In IT We Trust

The course is over and no themes left for writing... So I grabbed my chromebook and started to experiment with flashing again... and then something went totally wrong and ended with unbricking.

I chose the article, because the topic must be considered very seriously. As a father of two daughters, I see how Youtube channels influence on their choices. The article give us understanding of the termin and how the influencers could be divided by methods of their content sharing. Authors thoughts about why the influencers are followed and how they influence on youngsters. It was also interesting to read about influencers ethics and ad in their posts. I agree with author that the blogger must be honest with content receiver about ad, media proposed on the commercial basis and "forwarded" media sources and must always bear in mind that they thoughts reflect in content users. There are also some figures for statistics fans. Overall the article is well balanced and worth to read. In my opinion, the topic can be extended and give us vision to the other side of coin. As far as it became clear enough, that the easiest target for influence is children and youngsters

The last topic of course. I still don't know if I'll proceed the blog or will kill it. The problem is that it is easy to write when the theme is defined, but it is hard to define the theme by myself. What I got from this topic, is more clear vision of some aspects, like open source or definition of hacker society, or rebuilding of my behaviour in net, but still the ethics in common is so unclear... And the problem is not in the course. In my opinion, it gave a lot, but the problem is in ethics definition itself. The code of conduct must give us understanding of good manners in society, or company. However everyone defines by himself what is good for him, so as every company defines their code and so on. So in common it looks like every society measures the "level of good" by their needs or targets. Still we have to stay a human in every situation... As the last task I need to analyze the code of conduct of any IT company. As fan of Open Source and alternatives

There are two ways to hide yourself - to hide and be quite or to be in a crowd. I think the same can be said about security risks in IT. Usually we hear about huge attacks, when companies lose a lot of money. Everyone talks about them. Companies send new regulation to workers and so on, and so on... As result we taught to withstand huge and separate attacks on corporations. From the other side, there is a silent enemy, which is everywhere and basically we do nothing with it. It is so common for us to get SPAM messages, calls, offers to invest money into International Corporation of Nothing, promises of huge income, which we can't imagine and wan't see, proposals to install new super-tool and win a lottery, that a part humanity(which more or less educated in IT) don't even react on such mails and calls, while another part is looking for some luck. Therefore the amount of victims grows every year and this evident enemy holds positions. (spam and phishing reports) .

* Stephen Hawking  "If you don't recognize my voice..." - so started he the message, and it sounds sad and funny at the same time. Funny, because it is hard to not recognize this voice. For me, the synthetic voice with metal accent can be associated with one of the greatest mind of our time only. Sad that he's gone... and that there is still place for such deceases in the world. Maybe the technology is not fresh, but it was made by Intel in collaboration with Stephen Hawking. It not only gives people possibilities to use computer, it gives the possibility to communicate. Initially it was an upgrade for the Stephen Hawking's hardware for writing. For decades he used the stick on wheelchair armrest to choose words and commands by his thumb, but the nerve, that allowed him to use the thumb degraded and by 2008 the had was too weak to use the systems mounted in armrests. The system was updated with use of "cheek switch", attached to his glasses.