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Google accuses China of interfering with Gmail email system | Technology | The Guardian - 4 views

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    What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? Describe LinkedIn. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? What are the 7 International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles? Explain the major criticism of this system (International...)? Explain "self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement". Explain "China's political elite have a love hate relationship with the internet". march 25 woo
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    1. What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? Google says that Chinese customers and advertisers have increasingly been complaining about their Gmail service in the past month. Attempts by users to send messages, mark messages as unread and use other services have generated problems for Gmail customers. Google shows potential signs that the Chinese government is increasing their censorship by revealing that Gmail's e-mailing system features have been disrupted for Gmail users as well as other Gmail interfaces such as sending e-mails. Google also reveals that the users who filed in these complaints are mostly potential threats to the Chinese government such as the activist accounts also with financial, technology, media and chemical companies users' accounts. Thus, even though there is no concrete evidence, there are signs that are most likely to be linked to the Chinese government. 2. How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? The move follows extensive attempts by the Chinese authorities to crack down on the Jasmine revolution, an online dissident movement inspired by events in the Middle East. The censorship was supposed to prevent people from getting too much information but instead, this can provoke people to go against the government since people are aware that they have been treated unfairly. 3. Describe LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection. 4. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? LinkedIn is business-social networking and Chinese can use this site as the means of evoking opposition against the government. China's president Hu Jint
anonymous

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Arrested in London: Is it a Conspiracy? - 4 views

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    High cholesterol milk Feb 8 Who is Julian? What is wikileaks? Describe cyber attacks. How did politics impact wikileaks? How did wikileaks fight back?
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     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)
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    1.5 Intellectual property 1.9 Policies 2.6 Politics and government 3.5 Personal and public communications
In Hee Jang

FinSpy Software Is Tracking Political Dissidents - 2 views

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    SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.
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    Describe different ways of this type of software spying on people
anonymous

Twitter Is a Critical Tool in Republican Campaigns - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    How is Twitter used? How effective is it? m12 feb 2 alec
anonymous

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/WikiLeaks-Hit-With-DoS-Attack-Before-Documents-Leaked... - 9 views

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    brief dec 9 cream
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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
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    1.3 Privacy and anonymity 2.6 Politics and government 3.5 Personal and public communications
anonymous

Libya turns off the Internet and the Massacres begin | ZDNet - 3 views

  • Now, though, realizing that they could no longer hide their abuses from a world a Twitter tweet away, the new model autocracies, such as Libya and Bahrain have realized that they need to cut their Internet links before bringing out the guns.
  • As in Bahrain, Libya’s Internet is essentially owned and controlled by the government through a telecommunication company Libya Telecom & Technology
  • Mobile phone services in Libya are also under the control of the government. So far though the government doesn’t seem to have cut international phone services off-perhaps because that’s harder to do without cutting off local telephone service.
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  • “Should Libya block Internet traffic, as Egypt did, it will not affect http://bit.ly or any .ly domain.”
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    Brief analysis march 1 natsuno
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    Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Politics and government Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Libyan government, Libyan citizens, Libyan telecommunication company (Libya Telcom & Technology) 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Surveillance 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Internet : a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange Bit.ly : URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address. Top level domain : A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). It is hard to suggest a solution basically because it is the government's decision to shut down the internet. Therefore the only way to solve this issue is to discourage dictatorship in Libya. Main reason for the shut down of the internet was the cooperation of Libya Telecom & Technology which is owned by the dictator's son.
anonymous

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/20/arab-revolts-another-good-week-for-social-media-a-bad... - 1 views

  • The protests have been spurred by extensive use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are seeing their moment in the sun as the tools of revolution
  • They’re unleashing movements for peace, democracy and freedom in a region of the world that seemed like it was content to live without them
  • It shows that the power of the network effect can work in political revolutions just as it does in other parts of our lives. Social media has become like the lever that opens the doors that stand in the way of freedom
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  • “triumphalism about the recent events in the Middle East is premature. The contest is still in its early stages, and the new age of internet-driven democratization will endure only if we learn to counter the sophisticated measures now being developed to quash it
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    To what extent do you think social media opens the door to freedom? march 1
anonymous

