Within the last few months, the view on hacker activity has drastically changed. Hackers as in those who search for vulnerabilities to exploit an application, have almost always been thought as an unethical use for a computer. For example, a few months ago there was a number of incidents written about a group of hackers who had been finding vulnerabilities in big applications and then selling the information to third parties. They claimed to be a group of terrorists. Very recently, the view for many people on hacker activity has shifted to a more neutral or even positive one. According to the article I have attached above from CSMonitor, companies have placed bounties on themselves to encourage external hackers to find bugs in the software. One hacker earned 63,000 dollars in bug bounty money through one company alone. While this tactic has protected companies from some hacker attacks, some in the public worry that this will open a new age of hackers. It will attract many more programmers to engage in hacking. It will also give a safe ethical way for hackers who would do mischief, to practice their skills.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Current event #4
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/1030/Glitches-to-riches-The-hackers-who-make-a-killing-off-software-flaws
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Study Journal 3
Oct 06:
My thought when we talked about passwords
Passwords being a bad thing? Things ever going this way is
very
surprising to me. I can see the sharing of ideas and open
software being supported, but
the absent of passwords isn't something I would have seen
many people supporting.
Support teams are the key to monetization of open source
software.
This opened a whole market of jobs.
The partnership (in compatibility) of Apache and Linux grew very quickly because
of the community that used them also went to help develop both of them.
Oct 08:
Trade secrets (example of coco-cola), never expire, but if
they are ever found out, they are not protected by law.
IP, Intellectual property, gives the right to exclude others
from using it. Lasts 20 years. Companies want to have big portfolios to fight
and defend each other from going to law.
Copyright, in expression, not ideas. ok to use with news,
and schools.
Oct 13:
Ethical stand of Cliff in the beginning of the book, open to
freedom of action.
small government, people just shouldn't bother each other.
to just be nice
Technical background of Cliff in the beginning of the book,
astronomer. basics of computer systems.
could have easily been a computer systems manager.
Maturity of Cliff in the beginning of the book, he was non
committal. would be happy to watch others
do unethical things as long as it didn't involve himself.
little apathy.
Oct 15:
Ethical stand of Cliff near the end of the book, hacking is
unethical, people should care about computer security
Technical background of Cliff near the end of the book, Security
minded, had the health paranoia,
knew the technical details for networks and security.
Maturity of Cliff near the end of the book, he was committal
(gets married). He thinks for himself,
deciding what is ok or not, not just following a group (whether
that is the government or college life he knew)
Oct 20:
freedoms available in different countries vary. Example:
China doesn't have freedom of religion, only those chosen go to college. Not
all information is accessible.
Ethics is not the same as law. Example word of wisdom, law of chastity,
The first amendment, freedom of speech. Sharing how to make a pipe bomb is legal (ethical? maybe not), making the bomb is not legal. Is this ok?
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Current Event 3
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/introducing-accelerated-mobile-pages.html
Open source projects still make huge changes for users in our day. Google has announced an open source framework called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). According to the article, the framework would use existing web technologies to help developers create faster mobile webpages. This change could be revolutionary for especially those who don't have fast internet like we do here in the Untied States. I find it great to see a big company like Google releasing projects under the Apache License. If this idea becomes successful, it will improve the experience on the internet for many users. Projects like these are some of the advantages to the open source movement. It gives the community a chance to help improve their fellow community members. We will see in the near future though if this movement will last. This will likely depend on if Google continues to support this project.
Open source projects still make huge changes for users in our day. Google has announced an open source framework called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). According to the article, the framework would use existing web technologies to help developers create faster mobile webpages. This change could be revolutionary for especially those who don't have fast internet like we do here in the Untied States. I find it great to see a big company like Google releasing projects under the Apache License. If this idea becomes successful, it will improve the experience on the internet for many users. Projects like these are some of the advantages to the open source movement. It gives the community a chance to help improve their fellow community members. We will see in the near future though if this movement will last. This will likely depend on if Google continues to support this project.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
study journal 2
9/22
I found it fairly interesting that when the computer was just being invented, the motivation behind improving the computer was the same as today. People wanted to hack away and make something useful out of some currently useless.
Even from the beginning of the computer, there was "open source" motivations and monetization motivation. Both really driving the progress of the computer very fast.
I thought it was pretty funny how the culture of those who programmed in the first days of computer, sounds a lot like the culture of the hobbyist programmers in our current days.
9/24
The amount of risk each of these big players took are huge. They had chances which most wouldn't have, but still they had to take them (or lose them).
I found the amount of work each of these big leaders needed to do and the sacrifice needed was insane. Like Bill Gates working all night fixing the program on the nights before one of his big presentation. I thought that sacrifice was funny that he didn't shower. Nothing was just given to any of the successful in this pc history.
Another big piece of this puzzle for success, was all the connections each of them had. The connections with their colleagues in their own company, and the connections with other companies, like IBM and Microsoft.
9/29
copycatting was huge! I never realized how much was taken from Xerox.
Effective communication is huge. Seeing the fail of Xerox was all about the tech guys not being able to convince the business guys of the huge chance they had.
An interesting point is the amount of predictions like from Oracle actually come true. It seems at the time it might have sounded a like he was telling a science fiction story. I think that applies today as well, and we should be ready to peruse those future looking ideas.
10/01
quiz day
I found it fairly interesting that when the computer was just being invented, the motivation behind improving the computer was the same as today. People wanted to hack away and make something useful out of some currently useless.
Even from the beginning of the computer, there was "open source" motivations and monetization motivation. Both really driving the progress of the computer very fast.
I thought it was pretty funny how the culture of those who programmed in the first days of computer, sounds a lot like the culture of the hobbyist programmers in our current days.
9/24
The amount of risk each of these big players took are huge. They had chances which most wouldn't have, but still they had to take them (or lose them).
I found the amount of work each of these big leaders needed to do and the sacrifice needed was insane. Like Bill Gates working all night fixing the program on the nights before one of his big presentation. I thought that sacrifice was funny that he didn't shower. Nothing was just given to any of the successful in this pc history.
Another big piece of this puzzle for success, was all the connections each of them had. The connections with their colleagues in their own company, and the connections with other companies, like IBM and Microsoft.
9/29
copycatting was huge! I never realized how much was taken from Xerox.
Effective communication is huge. Seeing the fail of Xerox was all about the tech guys not being able to convince the business guys of the huge chance they had.
An interesting point is the amount of predictions like from Oracle actually come true. It seems at the time it might have sounded a like he was telling a science fiction story. I think that applies today as well, and we should be ready to peruse those future looking ideas.
10/01
quiz day
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