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COMP 607: Reflections on week 10
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 21, 2015 - 9:35pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortThe world is a much smaller place than it was when I was going to high school. I could have never imagined that I would be enrolled in a program where I never have to sit in a physical classroom, and where all learning is conducted over a...COMP 607: Reflections on week 9
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 15, 2015 - 7:34pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortI am certain that most people can relate to this week’s topic. Most professionals have been touched in one way or the other by an employer either monitoring traffic over work networks or being requested for social network account names. As...COMP 607: Reflections on week 8
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 8, 2015 - 4:16pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortThe news story that I had chosen to describe for unit was a Global Research article that described how a group of individuals gained access to the CIA director’s personal e-mail account through social engineering. What was particularly...COMP 607: Reflections on week 7
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort November 1, 2015 - 9:10amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortLocal cybercrime legislation, for the most part, attempts to stem and discourage malicious activities that originate or utilize information technology within national boundaries. However, a broader interpretation and method of enforcement is...COMP 607: Reflections on week 6
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort October 25, 2015 - 12:56pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortAccording to the Canada Intellectual Proprty Office (CIPO), one can file for a patent if the invention is new, useful and inventive. The Office defines "inventive" as showing ingenuity and not obvious. The Office states that an invention can be a...COMP 607: Reflections on week 5
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort October 18, 2015 - 10:09amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortThe pyramid discussions and scenarios this week made me ponder about the relationship between morality, ethics and legality. While my mind defaulted to the concept where if something is illegal, it must be unethical, it clearly is not the case. I...Week 5: Pyramid Discussion: Whole cohort
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort October 18, 2015 - 9:42amPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortThis is the area where the entire cohort discusses one or more of the scenerios in the pyramid discussion in Week 5Week 5: Pair 4 Pyramid Discussion
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort October 17, 2015 - 12:29pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortYou purchase a copy-protected game that can be installed on only one machine. Because you are a sensible and careful computer professional, you use a piece of software that breaks the copy protection in order to make a backup copy in case the...Google book-scanning project legal, says U.S. appeals court
By nmas in the group COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohort October 16, 2015 - 6:36pmPosted to group: COMP 607: Fall 2015 cohortA U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue.
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