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3.5 Syllabus Content

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) || 1.4_intellectual_property 1.9_policies 2.6_pol_gov 3.5_per_public_com ||
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 * Date || Article || Comments || Tags ||
 * January 5th || WikiLeaks Julian Assange Arrested in London: Is it a Conspiracy? || 1. Who is Julian?
 * November 29th || WikiLeaks Hit with DoS Attack Before Documents Leaked || 1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to.

Politics and Employment

2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system.

WikiLeaks, Government, users

3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article

Privacy

4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems.

Wikileaks is simply a website that spread the hidden news to the public so it is like a non-profit website. They spread the news throughout the Internet. WikiLeaks knew and predicted such DoS attacks, they have been switching various IP address in order to keep running the website. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Users need to use encryption for preventing hackers. Using secure private network in order to protect your private network or make it even more authorized. Using firewall to protect your computer form unauthorized access || 3.5_Per_public_com ||