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Mr Brooke

The Habitable Planet - Interactive Labs - 0 views

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3.8_modelling_simulations

shared by Mr Brooke on 20 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Mr Brooke on 20 Jan 11
     
    "These 5 interactive lab activities span several units, but tie together their common concepts. You may explore functional simulations or do field activities that are tied to the content of related units."
jas rafferty

Common Operating System Problems - Learning & Scholarly Technologies - 0 views

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3.2 _software 3.6_websites 3.1_hardware

shared by jas rafferty on 24 Sep 12 - Cached
  • jas rafferty on 24 Sep 12
     
    Spyware/Internet Pop-Ups Allot of internet pop-ups are built into web sites, this means that when they are related to the site that you are currently visiting. Although there are ways to prevent these pop-ups, they are, for the most part, not annoying or offensive.
Tranny Franny

BBC News - Police crackdown on fake shopping sites - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-15820758

3.4_internet 1.3_privacy_anonymity 2.1_online_bus

shared by Tranny Franny on 10 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The Zhan on 11 Jan 12
     
    This article refers to the authenticity of the identity of web shops, and the security of shoppers' credentials. "DI Hoare said shoppers should also be wary of unsolicited offers that arrive via email." A common scamming tool that cyber thieves resort to in order to "harvest credit card and banking details" is phishing. "Phishing emails usually appear to come from a well-known organization and ask for your personal information - such as credit card number, social security number, account number or password. Often times phishing attempts appear to come from sites, services and companies with which you do not even have an account. In order for Internet criminals to successfully "phish" your personal information, they must get you to go from an email to a website. Phishing emails will almost always tell you to click a link that takes you to a site where your personal information is requested. Legitimate organizations would never request this information of you via email." http://www.phishtank.com/what_is_phishing.php
  • joey <3 on 11 Jan 12
     
    this gives a similar example where they used a real store and created the fake website then... the shop owners would receive all the complaints with out actually knowing what was going on http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/01/caveat_emptor.html
Fiche Galinha

How to identify fake Facebook accounts | InSecurity Complex - CNET News - 1 views

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3.4_internet 1.5_authenticity 2.5_social_networking 2.5_home_leisure

shared by Fiche Galinha on 02 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Tranny Franny on 02 Feb 12
     
    The main social and ethical in this article would have to be authenticity, as it deals with the fact that people are making accounts to be real people. In my own experience I've had this happen to me once and it was easily identified for the reasons this article states, no status updates etc. Although in my case it was harmless, it can lead to issues of a greater significance. This article also highlights the worrying ease at which people can fake an accout and that there is a very significant number of these accounts. They could in some cases be used in a harmful manner. For example, sexual predators could easily make a profile pretending to be 15 years old, add a profile picture of a child and then add other children as friends. This creates a security issue as the children's life is in a potentially harmful situation, as these cases of sexual predators over the internet has been a security issue since social networks came to be. Another issue that lack of authenticity brings is that these fake accounts could be used for spam, and could also potentially be used to spread malware. This is a very common problem in Facebook as these fake accounts can share a link with their "friends" and from this it starts spreading throughout the entire social network.
The Zhan

Globalization and the Internet - Probe Ministries - 0 views

www.probe.org/...alization_and_the_Internet.htm

1.8_globalization_cultural_diversity 1.6_digital_div_equ_access

shared by The Zhan on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • The Internet has provided an opportunity to build a global information infrastructure that would link together the world's telecommunications and computer networks. But futurists and governmental leaders also believed that this interconnectedness would also bring friendship and cooperation, and that goal seems elusive.
  • Maybe peace and harmony are just over the horizon because of the Internet, but I have my doubts. The information superhighway certainly has connected the world together into one large global network, but highways don't bring peace. Highways connected the various countries in Europe for centuries, yet war was common and peace was not. An information superhighway connects us with countries all over the world, but global cooperation hasn't been the result, at least not yet
  • The information superhighway also has some dark back alleys. At the top of the list is pornography. The Internet has made the distribution of pornography much easier. It used to be that someone wanting to view this material had to leave their home and go to the other side of town. The Internet has become the ultimate brown wrapper. Hard core images that used to be difficult to obtain are now only a mouse click away. Children see pornography at a much younger age than just a decade ago. The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is eleven years old.{3} Sometimes this exposure is intentional, usually it is accidental. Schools, libraries, and homes using filters often are one step behind those trying to expose more and more people to pornography.
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  • All of these concerns lead to the obvious question: Who will regulate the Internet? In the early day of the Internet, proponents saw it as the cyber-frontier that would be self-regulating. The Internet was to liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. One writer said we should "look without illusion upon the present possibilities for building, in the on-line spaces of this world, societies more decent and free than those mapped onto dirt and concrete and capital."
  • Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, in their book, Who Controls the Internet?, describe the various ways foreign governments have exercised their authority.{6} • France requires Yahoo to block Internet surfers from France so they cannot purchase Nazi memorabilia.{7} • The People's Republic of China requires Yahoo to filter materials that might be harmful or threatening to Party rule. Yahoo is essentially an Internet censor for the Communist party.{8} • The Chinese version of Google is much slower than the American version because the company cooperates with the Chinese government by blocking search words the Party finds offensive (words like Tibet or democracy). Even more disturbing is the revelation that Yahoo provided information to the Chinese government that led to the imprisonment of Chinese journalists and pro-democracy leaders. Reporters Without Borders found that Yahoo has been implicated in the cases of most of the people they were defending.
  • All of this censorship and cooperation with foreign governments is disturbing, but it also underscores an important point. For years, proponents of the Internet have argued that we can't (or shouldn't) block Internet pornography or that we can't regulate what pedophiles do on the Internet. These recent revelations about Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft show that they can and do block information.
  • In previous articles we have addressed the issue of globalization and have recognized that technology (including the Internet) has made it much easier to move information around the world. There is no doubt that the Internet has accelerated the speed of transmission and thus made the world smaller. It is much easier for people around the world to access information and share it with others in this global information infrastructure
  • it diminishes the relevance of borders, territorial governments, and geography. Thomas Friedman believes that the Internet and other technologies are flattening the world "without regard to geography, distance, or, in the near future, even language."
  • There is still a legitimate function for government (Romans 13:1-7) even in this new world of cyberspace. Contrary to the perceived assumption that the Internet will shape governments and move us quickly toward globalization, there is good evidence to suggest that governments will in many ways shape the Internet.
  • The Zhan on 13 Dec 10
     
    An explanation on the implications of the information highways internet provides, censorship and governments.
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