Muddiest Point

I'm curious about digital certificates. Couldn't people pretend to certify a web site and then somehow infect the user's computer or gather personal information. It just seems like people create spams, Spyware, Adware, all such things and try to come across as legitimate sites, so couldn't they pretend to be a legitimate certified site to trick people as well?

Week 13 Responses

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Week 13 Readings

No Place to Hide:
Looking at this did nothing to help my nervousness over the whole everyone being watched thing. It is incredibly scary and frustrating to know that we are being tracked through the very devices we have become so dependent on. And really, is there anything anyone can do to stop it?

TIA & Datamining:
The fact that Total Information Awareness came to be is incredibly disturbing . How it could be developed intending to give law enforcement total access to private data without them having any cause to want it, is absurd. And while it may no longer be up and running, other programs of this kind are still out there, invading our privacy. It's good to know that there are people out there, trying to fight this, but it seems rather hopeless.

YouTube:
This video was no longer available due to a copyright claim. Fits in with all the copyright talk we've had in various classes.

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Week 11 Readings & Muddiest Point

Reading Notes:

Web Search Engines, Part 1 & 2:
These articles look at Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft and how they provide
high quality answers to queries by crawling through the Web. It also
discussed indexing algorithms and techniques that could be used to speed up
searching.

Current Development OAI-PMH:
This explored how the Open Archives Initative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting is being used by various communities to find metadata relative
their specific needs. This was a lot of information to take in, but it's
good to know that this protocol has far exceeded its initial goals.

The Deep Web:
This discussed how most of the Web is buried, and the traditional search
engines aren't capable of retrieving content from the Deep Web. The only way
to get results from the Deep Web is to do a direct request with is a
laborious way of searching. What was most interesting to me was that
awareness of this content existing is nearly non-existent. I personally had
never heard of the Deep Web, and would very much like to try to searching on
it.

Muddiest Point:
I'm curious about how long PageRank has been around and if it caught on quickly. 
If Google invented it, it's got to be fairly new.

Assignment 6

I originally typed up HTML codes in Notepad for this assignment. I had a lot of trouble uploading it, so I started over using Google sites. Here is my new and working web site!

http://sites.google.com/site/dls84lis/

Week 10 Comments

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