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Face To Face Send And Receive
3,057 wordsInternet, its effects in our lives and the future of the Internet: The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970 s to form the US...
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Bad Guy Good Guy
1,745 wordsBeneath the world we know is the world they inhabit. They penetrate; ravage private and publicly owned computer systems. Its not something they do to pass the time but it is their life. They can crack any code and get inside any system. They infect computers with viruses and steal information for their personal usage. They posses a superior intelligence and use it in a destructive and anti social manner. They are domestic terrorists. They are a culture of their own they are hackers. The movie co...
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2000 From The World Wide Great Deal
1,401 wordsHackers. You know them as gang kids with radiation tans caused by too many late nights in front of a computer screen. Evil beings who have the power to wipe out your credit rating, cancel your cable TV, raise your insurance premiums, and raid your social security pension. Individuals who always avert their eyes and mumble under their breath about black helicopters and CIA transmissions. Paranoid, social deviants who could start World War III from the privacy of their bedrooms. Or so the mainstre...
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Kevin Mitnick Material Wealth
1,971 wordsOver the years, to this date, the media has distorted the definition of a hacker. It has been morphed and demonized to someone who terrorizes cyberspace. However, the true hacker is someone who seeks knowledge and information. When hackers hack into systems or networks, it is to explore an operating system that is foreign to them. The younger generations have bred a new philosophy of hacking. Wannabe hackers who do not deserve the title hacker use simple utilities available over the Internet to ...
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Electronic Commerce Financial Institutions
1,183 wordsHow do you secure something that is changing faster than you can fix it? The Internet has had security problems since its earliest days as a pure research project. Today, after several years and orders of magnitude of growth, is still has security problems. It is being used for a purpose for which it was never intended: commerce. It is somewhat ironic that the early Internet was design as a prototype for a high-availability command and control network that could resist outages resulting from ene...
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Health Care Industry Face To Face
6,086 wordsInternet and it s future The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people s homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970 s to form the US Department of Defense s communications sy...
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Floppy Disk Virus Infection
542 wordsAnna L. Porter Professor J. Brown Information Systems 201 December 1, 1998 Computer Viruses A computer virus is an illegal and potentially damaging computer program designed to infect other software by attaching itself to any software it contacts. In many cases, virus programs are designed to damage computer systems maliciously by destroying or corrupting data. If the infected software is transferred to or accessed by another computer system, the virus spreads to the other system. Viruses have b...
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Federal Bureau Of Investigation Large Corporations
1,325 wordsHacking to Peaces The Information Superhighway possesses common traits with a regular highway. People travel on it daily and attempt to get to a predetermined destination. There are evil criminals who want to violate citizens in any way possible. A reckless driver who runs another off the road is like a good hacker. Hacking is the way to torment people on the Internet. Most of the mainstream hacking community feel that it is their right to confuse others for their entertainment. Simply stated, h...
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