2.6+Politics+and+government

• To shut down communications within the people of Egypt to stop them from organizing protests against the government using social networks as a tool of communication.
 * Strand 2.6 Politics and government ||
 * Date || Article || Comments || Tags ||
 * January 2011 || Egypt's Internet Block Aims at Social Media - PCWorld || 1) Why did Egypt block the internet?

2) How has the internet supported civil disobedience? • Many of the protests were organised with the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, which helped everyone to organise the protest with people they didn’t know.

3) What does it mean when the US says social media is a fundamental right? • US is saying that social media is a fundamental right, therefore should not be blocked or shut down, because it has become an important source of communication, and people have the right to know what’s going on in the world. || 2.6_gov_control || I think social media opens the door to freedom to a large extent, mainly because it is a common form of communication worldwide. It allows many people from different area connect which is the result of the big protests. However, it can also shut down people from freedom because the government can use social media to monitor people and also cut down information form outside whenever they want to. || 2.6_gov_control || Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and Internet activist. He is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open government. 2. What is WikiLeaks? WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submission of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. 3. Describe cyber attacks A cyber attack is an attempt to undermine or compromise the function of a computer based system or attempts to track the online movements of individuals without their permission. Attacks of this type may be undetectable to the end user or network administrator, or lead to such a total disruption of the network that none of the users can perform even the most rudimentary of tasks. 4. How did politics impact WikiLeaks? Wikileaks is a website where it divulges political, diplomatic secret information. Wikileaks exposed the corrupted parts of politics. Politics and governments were threaten by Wikileaks and therefore conspired to arrest the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. - Protect citizens from knowing the secrets about politics - They keep find track on information 5. How did WikiLeaks fight back? Protesting way back Julian being treated (Letting attacks to each other) || 2.6 Polictics and Government || A VPN means virtual private network and what it does is that it send you data over the Internet in a secure connection. It travels packet over unprotected network in a secured manner. It provides you tunnel which secures your data and send it encrypted form over the Internet.
 * February 2011 || Libya turns off the Internet and the Massacres begin | ZDNet || 1) To what extent do you think social media opens the door to freedom?
 * January 2011 || WikiLeaks Julian Assange Arrested in London: Is it a Conspiracy? || 1. Who is Julian?
 * 3월.11 || China Tightens Electronic Censorship - NYTimes.com || 1) Describe VPN.

2) How does a proxy work? By using a proxy the web browser window is then coded as part of the proxy site address and not the real website the surfer is visiting. Any information cached in the temporary folder is that of the proxy, not the users. This means the user is not traced at all and the information is kept hidden. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/3786946

3) List a proxy you find useful. Tor Trycatchme anonsafe

4) When would you use a proxy? When you want to hide your IP from anyone. It is a good idea to use it while online shopping, accessing bank websites, and putting personal information.

5) Explain: Google has "played a role in manufacturing social disorder". This means that Google has been the source of creating all the social disorder in the real world. Examples of these social disorders include the Libyan Protests as well as the Egypt Protests. These are named as social disorders. And Google, who feeds information to the various organizations and governments as well as provide social networking interfaces play a role in the community to communicate with each other in order to plan these social disorder events, such as the protests to overthrow the government. || 2.6_gov_control || Because shutting down the internet means shutting down their ability to communicate freely which is inhumane, corrupt, and immoral. The impact on the economy alone would be reason to never implement such measure. || 2.6_gov_control_use_info ||
 * Jan. 2011 || News Obama Kill Switch: What If There’s a War in America? || 1) Why shouldn't America allow a kill switch?