ISYS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bot Herder, Shareware, Eminem
27 Aug 2018
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First wave: a civilization based on agriculture and handwork, relatively primitive stage. Second wave: the industrial revolution, began at the end of the 18th century and latest about 150 years. Fast growing information crime: biometrics for better protection. Spam: unsolicited email, can-spam act of 2003. Cookies: text file storing web browsing activity, can opt for cookies not to be stored, websites might not function properly without cookies. Software used for data collection without the users" knowledge: unlikely this activity will become illegal anytime soon. Some of the victims include: eminem, panasonic, hertz, avon: the practise of registering a domain name and later reselling it, anti-cybersquatting consumer protection act in 1999. Fines as high as 100,000, some companies pay the cybersquatting to speed up the process of getting the domain. Carnivore: developed by the government to monitor all cyber communication. In 2005 fbi abandoned carnivore for commercially available software. Responsible computer use (based on work of the computer ethics institute) prohibits:
