Steal This File Sharing Book

I thought this was a fun book to end off the presentations. Just looking at the front and back of the book was interesting and funny in itself. This book brought back a bunch of terminology from the first section of this course and related it to file sharing. The group did a good job in introducing these terminologies and connecting everything. After the group showed the video about file sharing and if your not aware of where your saving information it can be out there without you even knowing, like your social security numbers, passwords and many more personal information. I just think this topic is very interesting and its a good way to inform people about this and how it is more dangerous and damaging than they realize.

I wish there that there was a little more time for this group, because I would be curious in what other things he has to say about file sharing. But seems to be a really fun book!

A World Without Secrets

I thought both groups presented some good information on this book. I thought it was cool how they mentioned about the project done in Tampa, FL in regards of the facial recognition. Its one of those things that you never really think about and when you hear it being used that way you become wowed by it. I also thought the concept about telematics was very interesting. This technology just shows us where the future is heading and little things like this may creating more convenience in our lives. Being able to predict actions, like ice spots, before it appends would let drivers know whats on the road before it happens. I also agree with the motto of the book that was mentioned a lot throughout both presentations and that was "people only see what they want to and accept it". This is very true even our news cast are tailored in a way to increase ratings, by doing just this, or even through marketing products.

I also like the comparison that one of the groups did with the book "the Art of Deception" by Kevin Mitnick. That example about how Hollywood employees just gave out customer's information without really having any security procedures in placed shocked me and how easy doing something like that was. These two books definitely seemed to show a different aspect of privacy.