Hackers, and Dark Site Of The Net
Who are hackers and what do they do? Hackers are people who breaks into peoples computer without their knowledge and delete, edits and even installs things without the ones permission. Usually hackers hacks ones computer, email, website to steal information and passwords without their knowledge.
Hacking = Unlawful use of computer & network properties
The author has mention a few things on this week reading called "Civic Hacking". Where the author tries to emphasis that people are not interested on politcs or moving politics on online. It is one of the topic that less interest them. I agree that if the person is not online how do we aspect or know it for sure that the person will reply our mail. I would like to share a personal story on this. Two weeks back I was sick and I was in bed. One of my classmates asked all of us to send our personal pictures to her email to make a book with sticky notes for a lecturer who is leaving the country. Since I was not able to go online and check my facebook message I did not get message. The next day I was told by my peers that my picture and note was not on the book because I fail to send her one. These shows how important does the media plays and takes control of our lives these days.
Well there are many arguments that hacking is legal or illegal issue. One side hacking is legal because it used as a hacking tool to test the security of a network or pc etc. In the illegal side criminals used to steal information, passwords, make free calls or use free internet. I would say Wikileaks is an impeccable example to show the relation between hackers and authority. Personally, hacking is good for democracy. The author also mention that hacking is an e-democracy activity, it is does not help democracy within entire political system, which means hacking only does matter to online civilians who interested in politics . the author also said that
‘if you are not interested on politics, electronic politics will not help”.
According to his argument, it is not necessary to punish hackers because they are target to small group of civilian. Which is just a small group of them in our society.
Types of Hacking
Website Hacking : This term denotes as to Collapses the information from any website to be hacked and Make changes in the information on this website.
Email Hacking : This term denotes as to collect business data and private information stored in email of any person.
Network Hacking : This term denotes to hack a network.
Password Hacking :This term denotes to hack any password protected data by guess password with password hint.
Wikileaks
It is a non profit organisation that reveals secrets and hidden messagges.Wikileaks' activities have earned it praise from some free-speech quarters and harsh criticism, or worse, from a variety of national and institutional interests.
Hi, Meg.
ReplyDeleteTo me, politic is bored, even there are now "migrating" slowly online I guess, still I am not going to read it. Unless it is really relevant to me.Like, everyone is talking about the topic, but I am out of the conversation, maybe I am going to read it further via online.
Anyway, in my opinion, everything had the pro & con. Why the gods gives us the ability of thinking? To me, the main reason is to let us differentiate what's good or wrong DEPEND ON the matter.
For example, a little boy get punished by the parent.
It is because he did something wrong?
Maybe.
But, there are probably the parent misunderstood the boy, because the parent think he is wrong and they don't listen to the boy.
Most of us is like that.
Agree with me?
Therefore, do see something with different angle.
Yes Serene i totally agree with you!!!
ReplyDeleteHi meg,
ReplyDeleteI'm personally not interested to politic, but I'm kind of like knowing what going on in this country, for my parents, they didn't know how to online, all the information from newspaper, the newspaper already so call "filter" all the information.
But for us, we get the information throughout the internet, as we know internet spread news faster than old media. We get the first hand news on internet,from news's website or facebook, I watch TV news quite often, but all the news i'm already see from Facebook. Well, as well go through Malaysia's politic, from Internet, politic tend to become more "transparency", people can voice out here and there..
so i agree with you " hacking is good for democracy."
Hi Siew Mun,
ReplyDeleteYes i would say the technology has developed over the years and we are currently dependent on the new media more than we use too. But our parents still prefers the old media because they are comfortable with it for years therefore they are not giving a chance to the new media.
"Hacking is an e-democracy activity, it is does not help democracy within entire political system, which means hacking only does matter to online civilians who interested in politics ."
ReplyDeleteI agree with your article, Meg. I, for one do not agree to hacking or wikileaks, as I believe it is unneccessary and only causes further chaos and chatter. Hacking, or publishing of information not meant for the eyes of the public - has a reason why its secretive. Firstly, people have to understand that secrecy is protection, and that the organization/government is doing whatever it is to fix/amend problems. Having someone hacked into your website, you disrupt the system, causing other users's temporary downtime. Many people are affected, time is lost, and reputations are hurt. Furthermore, it is threatening to the democracy and peace we have been given. To support hacking is to wage war against the peace we have fought for yesterday for the future.