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In my opinion these people should be picked up and the key thrown away. I know they are not taking someone's physical life but how about their mental life? Look at what happened to the one young man who had pictures doctored to where it looked like he was having a homosexual encounter. He lost his girlfriend. These people are no better than a murderer. Many people have been destroyed by groups like this. All I can say is be careful when you are on the internet.

My daughter has a my space and she ended up getting a message from her internet provider saying some of her accounts had been broken into. She spent about 10 hours one day getting this problem cleaned up. She was very lucky. All I can say is don't ever make your information public.

EIA Chapter 6

There are two things I would like to touch on out of this chapter. I have had a trojan horse appear on my virus check before and all I knew was it needed to be gotten rid of. The amount of problems it can cause or lead to messed with my mind. I have checked sights that were questionable, now I know better. E-mails will not opened unless I know who sent them. Even then you run the risk that someone else is using another person's e-mail. Hopefully that won't be the case.

The second area that intrigued me was online voting. Are we thinking totally crazy? Voting online would open up more problems than the hanging chad problem in Florida.

Sure,you can come up with a few advantages but are they worth the risks? You could save money, votes could be counted quicker, and people who couldn't get to the polls could vote if they had a computer, but are these good enough reasons when you open many security risks.

A Web site hosting an election could be an obvious target for a DDoS attack(distribute denial of service). It would also be possible for an attacker to fool a user into thinking he was hooked up to a vote server when in actuallity he was connected to a phony server run by the attacker. The attacker could ask for credentials and then use them to vote on the real server. Things could get completely out of hand. The right hackers could control elections that would affect our nation.

Granted the voting system needs adjusting but online is not the answer.

EIA Chapter 5

In my opinion, big brother has too much freedom in invading our privacy. Even though wiretaps and bugs are sometimes needed to apprehend criminals, investigators abuse this many times. Instead of just listening in on conversations of the suspect, police have tapped into the trunk lines into hotels and listened to conversations of all the hotel guests who used the phone.

Is this right? I do not think so. Unless we are engaged in a conversation with a person we know is doing something illegal , what we say should reach no one elses ears except them. I do understand after 911 the Patriot Act was needed to improve our security but they need to be leaving the common people alone. We are becoming a paranoid society with the fact what we say at anytime could come back and haunt us.

People need to be confident their privacy will be upheld. I teach PE and Health and I totally agree with Gina Graham Scott when she says, "If people did not have privacy, they would have to wear their public face at all times. Doing this could be damaging to their psychological health." We need to be able to make comments without worrying about who will hear them and what could happen if they did.

People need their time without big brother watching over our shoulder.