With the way the world is shaping technology and the cyber world are becoming larger each day. Things started to change around the year 2003 when the (would be) leading role in the cyber security world would form. Anonymous has been shaping itself more each day to the get the brand of being internet anarchists and wearing the signature Guy Fawkes masks. Some even dub the group as the protectors of the internet fighting crime where they believe is morally right. The anarchist view of Anon was that no one had any sort of control over it and anyone and everyone could claim to be a part of Anon. There are no written rules when it comes to Anonymous but the idea is to collectively promote freedom of speech, try and combat government control where they deem …show more content…
Once the group started to mature into a more widely used phenomenon, Anon moved on to a platform using the website “Encyclopaedia Dramatica” which could help increase their operations. Things started rolling fast for Anon when Project Chanology took form which was an attack against the Church of Scientology. The Project was conducted by sending out a plethora of DDoS attacks on the website, prank calling the church, and also sending black page faxes to their fax machines to use all of their ink cartridges. After all the hacks had been performed on the church they gained a lot of attention from the media. It escalated into protests on the streets in a lot of big cities around the world. With all this attention, the idea of a press release was mentioned by the media. So one Anon member decided he would step up and make a YouTube video. In the video the speech of the masked member was synthesized for even more protection from being identified. This video is said to be the stepping stone of what Anonymous is
In the essay “Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt” the author Julie Zhou demonstrates the negative impact Anonymity in the internet has had on human beings. Following with a convincing argument for unmasking these “trolls” of the internet.
The Internet is a vast world of virtual information. Activities like online shopping and social networking sites have put people in the position to ask themselves how private their own information is among the rest of the Internet. Can the average person completely control their privacy or are some parts of their personal information out of their control? To go along with that, is online privacy the complete responsibility of the individual? I have found that online privacy can be difficult to completely control because of the various types of tracking and third party devices. With that said, although these devices can get private information very subtly, being informed of the information gathering methods can help a person make better decisions for their privacy on the Internet. However, complete privacy is unlikely (Mitchell, 2013).
A group known as the anarchist believed that the government should be abolished and then the people would be free to live co-operatively with full social and political freedom. Anarchy began as a political philosophy and soon turned into an all-out revolution resulting in assassinations, bombings and kidnappings spanning over the better part of the past century. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, anarchy started to become more of a fashion trend, if you will, rather than a political philosophy. “I Wanna Be Anarchy”-Sex Pistols. The Punk movement in music during the late 70’s was the first to widely expose the public to anarchy and anarchist ideals.
Anonymous includes not knowing the face or name of the person. Keeping client’s confidentiality and their privilege information does not mean keeping their names from the public. Anonymity is most often used in social work research. For example, if a client participate in a research where they answer personal questions in a questionnaire, it’s the researcher’s job to make sure participates name not be known. Staying anonymous gives client the privilege to give more details and be more truthful about certain topics. Knowing they would never be identify, gives clients a sense of power to say whatever they want say, with no
...tor, 1992). Perhaps the LULU risk that the public is hearing from the ãexpertsä is in fact inaccurate. As a future recommendation for NIMBY conflicts, both the public and technical community views should be treated as problematic. Also, there should not be such a stereotypical view of leaders of activist groups as being irrational, over-emotional, or ill informed. Finally, NIMBY activists should see themselves as part of the situation that the project will address, instead of focusing on just the narrow issue of opposing the project. They must see the larger picture and be willing to offer and maybe help implement alternatives to the project.
In the article, The Masked Avengers, by David Kushner, Kushner describes and goes into detail about the life of a man named, Christopher Doyon. Kushner starts his article with the childhood of Doyon and how he became involved with hacking groups early in his life. Doyon’s mother passed away when he was a child and he grew up with an abusive father. At fourteen years old, Doyon left his abusive home and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he joined his first hacker group called the Tech Model Railroad Club. Although Doyon was very into computers and hacking groups, he was not a skilled coder. He felt that he was more of an activist and that using computers and technology was his way to get his point across.
