Spoofed Emails II
My passwords are pretty complicated, yet somehow I kept getting emails from “myself” selling Rolex watches. (Someone was spoofing my account.) I called my hosting provider and allowed them to access my email. They reviewed the information and blocked the IP address. To be on the safe side, yet again, I changed my complicated password…
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TED Talks - Jonathan Zittrain
So, I found this video to be very interesting. Jonathan talks about how much of the internet is reliant on people volunteering themselves, whether it be fixing problems, editing pages, or giving free rides or housing. It just goes to show how open and free the Internet is to everybody, no having to rely on…
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Tumblr
Highlights pulled from Statista, the Statistics Portal “As of April 2017, [Tumblr] had surpassed 345 million registered accounts. As of the same period, the website had almost 738 million unique visitors worldwide. The United States accounted for the majority of visits to the social media platform. Currently, Tumblr users have generated over 148 billion posts…
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TED Talks - Cyber Awe
An interesting TED talk by Clay Shirky on “How Social Media Can Make History”. He discusses how with the rise of the Internet media has changed conversation and is becoming more of a site of coordiation, as well as how consumers are also becoming producers in this new media landscape. He also covers how social…
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