There's a whole lot of interesting stuff on CBS News' SciTech recently. There's a web-based company offering the service of decoding a person's DNA. Think about the security risks here. I don't know how likely it is to be able to easily copy or fake someone's DNA, but just the thought of someone being able to access that data, seems scary to me.
Some you may even find material relevant to your final projects for this class. For example:
Cybersecurity / International / US
Cyber Threat from China
Foreign Hacker Alert
GPS
When GPS Doesn't Cut It
E-Voting
The Web-Based Youth Vote
Cyber Youth Rock the Vote
Electronic Voting Angst
Tech & Elderly / Pervasive / Ubiquitous Computing
Digitally-Assisted Living
Tools for the 21st Century
Monday, February 11, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Corporation
The film The Corporation from which I showed clips of in Friday's discussion can be watched in its entirety using the shareware version available on YouTube.
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