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Ethics in Computing - 3 views

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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.
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BBC News - Secret net Tor asks users to sign up to cloud services - 3 views

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    presentation az nov 28
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Why Did Newspapers Take So Long to Copy Groupon? - BusinessWeek - 3 views

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    brief analysis Make sure to describe major terms, like groupon and livingsocial. march 7 woo
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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, E-commerce 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Online Newspaper companies, newspaper subscribers 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Globalization 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. - Groupon: a deal-of-the-day website that is localized to major geographic markets worldwide. Launched in November 2008, the first market for Groupon was Chicago. - LivingSocial: an international social buying company based in Washington, D.C. They specialize in daily deals offered in cities across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe and Australia. - TimeLiimited: is a service just like Groupon, which emails its readers on special offers for travel and living terms The New York Times newspapers are going to start using the internet, and connection of the companies to its subscribers for a fee to their advantage, even though there is a slim chance now. It is the spread of public communication of news, the latest trends, and discounts to events and merchandise while connecting directly to personal communication means of its subscribers (through their e-mails). 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Straightforward copying Groupon is not the answer for the success online. The New York times might be able to have a chance against Groupon and LivingSocial, but these two big groups have already topped the business of connecting companies with deals to its customers and subscribers for a fee. The companies should be able to manage connection between merchants and their customers. The New York Times would have to come up with special deals that appeal to users, such as a subscription discount, so on, and so forth to grab customers' attention from Goupon and LivingSocial to the New York Time's TimesLimited. The process involves sending people e-mail offers and discounts from companies and service providers, then charging a fee for
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Congressmen, Facebook go back and forth over personal data sharing - 3 views

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    brief analysis march 7 kuni
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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. The area of impact is that personal information about people using a site such as Facebook is being made available to businesses. Even with the safeguards and agreements put in place to stop spammers there have already been cases of misuse of information. This is particularly worrying if personal information about children and young people is being made available. 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholders are the person who uses the Facebook, and they are having the businesses by the games and the system on making money from them. They use the work on creating the privacy issues 3. Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. The ITGS social/ethical concern is that there are problem on the information that can be shared on the third parties, which will have problem on the privacy issues where you could get stolen your information. 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. App- Protocols seen by user programs, such as email and the web API- is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software, similar to the way a user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. ... 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Facebook have strict policy on collection regarding the companies collecting information from users as well as a harsher punishment instead of just a 6 month suspension. The change of policies should be notified to every users and the team should ask for the agreement of general users.
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IBM's Watson's ability to converse is a huge advance for AI research - Computerworld - 3 views

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    Define: Artificial intelligence Turing test Why is a Jeopardy-playing computer considered such a huge advance in AI. Kuni Feb 22
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    Define: Artificial intelligence- the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; "workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots" Turing test- The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. Why is a Jeopardy-playing computer considered such a huge advance in AI? Because Jeopardy represents a next generation on AI that advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language processing that overcome the formidable challenge of conveying the same information in many different ways. The supercomputer owes that significance to its ability to deliver more than calculations and documents. This kind of ability makes this machine more equipped than any before it to systematize "thoughts" and converse.
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Home - The home of Spybot-S&D! - 3 views

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    Azman - Is this any good?
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    I don't think so. The site looks very unprofessional and it doesn't look legitimate at all. A company that is not well known rates most of the awards that they won. It could be pretty good software but since it's free, there will be downsides and restrictions to it; and users need to be careful when installing freeware.
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Egypt's Internet Block Aims at Social Media - PCWorld - 3 views

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    aNt Feb 4 Why did Egypt block the internet? How has the internet supported civil disobedience? What does it mean when the US says social media is a fundamental right?
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    Why did Egypt block the internet? To shut down communications within the people of Egypt to stop them from organizing protests against the government using social networks as a tool of communication. How has the internet supported civil disobedience? Many of the protests were organised with the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, which helped everyone to organise the protest with people they didn't know. What does it mean when the US says social media is a fundamental right? US is saying that social media is a fundamental right, therefore should not be blocked or shut down, because it has become an important source of communication, and people have the right to know what's going on in the world.
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http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/48941/obama-kill-switch-what-if-theres-a-war-in-america/ - 3 views

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    Feb 4 Why shouldn't America allow a kill switch? Az
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    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.
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Wolverton: Customers had more faith in Sony than it deserved - San Jose Mercury News - 3 views

