• Detection Stick Is Like the Hot Tub Time Machine for Smut

  My main concern isn't about what it does (even though it is quite odd), but how successful it will be.

  Tags: ITGS, privacy, security, control

  • - By Max van Mesdag

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Congratulations but your work is unfortunately not over - now in fact might be the most important time of the course where you consolidate your knowledge and understanding ready for the examinations. Remember you know what you did right and wrong in the mocks - so try to learn from this. We will over the next few weeks be practicing timed past questions and by Easter you will have had all of the past papers that I possess to practice with.

Target 1 - Wiki Overhaul and Update

• You will need as a group to review the wiki so far and where there are holes.
• Think about the style of question that you get on the Case Study paper - and could you answer those with the information on the wiki, specifically think about the definitions questions and the long answer 12 mark question that requires knowledge of examples

Target 2 - Jeopardy Revision Exercises

• Secondly you will each need to produce jeopardy games for a particular area of the course - which you will need to choose from the ones listed below: -

1. Case Study and Definitions (Dr Tech)
2. CC1 - CC4 - Hardware and Software (KripaGumba)
3. CC5 - CC7 - Using Computers and Productivity (Odo)
4. CC8 - CC9 - Networking and the Internet (Perriwinkle)
5. CC10 - CC11 - Computer Security and Risks (ShakeandBake)
6. CC14 - CC15 - AI and Algorithms (SilliBilliBoi)

• How do you produce a Jeopardy Game that is downloadable - well easy go to this site Flash Jeopardy Game
• Note it is easy to produce but try to make the questions sensible, relevant and make sure their are some difficult ones in there!
• You need to produce two different sets of 25 questions for your game.

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• A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist

  Tags: ITGS, information, data, peopleandmachines

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• BBC News - Microsoft browser ballot criticised for being 'limited'

  I'm not gonna lie, this is a big step for microsoft in terms of being drawn out of monopolization. 

  Tags: bbc, news, microsoft, policiesandstandards, intellectualproperty, control, businessandemployment, peopleandmachines

  • - By Mcdoogleh CDKEY

• BBC News - Spanish police arrest masterminds of 'massive' botnet

  Crime never pays...

  Tags: news, bbc, spanish, security

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• BBC News - Apple patent case 'could affect all android phones'

  Tags: bbc, news, apple, security, equalityofaccess, control, authenticity, intellectualproperty, globalisation, policiesandstandards, integrity, system

• BBC News - PlayStation 3 gaming console clock bug 'fixed'

  This did not bode well for PS3 when it did happen

  Tags: news, bbc, playstation, control, ITGS, businessandemployment, authenticity, anonymity, intellectualproperty, globalisation, policiesandstandards, privacy, peopleandmachines, system

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• BBC News - Money sharing comes to Facebook

  This is interesting, if payments are made over facebook, doesn't that mean that a bigger bang will happen if a data-breach occurs? 

  Tags: news, bbc, money, businessandemployment, peopleandmachines, policiesandstandards

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So you have watched that wonderful BBC series "A Virtual Revolution" and the four interesting episodes, so how much of that information has sunk in? What are your views on what was said, do you disagree or agree with the values and systems the series spoke about?

Well here is your time to explain. You must choose an essay title from below and using the information from the program and other sources, write a balanced 1000 word essay outlining with specific examples the different sides of the arguments. The essay should think closely about the social and ethical issues surrounding the argument and a variety of stakeholders. The essay should I will repeat be BALANCED in argument - although you should conclude with your thoughts and ideas in a conclusion section with analysis. Please use specific examples to illustrate any arguments for or against. As with any essay please use correct referencing: -

1. Is the Internet helping peoples freedoms and rights to express opinion or is it helping states, governments and small groups control and monitor people more easily? (Bob_Saget)
   
2. Is the Internet harming us as intellectual human beings leading to addiction, laziness and lack of concentration, or it it opening and strengthening the human races ability to communicate and learn? (Nabsuh)
   
3. Is the social and moral cost of receiving content for free a long term benefit or is it a price worth paying even if people lose employment and we sacrifice our own personal information? (FatsMillion)
   
4. Will the Internet survive as an idealistic technology that aims to give power to individuals rather than authorities, or has that already disappeared? (Youngtroopz)

A Rubric will be published shortly, for grading purposes.

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• PlayStation Network Gets Back to Normal

  Playstation 3 owners had been scared yesterday when some machines miscalculated a leap year, disconnecting it from the loop of PlayStation Network. Everything seems to be okay now, we hope.

  Tags: escapist, ITGS, globalisation, reliability

  • - By Max van Mesdag

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Well you have read about graphics in your computer confluence so now its time to play around with the well known Photoshop CS3 to see practically what can be done and what you might think is ethical and unethical in terms of digital manipulation. First you need to practice and understand many of the processes and tools that you have access to that enable you to alter photographs in CS3. I will provide some tutorials (please see the Firstclass conference setup for you)  - of which you must do these three at least - Wound Tutorial, Balloon Tutorial, Aging Tutorial. But most of you will need to use your own video tutorials as well etc that you find.  These should include the use of the following tools:-

1. Clone Stamp Tool
2. Masks
3. Layers / Layer Masks
4. Lasso Tools
5. Blur Filter
6. Layer Blending Modes
7. Free Transform
8. Healing Brush
9. Brush Selection
10. Defining/Creating a Brush
11. Dodge Tool

More tools than you thought..huh. Well now you have practiced with them it is time to use them to change some photos to see what you believe is the difference between ethical and unethical. You must first take your own digital pictures of as many teachers around the campus as possible. This could be group photos, portraits, action in fact whatever you would like to take. As a group from the photographs, choose which two you will all use to manipulate. From these photos you need to change and manipulate the two photos in two ways:-

• Place the teachers selected within a setting, scam, position etc that would be considered unethical in terms of how you have manipulated them.
• Manipulate a photo subtly so that it changes mood, style etc which you would consider enhances a photo but does not impinge on the integrity of the photo.
• Write an explanation of the photoshop manipulations explaining how they sit within the ethics of photo editing, and then link this to your rules for how to control or provide policies and standards for digital photography. To help you please read Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography and Digital Imaging Ethics along with NPAA Code of Ethic.
• Present your work, showing before and after photographs, along with a discussion of the ethics with conclusions. All works used should be cited correctly.

