Week 3 Reflections

This week we covered the concept of data at rest which is a term that can often refer to data stored on media devices such as laptops or external hard drives.  Reading more about this subject led me to learn that a large portion of data breeches occur from outside forces gaining physical access through a lost or stolen laptop rather then any actual hacking or encryption break.  This makes the idea of internet security funny in a way when the image portrayed in the movies as expert hackers making their way into secure systems when the truth is closer to the Apple employee who left the Iphone concept in a bar.  It is interesting to think that a lot of problems for data loss occur because of human error or simple mistakes rather then an actual malicious "hack."

Week 2 Reflections

Within the conferences this week we had to read about some emerging technologies and I selected to look deeper into Social Television.  It is a very interesting topic because it is a hybrid of two already existing technologies that are used in completely different ways.  This new emerging technology is looking to take both of these previous technologies and merge them into basically a virtual version of the "water cooler" or some other social gathering at which people talk about what happened on the latest episode of their favorite technology.  I already have some personal experience with this technology through the Boxee program although I don't use the program to its fullest as I barely use the social media aspects of the program.  The overall concept of the technology that I described above is also interesting to think about in the general concept as it shows how a new technology can emerge by trying to use an old technology or social event as a source of inspiration for new ideas.

Podcast Diary Entry

http://jasonrhub.podomatic.com/entry/2011-09-18T17_13_11-07_00

Week 1 Reflections

Hello

Hello,

My name is Jason.  I currently live in New York City, but I did my BA at College Park with a few classes from UMUC.  I hope that we will have a good time in this class together.

Jason