the iPhone that allows the users to be recognized by their location near wifi hubs. Apple was ordered to encrypt location data of people using iPhones to address privacy concerns but the users claim that the device secretly collected information of the users' whereabouts. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). A solution to the privacy issue would be for users to turn off the location-recognition features on their iPhones so that Apple doesn't have access to your phone. Apple needs to be more careful with their data collection process, as well as encrypting the data so there is no breach of privacy of its users, or completely get rid of the whole system itself.

Who is reading our tweets? Interesting info. m12 october 10 jenny

Who is reading our tweets? Sociologists at Cornell University, as well as research teams around the world are ready our tweets to see the change in biological patterns in the days of the week, as well as the hours of the day.

How is twitter used as a barometer? Explain the potential uses of networks as barometers? m12 october 10 jenny

How is twitter used as a barometer? Twitter is used as a barometer because of its users' tweets that update happening events in real time, and can be used to know the change of events in real time. (From this article's example, they monitor users' tweets at major events during a football game (touch downs, scoring). Because of its live feeds, it is up to date all the time, and can have stacks of updates within seconds. Explain the potential uses of networks as barometers. Potential uses include anything with a large audience, televised media like reality shows, political debates, localized applications such as storm news updates, an electricity black out etc. Users will be able to know the changes of what's happening in real time from their mobile devices that supports viewing tweets as barometers.

brief all oct 10 nat

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Home, business 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Facebook, Websesnse, Facebook users, Malicious web developers 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Reliability 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. URL: llows all resources on the internet to be located in a uniform manner. A URL is a website address that has all the pertinent information for finding the exact location attached to it. (E.g.WWW.facebook.com) Database-driven: Web pages that store information in their database. Phishing: Tricking Internet users into providing personal data for malicious or fraudulent use.

Summary m12 oct 27 soo

Currently many people are using social networking to express their thoughts and emotions. The most well known social networkings are Facebook and Twitter. Many people in the world post their status, most posts are not significant but some have valuable information. This posts are representing nation's mood. So some companies like DataSift and Gnip are using Twitter as data plaforms. These companies are colleting all the information from the Twitter. When people updates their status, these companies collect all the information from the status which contains some feedback about companies' products. This brings good effects to company however, others raised question of privacy concerns. The companies are not ask and get information to individuals, most of the users raised question about individual privacy.

Explain: -exploitive nature of the existing paradigm -difference between Facebook and Unthink Summarize the TechCrunch article. all nov 1 avik

Unthink is a brand new social networking site where you can customize anything you want however way we want it to be. There are no arbitrary changes that will happen. It also aims to expose all the "evils" of Facebook and other social networking sites, since they have access and can use our information as and when they'd like. Unthink has branded itself as the 'anti-Facebook' and has gotten an amazing response on the day of its inauguration. Unthink is still in its beta stages. There are a few differences: - * Unthink allows you to make changes to your privacy settings, which are better compared to Facebook. There are no arbitrary changes that will happen on Unthink. * Unthink also allows for migration of accounts from an existing Facebook account. * We can also isolate the advertisements and group them accordingly as we want. Our interest and liking of particular brands may also be rewarded with discounts and offers.

Describe 3 examples of legitamate cases for removal. all oct 31 kuni

i. Critical Politician movement: Google remove 236 communities and profiles from social network in India after the government complained that they were critical of a local politician. ii. Privacy violation: The users in Turkey were restricted from being able to see material about the private lives of political officials. iii. Local law violation: There was a problem that in Thailand, where someone uploads the video that insulted Thailand's monarchy, which was illegal under local laws. This caused the user in Thailand to ban YouTube site for a year.