Unmanned aerial warfare: Flight of the drones | The Economist - 7 views

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    Summarize m12 nov 2 az
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    On September 30th, a missile strike launched from a UAV killed Anwar al-Awlaki, al-Qaeda's most effective propagandist. This was an example of how the UAV are changing today's combat. These babies are equipped with sophisticated sensors and carry Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs. There may not be a man in the cockpit, but each Reaper UAV requires more than 180 people to keep it flying. A pilot is always at the controls from a ground control unit and another officer operates its sensors and cameras. UAV have become the weapon of choice over the past decade. Theres not a month that passes without reports that an al-Qaeda or Taliban leader has been killed by UAVs. There are more hours flown by America's UAS than by its manned fighter jets and more pilots are being trained to fly them than their manned equivalents. The frequency of drone stikes on terrorists in Pakistan has rose from one every 40 days to one every four days under Obama's admin. The UAV's ability to loiter for hours, minutely observe human activities while transmitting full motion video to its ground crews and can strike with pinpoint accuracy has made it the essential weapon in America's war on terrorism. Drones come in many different shapes and sizes. Predators and Reapers are the larger and more popular ones. Some are micro sized devices that imitate a bird used for eavesdropping or a mid sized plane that can be hand launched by soldiers to tell them what is happening over the hill. The medium sized UAVs would be able to defend airspace against enemy intrusion to attacking enemy air defenses. The largest UAV would operate as airborne warning and control, aerial refueling tankers, lift transports and long range bombers. The next generation of drones will also have AI, which allows them to shoot to kill. The UAS are used for "dull, dirty, dangerous, difficult or different" tasks. These tasks include surveillance missions requiring time and a degree of persistence that crews of
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    manned aircraft couldn't provide. Also, UAS could be used to fly in to observe or take samples after a chemical or biological attack. Any missions too dangerous for manned aircraft will be taken care of by the UAV. UAV have other advantages over manned aircraft as they have more detailed information about their targets, their strikes are more accurate and cause fewer civilian casualties. They are also cheaper and smaller. Since they have no pilot, the space could be used for fuel and thus they can fly much longer than manned aircraft. Without the need to accommodate crew, drone can be given radar-cheating stealthy shapes and can maneuver better. There are however a problem afflicting the drones as they depend on two-way satellite communications. If the datalink is broken the remote pilot will lose control of the aircraft. For missions requiring constant oversight, the vulnerability to electronic jamming or a direct attack on a communications satellite is a huge problem. Another problem is that the dones has a slight delay between the remote pilot and the aircraft. To reduce latency, small, solar, or laser powered ultra long endurance drones can form a chain in the sky along which satellite signals can be bounced. To reduce the workload on pilots, big UAV can take off and land automatically. The US Air Force plans to have a pilot operating up to four drones at a time. Civil liberty advocacy groups have raised concerns about targeted killings by drones. Bus as long as a UAS pilot can trust data from remote sensors, he or she should be able to make a proper assessment the same ways as the pilot of a manned aircraft. UAS pilot will be in a better position to do so since he or she will have more time to assess the situation accurately and not be exhausted b the physical battering of flying a jet.
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    Allowing the UAV to fire a weapon based entirely on its own data analysis raises a lot of ethical problems. Using UAV to kill enemies thousands of miles away is like a cowardly action of a bully sheltering behind superior technology. There are fears that UAS will lower the political threshold for fighting and an essential of restraint will be removed. Drones make leaders fonder of war.
anonymous

US Report Blasts China, Russia for Cybercrime - ABC News - 15 views

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    Identify the issue and scenario. Describe 3 incidents of cyberattacks by China. List some of the most desired data. Describe how the US is responding to these cyberthreats. all nov 10 kuni
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    Identify the issue and scenario. China and Russia have been accused of cyber espionage, stealing technological and commercial information from The USA and its Allies. Describe 3 incidents of cyberattacks by China. 1. Google allege that intellectual property was stolen in a computer attack that also targeted at least 20 other large companies. And earlier this year Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said it believes hackers in China broke into the Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists. 2. Mandiant reported that data was stolen from a Fortune 500 manufacturing company during business negotiations when the company was trying to buy a Chinese company. 3. McAfee traced an intrusion to an Internet protocol address in China and said intruders took data from global oil, energy and petrochemical companies. List some of the most desired data. Data from global oil, energy and petrochemical companies, Fortune 500 manufacturing company, U.S. Government officials, and military's gmail accounts. Describe how the US is responding to these cyberthreats. The Pentagon has begun a pilot program that is working with a group of defense contractors to help detect and block cyberattacks. They have called for greater communication about cyberthreats among the government, intelligence agencies and the private sector.
Azman Fadhilah

Bangkok Post : The rise of the digital spies - 1 views

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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employment, Politics and Government 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Politicians, Large Business owners, Victims 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article Surveillance / Privacy 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The main IT system in this situation is the use of the evolving hardware that is customized to best fit the various situations that need to infiltrate a certain amount of security. The new spy devices today are integrated into everyday devices such as pens and glasses so that it is hard to track and sensor while going through security checks. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Having the government and users agree to sign contracts which only allow certain amounts of digital spy equipment to be produced, and while shipment, if any equipment was found to be not authorized and legitimate to pay a large amount of fine to prevent further disuse of the equipment. Since most of the devices require some sort of signaling in order to spy, having new security checks based on lens reflection as well as machine signal waves can increase security because it would be easier to sensor such devices.
anonymous

Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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    Go to each link in the article and describe it. march 3 Nat
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    Facebook : It is the world's largest social network site, which was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It has become a very developed source on the internet, where users can like, share, comment on something without leaving the web page that they were at. There are approximately 500 million users worldwide. Twitter : Twitter is a social networking site that was started up by a group of 10 people called Obvious, and it has become popular for its simplicity of "micro-blogging" where a twitterer or tweeter sends short messages called tweets, within 140 characters, and are shared with people that follow you, and to the public. Pew Research Center- It is a research center for the people and the press, and it is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues. Huffington post : Huffington post is a news website that began in 2005, and it has become the most heavily visited news web sites in the country. BlogHer : is a group blog, online community, and refers to an annual blogging conference for woman.  Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins founded BlogHer in 2005 in response to the question, "Where are all the women bloggers?" Tumblr : Tumblr was founded in 2007 by David Krap, and it is a social networking site that allows user to post text, images, videos ,links, quotes and audio, which can be reblogged by other users who follow your blog. Google : Google was founded in 1998, and is known as the world's most popular internet search engine. Google hosts and develops a number of internet-based services and products,and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program, which has helped them earn huge profits for their company. LiveJournal : LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or a diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was desig
anonymous

BBC News - Football tweets offer insight into harnessing Twitter - 2 views

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

BBC News - GlobalSign stops secure certificates after hack claim - 3 views

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    Explain what it means to stop secure certificates and why it was done. M12 sept 13 Kuni
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    To stop secure certificates means to temporarily stop issuing authentication certificates to secure websites because the certificates have been compromised meaning that people's personal confidential information has been stolen. It was done to investigate the claims of a hacker that he had issued false certificates. It was suggested that personal emails in Iran and government emails in Holland had been compromised, probably for political reasons.
anonymous

BBC News - Rise in UK requests for Google content removal - 8 views

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