Science business

It's definitely sure that this business is creating digital divide. Articles and journals which are expensive are not accessible for poor countries and digital divide enlarges. I really like Soros activity in Open Access Initative and also I sort of understand the opposites. Ofcourse if professors spend lot of time by writing those articles they need to get payed etc. This cannot be totally free, but can be supported. I would see it as opening doors for universities and other learning institutes for gaining read access with lower bugets.

Short review of the GNU General Public License.

The idea of GNU GPL is very good and offer lot of freedom to all software developers. Many commercial giants like Microsoft etc. are against this and are fighting with all their legal power to stop the spread of GNU GPL. Its very clearly understandable that Microsoft is trying to prevent the understanding that software can be free to use and share. The main issue is with the drivers for devices which Microsoft doesn't tolerate. On the otherhand you can always modify driverfiles in GNU GPL systems like BSD.

Blog about a good case of social engineering

Social engineering in real life is actually very easy to do if someone knows the background and plays on the human naive thinking about the current emergency or situation. I would put it as everything is possible and people don't tend to be not too paranoid on these kinds of cases. For example it's quite easy to scam bus control officers with just playing fool foreign person and start talking with them some language they definitely don't know.

How to avoid social engineering attempts? In real life there has to be knowhow for the people who are working in these kind of areas, where it could happen that someone can do tricks with them.

Find and blog about an illustrative case of hacktivism.

In Estonia there is a company Rove Digital which could be established in reasons hacktivism. Arvutimaailms journalist Holger Roonemaa has even doubts that Rove Digital boss Vladimir Tšaštšin is possibly a spy or an agent of Russian government and threat to Estonian internal security. Rove Digital is suspected to lead a huge group of zombi computers and to attack different websites as Trendmicro and Fsecure have annonced.

Choose a minority group and describe how they can make use of Internet to reduce alienation and prejudice.

I remember very good article from postimees online where lesbian mother didn't recieve support bonus from local government. All different online media sources were writing about it and finally she got a positive feedback from local government.

Write a short blogged analysis about the hacker ethic found in today's world (is it there of not, how much of it etc).

The most powerful hackers ethic fond in todays world is definitely sharing habbit. People are very much sharing things in the web. Sharing has turned into fashion what everybody want to do (youtube, social web etc.). Also in the net new visionary projects are always free to use, even for commercial use (wordpress, mambo etc.). This is very widely used and promoted.

Browse the Jargon File. Write a small blog entry about a term/definition which was the most intriguing for you.

Things Hackers Detest and Avoid

This is very easy to understand and remained still very common sense. This is very clear that hackers doesn't love microsoft and other commercial software providers. Everything, what is more or less commercialy licensed must be avoided. As well as mainstreem things - easy listening music, films and mainstream culture. What was really funny that hackers tend to avoid cobol and basic..:)