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Agree or disagree? all feb 10 soobin

Agree Agree to some extent. Internet freedom can be sacrificed only to a certain extent to fight piracy. Getting rid of internet freedom is basically the same thing as shutting out the communication lines of the world. The source of the reason why piracy is done is mainly due to the fact that people can't afford the items that they wish to use, or need to use, because they are ridiculously overpriced. These industries don't think that way because they want profit, however, if piracy was stopped, then no one will buy their products anyways because they still can't afford it. Popularity of the product will decrease, and the marketing of the product basically just failed. We need to compromise something so that piracy is decreased until there is no more. But suddenly stopping everything in one shot with something like SOPA isn't the way to go. Disagree I disagree. The internet should be free and open. We need to educate people not to download pirated software, movies and music. Doing so is the same as stealing from a shop, which most people would not do. Most people would be prepared to pay small amount for the right to download these things. If governments try to remove websites, it is the same as censorship which sometimes happens in dictatorships but should not happen in free societies. We really need freedom for the internet, so that we can easily share our own ideas, and thoughts. Unlike China, where people can't even talk gossip about governments, which is a basic human right. But China is still very famous for internet piracy. The United States should not have the power to prevent freedom of internet because they are not the world's police force. They should not have the power to dictate what happens in the rest of the world. That's why internet freedom should not be sacrificed.

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

Summary Rot Oct 4

* Customizability, highlighting parts required, bookmarking necessary 'pages' * Choice of chapters (relevant material) * Saves room in backpacks (less back strain), it's also lighter * Digital textbooks can't be lost, and if the E-reader is lost it can simply be replaced, the material is also digitized and can't be lost * Easy access and distribution, if everyone has their own E-reader, the material can simply be shared. * Students are more receptive to digitized learning material

Chae Min October 15th Brief Article Analysis

Omo GPS stunt opens doors for marketers 1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employment 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Buyers who buy box of detergent, and users of technologies and companies like Unilever, Google, Microsoft and Apple 3. Identify and describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. The main concern in this article is privacy. The article shows the detergent company detects their consumers who bought products with GPS for their event prize. It means, this intrusive behavior can find where you live where you go if you become the target. Besides, Google or other social networking site also makes use of people's personal information without their consent. This truly destroys your privacy, the right to decide how much information you will show to others. Furthermore, there is possibility that somebody gets your information from these companies and give harm to you, such as robbing your house 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. GPS- space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites social networking site- a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. 5. Describe the solution stated in the article or find a solution to the concern (issue) discussed in the article. One solution to stop these intruders in your life is enacting strict laws that companies can't detect where their customers live and get the consent if they use the information. Government should protect citizen's privacy from danger. Companies should get consent if they want to use customer's private information, and if customers don't want it(such as stoking customer's house) they must stop to intrude other's privacy.

Describe the IT terms. march 29 jenny

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1. Describe the IT terms. Patented - Granted and protected by rights. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state, national government, to the inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of the invention. http://www.whatspatented.com/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/ Cloud-based - software systems that based on the cloud (internet) Voice recognition system- computer technology that uses audio input to enter data instead of a keyboard input. Audio input is carried through a connected microphone. The Software is designed to recognize words or phrases with an internal database. The program would then match the audio signature of speech with corresponding data in the database. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-voice-recognition.htm Cloud-based voice recognition - The voice recognition software the is important to virtual reality since it provides a fairly natural and intuitive way of controlling the simulation while allowing the user's hands to remain free. The audio signals are converted to electrical signals, and then transformed into coding patterns to which meanings have been assigned. Automated voicemail - Automatic voicemail system that stores voice messages. Goog-411 - an automated information service that uses voice recognition to find information for what the caller is asking for on local businesses. This also has a feature to send the information to the caller's phone via text messaging. Goog-411 has provided a foundation for Voice Search (search Google by speaking instead of typing, Voice Input (filling in any text field on Andriod by speaking), and Voice Actions (Controlling Android phones with voice commands). http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2007/04/google-rolls-out-free-411-service.ars Android - Google's mobile operating system (a modified Linux Kernal system). This is the software stack for mobile devices that include the operating system as well as the middleware along with key apps. http://code.goo

summary march 29 nat

Summarise: Facebook is one of the biggest social network that is used by millions of users worldwide, but recently it has been getting complaints about its security and privacy. Therefore, Facebook is clarifying their policy on User Identification Data, because third party companies are not allowed to share the UIDs it collects to ad networks. Facebook modified its policy to forbid UIDs from leaving third-party applications and for such information to remain confidential. Ad networks had to sign a policy deal to make sure that they delete any information they obtain. Any who break this policy get placed on moratoriums, and will be observed, so that they don't do it again. Not only were the small developers effected, but also big companies such as Zynga were also caught transmitting some information.

