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Blown to BitsWho is Claude Shannon? - correct answer ✔Father of the information and
digital age
an idea is both non-exclusive and non-rivalrous - correct answer ✔The idea
can be shared equally
Bits - correct answer ✔0s and 1s
What are some of the features of bits, or information stored in bits - correct
answer ✔computer data, messages, emails, calls, etc.
Moore's Law - correct answer ✔the observation that computing power
roughly doubles every two years.
How did the patriot act affect how agencies share information? - correct
answer ✔The US patriot act gave government agencies the sweeping
authority to sift through mostly innocent data looking for signs of "suspicious
activity" by potential terrorists-and to notice lesser transgressions, such as
governor Spitzer's, in the process.
Privacy concerns with selling de-identified data - correct answer ✔It is hard
to re-identify the data and figure out the medical concerns of that particular
person. The re identified data could be very similar to other people. It often
hard to get privacy on data as AOL tried to protect privacy by removing a
single piece of identification and making it harder to identify, when really it
wasn't hard at all.
,How can the Government record your private conversations without planting a
"bug" on you? - correct answer ✔Cell phones can be reprogrammed
remotely so the microphone is always on and the phone is transmitting.
General Motors have the On star system that can be remotely activated by the
FBI.
How can private enterprises track you without planting a "bug"? - correct
answer ✔By tracking your phone calls or credit card purchases. Digital
footprints and finger prints.
What are the differences between the privacy invasions of the novel 1984 and
the current threats to privacy in the digital world? - correct answer ✔In
George Orwell's book, there were cameras located everywhere in London.
The actual city now has at least half a million. Big brother two-way telescreens
would be amateurish toys. Technology in the digital age seemed more
advanced than the technology from Orwell's book.
How is an analogue form of media different from a digital one? - correct
answer ✔Analog media is printed paper, recorded sound, magazine, film, and
videotapes in their original form. Digital media is "all-new objects," whether
created from scratch on computers or converted from analog sources, are
composed of digital code.
examples of analog and digital media - correct answer ✔Analog Media:
Sound recorder. It can record the wave of a sound and play it on the sound
recorder. Another example is film where every frame is recorded like
measuring tapes.
Digital Media: HTML websites: Images, text, coding, videos. A movie with
hundreds of images can be changed without changing their element.
Why do printers secretly encode their serial numbers and other information in
their output? - correct answer ✔They are used in order to identify which
device it was printed from along with who printed a document.
, If you own an American car made after 2011, what item does it contain that is
of great interest to the police and to insurance companies? - correct answer
✔EDR
What is an RFID tag? - correct answer ✔A device that contains a microchip
and antenna, and typically works by transmitting a serial number via radio
waves to an electronic reader which confirms the identity of a person or object
bearing the tag
How can RFID device erode your privacy? - correct answer ✔They are so
small that they can easily be hidden in a book.
Why was the British National Tax scandal a uniquely digital problem? - correct
answer ✔The British national tax agency failed to send a package
government auditing agency via TNT making the agency (brown) look bad in
front of the public.
Recent events that resemble the British tax scandal. - correct answer
✔Panama Papers, Ex/cum trades, Big Tech, South Africa, and Trump Family.
What are some examples of failed "redactions"? Why did they occur and what
did they demonstrate about government agencies and national newspapers? -
correct answer ✔An Italian blogger who scrutinized the report on the death
of Nicola Calipari recovered the redacted information using ordinary office
software. It illustrates what can go wrong when users accept such a metaphor
too literally. The Washington Post made exactly the same mistake in 2002,
when it published an article about a demand letter left by the Washington
snipers, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. As posted on the Post's
web site, certain information was redacted in a way that was easily reversed
by an inquisitive reader of the online edition of the paper.
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