Thursday, August 30, 2012

Online Security

Since so much of our lives is spent online downloading information and friends, keeping your personal life locked down while surfing the web is a high priority.  What Ian was mentioning was, of course, common sense to all students, but the big thing that I saw that he centered around just not being stupid.  All the gimmicks that he showed were so simple yet so clever; the scroll bar that really isn't a scroll bar, and the Facebook security stuff.  The password stuff was really interesting, because I didn't think anybody could actually just leave 12345 as their password and think they're safe.  And to think that big companies like Sony can be just hacked like, "No biggie, dude, I do this all the time, hacking into huge companies with baller lawyers.  No sweat!"  But yeah, mainly Ian's talk was very helpful and I look forward to another presentation, if there is to be one.

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