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    Are any corporate databases and networks safe? Should consumers be wary about providing personal data online? How valuable is data stored online? May 11 soo
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    Are any corporate databases and networks safe? According to the article, they mentioned that no corporation databases are not completely safe and secure enough to protect personal information. There are too much false which makes network perfectly safe. It is very large storage and contains a lot of personal information. If the network is too big, they can't manage the network well and all the weaknesses will occur. The hackers will aim to hack the corporate databases because it has a lot of information therefore; it is not actually very safe. Should consumers be wary about providing personal data online? Yes, consumers should be wary about providing personal data online, because all services that store the online data are all under risk of being hacked, and the data compromised. Once the sensitive information is compromised, the user is more vulnerable to scam attacks through e-mails, as well as have their bank accounts or other user accounts online hacked. consumers should be a warning to be wary about providing personal data online because no corporate networks are frequently attacked by hackers and no matter how diligently their administrators work to protect them or how many protections are put n place, no network is perfectly secure. Even Sony' security systems are not perfect at all. Therefore, people have to be wary about providing personal data online How valuable is data stored online? Data stored online is very valuable, especially sensitive information such as ID numbers and bank/credit card numbers. Other personal data such as names, passwords, and security question answers are useful for hackers, and can be easily used for impersonation on other sites to hack into user accounts for further bad intentions.
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    1. ITGS 2. Security 3. Sony 4. Database 5. Network 6. Digital net networking
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IPhone Users in South Korea Sue Apple for Collecting Data Without Consent - Bloomberg - 3 views

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    Brief Aug 24 Az
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    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.
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Book Review - The Net Delusion - By Evgeny Morozov - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • the ­asocial pursuit of profit is what drives social media
  • more capricious technology” than radio or television
  • capricious technology” than radio or television. Neither radio nor TV has “keyword-based filtering,” which allows regimes to use URLs and text to identify and suppress dangerous Web sites, or, like marketers, to collect information on the people who visit them
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  • “Technology changes all the time,” he writes, “human nature hardly ever.”
  • Mass journalism and democracy are inextricably entwined
  • The Net Delusion
  • Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce — and Why It Matters
  • For more on “The Net Delusion,”
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    Feb 22 Does the Net allow more freedom or does is it a tool for governments and business to control us? Jenny
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    1.7_surveillance 2.6_pol_gov 3.4_internet
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    Does the Net allow more freedom or is it a tool for governments and businesses to control us? The Net allows both. The users can roam freely to their discretion where and what they want to put onto the web. It is just a matter of a country censoring the content, or the user self-censoring what is to be put on the web. Also, the governments and businesses both can use the Net to their advantage. The government can learn and find out various information of various individuals and trends of the public through the Net's social networking websites and other portal that have discussion between citizens themselves. Business are able to keep track of trends to see what is happening, such as the stock prices to what people like to eat, listen to, what they like to use. Thus the businesses are able to stay in business a little easier through knowing the information from the web. The businesses can also advertise themselves through the net, and that way, it is actually faster than having actual offline campaigns and advertisement. Therefore, the net can allow us both. We are free to use it more than let it control us. It's just a matter of fact that higher class society, social ranking, or economic status-ed has more chances to controlling the net due to their connections with the higher ups. Yet, censorship and surveillance is everywhere, and thus doesn't allow absolute freedom.
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AppleInsider | Georgia state senator hopes to replace schoolbooks with iPads - 3 views

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    Is this a good or bad idea? Feb 14 Alec
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    I believe that this is a good idea because the children will get an ipad for $500 and also the text books included this will cut down on the price of schooling because instead of having to pay more money for books. Also this will give the children more up to date knowledge on current events because they will get updates from around the world everyday.
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Doodle: easy scheduling - 3 views

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    Who wants to try this out? diigo administration asap cream nat
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How Apple co-opted the Internet | Apple - CNET News - 2 views

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    For mac people. What is Mac's bottom line?
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BBC News - Google persuades Spanish bank BBVA to use the cloud - 2 views

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SCAM! This Is How To Hack Hotmail, Gmail And Yahoo Mail Account » Account, at... - 2 views

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    Avik and last pass, etc.
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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.
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AnandTech - The next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review - 2 views

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    for apple aficionados
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