You will need to use as many of the skills that you have practiced that are listed above ad maybe need to practice or improve with new skills. Remember Photoshop has untold features and power. Both the photos should on initial glance look untouched, the more professional the better grade you will receive. Be original and creative...and have fun!

P.S. To get you thinking further take the hoax test, and then think about which stakeholders of these photographs might have found the fakes as unethical (thanks to Coolness 16 for the website)?

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.I have finished part one of the book. Part One: The internet Revolution is a discussion of the early days of the internet in the 1990s. Julian Dibbell and John Perry Barlow are mentioned for creating a vision that triggered public imagination around the world. This chapter also mentions the Electronic Frontier Foundation which worked to protect the internet from regulation in the belief that a free online community might unite people and melt government away. Also discussed is Jon Postel’s attempt to assert control over the root naming and numbering system in 1998. Also mentioned is the US government which flexed its power in order to protect its national defence. This chapter was not as easy to read but was still an easy read. I am starting to become more interested with this book. It shows many different views on who controls the internet and how it is being controlled

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• Breakdancing Is No Match For Project Natal's Sensors

  Looks like Microsoft's Project Natal is more advanced than most of us thought. It effectively tracks bodily movements, even in low-light conditions.

  Tags: ITGS, Microsoft, Natal, reliability

  • - By Max van Mesdag

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"Computer security is often advertised in the abstract"

"The first questions to ask are: "Secure from whom?" and "Secure against what?"

"Security is never black and white"

Just the beginning of the 'landscape' being written out.

Bruce Schneier opens out the section with questions that people rarely ask themselves, even expressing how while computer's have 'security', it never really explains what security it has and why it has that type of security. For example, an email-server may be secure, but people never question themselves "why is it secure?" or "what is it secure from?". Bruce (I'm afraid that calling him by his full name will get tedious, so Bruce it is), discusses how companies create products which are 'secure' without thinking the type of security level and by calling it 'secure', it creates false-premises for a product.

Bruce leads on then, to discuss the threats on a digital-network, and how muggers, and real-life robberies are less frequent because of the digitizing of items such as money. Pointing out however, that cyberspace is becoming the new area for crime, changing the nature of how the attacks work. He also discusses that by having attacks happen in a digital-world, it makes it harder to "track, capture, and convict the perpetrators", bringing up 3 areas, Automation (In which a program automatically hacks and takes money digitally), Action at a Distance(In which hacking can occur over a distance), Technique propagation (Where a malware or virus can automatically reprogram itself in a hacking situation [This was the hardest one to understand]. (Dr.T, if you want me to explain these, I can). These are the three primary threats that face the internet, as discussed in the second chapter. In the next post, I'll go in depth into Chapter 3 & 4, though I'm further ahead, the book requires a lot of... neurons to read XD

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The first chapter is called punk capitalism, it explores one of the main ideas of this book. Punk capitalists are people (punks) who are introducing us to how the new world works with a D.I.Y. approach. This D.I.Y. approach promotes such values as image is nothing, resist authority ect.  This type of thinking does not relate to ITGS and I didnt see the relation before I read ''Punk was an anger outburst, a reaction to mass culture, but it offered new about how mass culture could be replaced with a more personalized, less centralized worldview'', this quote opened my eyes to what the internet is. A way of anyone, anywhere having the freedom of self expression which directly ties into what 'punk' is to punk enthusiast.  Punk capitalists get their points of view across, through advertisments. Matt Mason introduces a band called VICE which freatured in mainstream advertisments such as Nike, Levi's, and Absolut vodka.

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Fats Million is reading Remix by Lawrence Lessig!

Thank you, Slowpoke. In my first update with the book I am reading for ITGS, Lessig has already delved into the topic of a 'hybrid economy' to combat piracy. As he has written, many people believe that "Either Hollywood will win or The Net will win" the situation. For these people, there is no middle ground to suggest that the pirates can work together with original creators. This is not entirely true, because there are examples where digital distribution can coexist with actual payment. Take iTunes for example, which successfully combatted against organizations such as Napster (when they did provide free sharing of music). Although Steve Jobs was not the first person to try, Apple was the most influencial solution. Now iTunes proudly shows off its recent figure of ten billion downloaded, completely paid-for songs. Later in the book, Lessig will most likely explain his own plan to build upon these facts.

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• BBC News - Microsoft offers web browser choice to IE users

  Millions of Internet Explorer users in Europe will get the chance to change their web browser from 1 March.

  Tags: no_tag

  • - By Mcdoogleh CDKEY

• BBC News - WordPress network bug throws millions of blogs offline

  The internet's largest blogging platform went offline for nearly two hours silencing more than 10 million blogs.

  Tags: bbc, news, wordpress, reliability, Server, Crash, Blogger, Cries, :'(

  • - By Mcdoogleh CDKEY

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