The web has in recent years brought new concerns about privacy in an age where technology indefinitely stores and records all social media aspects, every online photo posted, every status update, blogs and twitter posts by and about us will be stored forever available for future generations to see. At the heart of the Internet culture is a force that wants to find out everything about you. In 2010 Microsoft published a report that stated that 75 percent of United States recruiters and human resource professionals that they surveyed are not only checking online sources to learn about potential candidates, but they also reported that their companies have made online screening a formal requirement before hiring any candidates. Of the recruiters and human resource professionals surveyed 70 percent say they rejected candidates based on information found on social media site. This has lead so many people’s awareness about online privacy and the need to control public access to private accounts by online privacy settings in order to protect they online and real world reputation. There have been legal suits against many sites and employer’s over the invasion of privacy on the internet. The authenticity of what the recruiters find on these social media sites should be questioned.
... stricter policies about drinking on college campuses throughout the nation. The most well known group, Alcoholic Anonymous, was founded in 1935 by Wilson and Smith in Akron, Ohio. The purpose was to anonymously treat users and allow them to confide and share their feelings with others in a similar position or willing to help.
Multiple identities have been increased by the creation of cyberspace communications according to "Cyberspace and Identity" by Sherry Turkle. Turkle uses four main points to establish this argument. Her first point is that online identity is a textual construction. Secondly she states that online identity is a consequence-free moratorium. Turkle's third point is online identity expands real identity. Finally, her last point states that online identity illustrates a cultural concept of multiplicity. I disagree with many aspects of her argument and I have found flaws in her argument. Technology is an area that does not stand still and consequently outpaced Turkle's argument.
At what level is Internet surveillance by the United States government acceptable to society, considering a balance between security and privacy, what are the short and long term implications, and how does it affect the rest of the world.
Online identity is a term that is used for all that there is found about a person or company in the online environment. Not only a website or a social media profile creates this environment, it’s a compilation of those things that when combined make the online identity. In our current information society the importance of a good online identity has become bigger then ever. How you look online, has influence on how people perceive you in real life. 86 percent of the recruiters will look online for a profile or other information found in search engines before even inviting you on a job interview .
In this new era of the Internet, most people use the Internet to acquire information of one kind or other. But what these people are not aware of is that the Internet is collecting information about them. Every time we get onto the Internet there might be a compromise of privacy of our personal information. The information flows both ways. With every clock of the mouse on a hyperlink, or an addition to the mailing list, someone out there might be gathering information about us. This raises the seriousness of privacy of our information on the Internet.
The Internet is a connection of computers across the world through a network. Its origin dates back to the 1960s when the U.S Military used it for research, but it became more available to the public from the late 1980s. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 and browsers began appearing in the early 1990s. Over the last 24 years, the Internet has enabled people to shop, play, do research, communicate and conduct business online. It has also become cheaper and faster in performing different tasks. As much as the Internet has done immeasurable good to society, it has also dominated people’s lives and brought with it an array of cybercrimes. According to Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way we Think, Read and Remember (Carr, 2010). He debates on whether the Internet has done more harm than good. People use the Internet daily to exchange accurate information and constantly personal data such as credit cards, passwords and Social Security numbers are travelling through the network from one computer to another. With security measures put in place on the Internet, personal information remains confidential. But unfortunately, criminals have adapted to innovations in technology, and today, more people are increasingly becoming victims of cybercrime. The Internet has had profound effects on the public, both positive and negative. In this paper we will examine how access to personal information has led to an increase in online and offline crimes. The essay will particularly focus on ecommerce and hacking.
An extensive debate has formed over the years since the explosion of social networks about online and offline identities. An identity is defined according to (Oxforddictionaries.com, 2014) as the characteristics determining who or what a person or a thing is. An online identity is defined as a identity that a person establish in an online environment such as social networks. An offline identity is defined as a identity that a person establish in an offline environment such as in real life.
1) What is critical reasoning, and how can it be applied to ethical issues involving cyber technology?