article analysis march 25 soobin

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. -- Leisure, Business 2.Identify all ITGS terminology and phrases (IT and Social/Ethical) -- Twitter, Trojan, Facebook, E-mail spamming, Botnet, messaging service, social inbox, spam, e-mail, networks, online-security firms, junk e-mails, blacklisted addresses, output, domain names, .cn, internet registrars, fraud, web-hosting, cybercrime, hard drives. 3.Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. --Security is a concern in this article where users and spam is concerned. The security of the users' sensitive information is at risk when users click on spam links no matter from what source, from e-mails (which are decreasing now) to Twitter tweet links. By clicking onto these harmful links, users set free spam that can infiltrate the user's hard drive in search for sensitive information for example bank account numbers. 4.Describe the relationship of the main stakeholders to the IT system. ---The main stakeholder will be hackers and people who are using e-mail and social networking. The relationships between them are, normally hackers used spam mail to spend virus or hack their computer with Trojan horse, but as the email security develop hackers slowly moved to social network which is Facebook, and other many programs. They know that people are currently using social networking a lot and their privacy is open and they could easily get people's email too. Therefore by using Koobface, they could hack people's computer and information 5. Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical issue identified in question 3. -- The problem with the security is that the security of the users of their personal and public communications are at risk where spam is concerned. Spam is nowadays being planted in almost every corner of the internet, no matter where, in order to try and trick users into clicking on the harmful links in order to spread malware, such as Trojans. Spam is comm

Analysis Read 2 pages March 25 Azman

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business 2. Identify all ITGS terminology and phrases (IT and social/ethical). Botnets, worm, malware, 3. Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Security is the main issue in this article since it is dealing with worms, which infects and damage computer files. 4. Describe the relationship of the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholder, Facebook, is combating Koobface worm, which is, a malware (malicious software) to prevent it from infecting its users PC. 5. Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical issue identified in question 3. Koobface worm is a malware that could infect Facebook's users' computer, which is a security issue. It is estimated that the group earned more than $2 million from June 2009 to June 2010 by delivering the victims of its worm to unscrupulous marketers and makers of fake antivirus software. 6. Discuss at least one problem that relates to the impacts of the social/ethical issue. A Koobface attack starts with an invitation to watch a video and a message about updating the computer's Flash software. Clicking to get the update begins the download of Koobface, which gives criminals control of the computer, while the worm tries to spread itself further through the victim's social network contacts. This is a security breach to Facebook's users computer. When the criminals have control of the computer, they can do anything they want with it like, stealing personal information, etc. 7. Evaluate one solution that addresses the problem identified. Facebook need to step up their security for their users safety. To halt Koobface, Facebook uses algorithms that can detect suspicious posts and hijacked accounts, looking for unusual behavior like log-ins from odd places and a surge in messages sent. Facebook also keeps a blacklist of malicious Web links to prevent them from being shared on the site. When Koobface posts find a

Explain what the cyber security plan is designed to do. Why is this a critical issue? May 17 alec

It is designed to stop the U.S.A. from being attacked cyberly like from hackers, criminals, and spies. It is a critical issue because if someone hacked the united states then they would be able yo launch missiles and begin a war that never should have been started also they could gain access to information that should be secret and not shared with the world.

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.

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brief april 26 az

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employment 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Gucci, employees 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Security 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Virtual private network- a network that is constructed by using public wires to connect nodes. For example, there are a number of systems that enable you to create networks using the Internetas the medium for transporting data. These systems use encryption and othersecurity mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and that the data cannot be intercepted. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VPN.html Hacking- the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator's original purpose. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-computer-hacking.htm Virtual servers- a Web server, that shares computer resources with other virtual servers. Instead of requiring a separate computer for each server, dozens of virtual servers can co-reside on the same computer. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/virtual_server.html E-mail Server - A computer server that acts as the supplier and sender of e-mails in the network. Ecommerce - Electronic commerce, business to sell and buy online electronically. Identity Theft - The stealing of and ID, or impersonating a fake person. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Gucci needs to be stricter to their employees. They need to closely monitor anyone that can access the company's financial system and any vital part. By doing so, employees would not even think of hacking the system. Moreover, educating their workers into not being tricked to activate any other fraud employee accounts. Also, improving the authorization system of employees to access information with biometrics may be helpful to increase the security of their data and network system.