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State Of CyberSecurity In India(Week 10)

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State Of Cybersecurity In India                                         img url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/1200px-Flag_of_India.svg.png               Kevin Mitnick is considered by many people around the world to be the face of hacking especially by any that have heard of his exploits. As a young child, he exploited his city’s public transportation and found a way to get free rides on buses. He rapidly got smarter and smarter with age employing more and more complicated techniques to get what he wanted[1]. At 16, he used social engineering techniques along with traditional hacking to hack into a DEC’s computer network and copied it’s software. This incident that occurred in 1979 resulted in jail time for Kevin. He had to undergo 12 months of jail time and 3 years of supervis...

Examples Of Good And Bad Ergonomy (week 9)

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  Examples Of Good And bad Ergonomics Wikipedia defines Ergonomics as “the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes and systems.”[1]. The effect of cumulation of ergonomy contributes to the overall wellbeing and the output and productivity of the affected workplace. Even simple ergonomic changes can caused a great improve productivity akin to the same way consistent miniscule changes can contribute to a great change, very similar to the butterfly effect phenomenon. Good ergonomy makes daily work easier and healthier for the employee or the user of the technology. Microsoft Ergonomic Surface Keyboard Microsoft created the Microsoft Ergonomic Surface Keyboard in the hopes of creating: A design optimised for productivity A natural arc and slope A palm rest covered in stunning two-ton grey melange Alcantara Bluetooth 4.0 ·     img src: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61jcP-trvhL._AC_SL1200_....

The Life Of An IT Professional In India(Week 8)

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img url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/1200px-Flag_of_India.svg.png The Life Of An IT Professional In India The IT sector is relatively new in India.[1]   In fact, it has not seen one generational change yet, as it started around the seventies. However, in its relatively short life span, it has become one of the world’s top leaders in IT development and research. After twenty years of world domination, India’s IT sector has proven to be a force still to be reckoned with, as it has continued to adapt to changes in the technological landscape and has profited itself with innovation and skill. The sector has increased its contribution to India’s GDP from 1.2% to 8% over the past two decades, and it will only continue rising. [2] An industry as competitive and complex as this one requires a skilled workforce and competent individuals. There are many qualities and attitudes required to stand out in such a competitive industry, but before I can ...

Netiquette (week 7)

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  Adhere to the same standards of behaviour online that you follow in real life img src: https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/comic-book-with-cloud-and-cursing-vector-id1065946200 I am of the opinion that the internet is a true reflection of what a human would be without the constraints of consequence or punishment. People express extreme depravity and commit horrible moral blunders just because their behaviour does not fall under constant scrutiny. A prime example of how far people can fall is the case of Christian Weston Chandler. An example of how a person was controlled and influenced for more than a decade by other horrible people online. He was not a sane person and clearly had a few mental diseases, he did not understand how to respond to trolls and kept responding to them. It is speculated that his autism led to him believing everything that his trolls told him, after a decade of being misled, he lost all sense of reality until he was coaxed by a horrible troll to violat...

The Impact Of Copyleft On An Individual Project (week 6)

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  The Impact Of Copyleft On An Individual Project According to Wikipedia, copylefting is the practice of granting the right to freely distribute and modify intellectual property with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created from that property[1]. The most popular iteration or form of copylefting can be found in the shape of the GNU General Public license which was written personally by the legendary programmer and member of the American Free Software Movement Mr Richard Matthew Stallman[2]. He decided to take this course of action when a rival company requested him to share his work on a LISP compiler, however when Mr Stallman requested for the modified version of his compiler from the company the company refused and refrained from sharing the software. Mr Stallman had been victim to this form of injustice many times in the past but he stated that this was the turning point in him deciding to developing the GNU General Public License.[4] img u...

A Review Of The Case For Copyright Reform (week 5)

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  Review Of The Case For Copyright Reform[1] Copyright law is the biggest pet peeve for any Youtuber who has taken YouTube seriously, or even aspiring musicians who completely transform the sounds that they sample. It is so bad that copyright claiming videos has been deemed a valid source of income for some ‘entrepreneurs’ who have dedicated bots scrambling around YouTube to find any form of copyrighted content no matter the context or situation the copyrighted content was used in, that is that there was no regard for the intent behind the usage or whether the footage/ sound byte even has any relevance to the content at hand. The situation has become so toxic that creators get copyright claimed just for saying the words of the song with no music or even humming the tune silently would be grounds enough for the bots to determine that you violated copyright law. This is all even though the Fair Use law states that it is the intent of the creator and the quantity used, that it is no...

A Concise Review Of The “2004 Information Society Report To The Parliament Of Finland By Pekka Himanen” (week 4)

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  Review Of The “2004 Information Society report to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen”[1] img url:    https://im.mtv.fi/image/1236494/landscape16_9/555/313/de642b7bc85ca07e1d32cc436721a75/xX/808558.jpg According to my searches on Wikipedia[2], Pekka Himanen is a Finnish philosopher. He studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki. I must admit that this pdf was an extremely interesting read and I admire the brilliance of Dr Pekka Himanen. It is absolutely stunning the problems that he brings up in this document and to take the time to draft such a document to submit to the parliament is honourable, Dr Himanen has earned my utmost respect and reading the document is enough to understand that why Dr Himanen is the youngest person in Finland to ever receive a doctorate degree at the tender age of 21. “The future of welfare society is in creativity” Dr Himanen talks about what he thinks the future holds for Finland, a country that follows the European model...