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Feb 4 Why shouldn't America allow a kill switch? Az

Because shutting down the internet means shutting down their ability to communicate freely which is inhumane, corrupt, and immoral. The impact on the economy alone would be reason to never implement such measure.

This article starts with issue of one woman losing her iPhone, which was stolen by someone who lives 20 km away from her. Since there is a app called Track my iPhone, she used this app to go after the thieve and asked for her iPhone back. Not only her who had been finding the thief herself but lots of people are doing it to avoid conflict with the police. This is causing a concern with the police officer because of the increase in phone robbery in many places and if these are gang member, it can cause life to be lost. Even though the police had devoted more resources to combat the theft, but accessibility of police is quite low. Therefore, people usually like to take action alone neglecting the danger that they might find. Therefore, police came up with further and better solution called 'kill switch'. Which automatically make your phone unavailable and unattractive to the thieves.

What is Kill switch? How is it beneficial to protect your personal information on your phone?

Feb 8 Ginnie What did people use when the net was down?

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The people used voice telephone to communicate with each other while the net was down. Amateur radio channels and virtual private networks and proxies were provided and used by Egyptian activists in order to communicate with each other.

What were the chinks in the blackout? What are problems with cutting national and international cables? Explain the possible financial impact of blackouts. How can a blackout backfire? march 11 kuni

What were the chinks in the blackout? Many people abroad offered the Egyptians internet though the terrestrial phone system, which was basically a dial-up system. Moreover, Google and Twitter launched a service where users can voicemail their tweets, which is then converted into text, to publish their tweets online. What are problems with cutting national and international cables? It will cost a lot in budget and maybe some damage too, because it is complex and expensive to build and run a kill switch. Explain the possible financial impact of blackouts. The financial, impacts the finance of the blackouts are that money transactions and deposits are affected by the suddenly cut line, which may cause problems to both local individuals as well as large companies that are trying to seal a business deal between each other. An intergovernmental think-tank in paris predicts that the cost of damage in Egypt for its network shutdowns was around $90million. Also, other international countries that are trying to invest in the country that has a blackout are most likely to rethink their decision, and take their investing plans to another more stable country. This affects the country as the whole since they will be losing investors in their country. This would also affect the economy as rates change, the amount of people (tourists) flowing in and out of the country including business groups. How can a blackout backfire? A blackout can backfire its government because it can cause the citizens to view the government's act in a bad way. Cutting of connections will people will stop trusting its government, and would want to overthrow their leader/government. Moreover, This is somewhat a loss for the government. They wouldn't want their citizens to go up against them. Thus, citizens play a major role on how a blackout can backfire. The cutting internet doesn't help at all.

Describe NoSQL and its purpose. Explain how it is used differently than MySQL. M12 jan30 az

Describe NoSQL and its purpose. NoSQL is a highly scalable and reliable non-relational databases designed to maintain high performance and to be highly cost efficient for workloads of any scale, from the smallest to the largest internet-scale applications. It is also used to build a new kind of database for "unstructured" information that comes spilling off the Internet with each passing second. It is capable of handling large amounts of data du to the fact that they use flash storage rather than traditional spinning disks. These solid-state drives can provide single-digit millisecond response times. Explain how it is used differently than MySQL. MySQL database is a relational database that stores data in neat rows and columns, and it's designed to run on a single machine, while NoSQL database can store data in a more flexible way and is designed to scale across a very large number of machines. "SQL databases are like automatic transmission and NoSQL databases are like manual transmission. Once you switch to NoSQL, you become responsible for a lot of work that the system takes care of automatically in a relational database system. Similar to what happens when you pick manual over automatic transmission. Secondly, NoSQL allows you to eke more performance out of the system by eliminating a lot of integrity checks done by relational databases from the database tier. Again, this is similar to how you can get more performance out of your car by driving a manual transmission versus an automatic transmission vehicle." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2559411/sql-mysql-vs-nosql-couchdb

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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

Sue Describe BGP. How does the BGP affect ISPs? Feb 4

 Describe BGP - BGP is the border gateway protocol, the protocol at the core of the internet's routing mechanism. BGP performs interdomain routing in Transmission-Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networks. BGP is an exterior gateway protocol (EGP), which means that it performs routing between multiple autonomous systems or domains and exchanges routing and reachability information with other BGP systems. - Control the pathways  How does the BGP affect ISPs? - BGP glues all ISPs and their large customers together to form the Internet. Besides traditional routing, BGP also supports routing for new IP services such as Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network (MPLS VPN). - Without BGP information provided by Egyptian networks, the rest of the world has no way to connect with the country's ISPs or its Web sites. Nor do its citizens have a way to reach sites or services beyond its boundaries. - "The Egyptian government has instructed the ISPs whether state owned or sate licensed, to withdraw their BGP announcements that tell other routers how to reach those ISPs" -