Final Project: Internet Surveillance

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Origin of Internet Surveillance

• There is substantial proof that US intelligence services have been observing the internet since it was referred to as the "internet" for the first time.
• It was a significant component of their occupations throughout the 1960s and 1970s (Novak, 2015).
• Admittedly, these were network protocols developed in large part by American intelligence services.
• Agencies such as the NSA, CIA, and the UK's GCHQ all had a keen interest in networked computing technologies and were "pioneers."

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What is the Issue About?

• Examining the networks and databases that intelligence organizations utilized internally might help explain how they may have been plugged into the ARPANET.
• Beginning in the mid-1960s, a database known as COINS (Community On-line Information System) emerged (Novak, 2015).
• COINS was a star network, which meant that it consisted of several terminals connecting to a single central database.
• By the late 1970s, COINS II had been formed as an NSA network for information exchange (Novak, 2015).
• COINS II was not just an ARPANET clone, in the sense that it employed packet switching, but it also had ARPANET portals.

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Who is Impacted by the Issue?

• In its own series of Cold War era volumes (now declassified but extensively censored), the NSA makes a passing reference to COINS:
• However, this is a very unusual occurrence. 
• COINS and COINS II are mentioned in a few declassified places, most notably in a 1982 thesis at the Navy Postgraduate School by Thomas R. Malarkey (Novak, 2015).
• The document's primary point is that COINS II, the NSA's covert information sharing network, was directly connected to the ARPANET prior to 1982.

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What is Important to Know About Them?

• The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had developed a number of databases for the intelligence community with tiered security access.
• The DIA approached the US Intelligence Board to arrange for a security audit of the system in order to get accreditation for SI and TK [signals and imagery intelligence] information.
• The NSA and other intelligence community officials, with the assistance of military contractors, complied.
• By the time the assaults concluded, the infiltration had been so extensive that a penetrator operating from a remote remote terminal had effectively taken over the system.
• DIA was never accredited, and the exercise's outcomes convinced many in NSA that multilayer security could never be implemented.

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Assess How Society Affects Internet Spying

• A few years back, a series of exposes regarding government security services' pervasive eavesdropping of Internet communications struck shivers across the digital world (Donck, 2015).
• It reignited discussions over the digital era's right to privacy.
• While advancements in communication technology have expanded people's ability to communicate thoughts and knowledge across borders, they have also created opportunities for governments to monitor users' personal interactions.
• Mass surveillance threatens free information flow and privacy, and undermines the belief that users have in the network.

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How has Critically Analyzing your Issue/Event Altered the Way You View the World?

• It is important to avoid voicing views online.
• It is important to avoid religious and political discussions (MUJOVIĆ, 2018).
• It is important to agree with the status quo.

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• It is crucial to adjust privacy settings.
• Internet tracking blockers are a necessity.
• It is important to stay private while using Wi-Fi

How can Studying Technology Inform Your Understanding of the Next Big Topic of Study in Your Field or Profession In the Next Five To Ten Years?

• The next big topic of study in the technology is Artificial Intelligence.
• When combined with high quality educational resources and training, artificial intelligence may help students learn more effectively and quickly (Jimenez & Boser, 2021). 
• Additionally, AI technologies may assist pupils in regaining their bearings quicker by alerting instructors to issues that the human eye cannot notice.

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How does critically analyzing technology add value to how you interact with people and understand social or global issues or events?

• Although the personal computer and other electronics altered my contact with society, they did not seem to have had such a profound effect on human sociology until the advent of mobile computers. 
• Mobile gadgets revolutionized my life by virtue of their inherent ability to keep one linked to the digital world through a little, easy-to-carry device (Wardynski, 2019).
• All technology systems, by their very nature, have impacted human behaviors and relationships in some bad ways, but have also offered unparalleled chances for positively altering human behaviors.

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Recommend Strategies for Using this Kind of Critical Analysis for Meeting Your Personal and Professional Goals

• Continuous learning.
• Making the right decisions.
• Listening and evaluating unpopular opinions
• Avoiding analysis paralysis.
• Self-analysis.

Consider how Technology can be Used to Address the Day-to-Day Responsibilities or Questions Faced by Practitioners in Your Field or Discipline

• Students benefit from technology because it makes material more readily available, speeds up the learning process, and offers engaging ways to put what they've learned into practice. 
• Students may learn more about a variety of topics and get a better grasp of more complex ideas, especially in the STEM fields. 
• Still, children learn better with guidance.

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Benefits and Challenges of Addressing Issues in Technology

• Boosting productivity.
• Boosting efficiency.
• Increasing inventiveness and originality.
• Boosting Productivity. 
• The objective of technology has always been to create more with a less investment of time and money.

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How Critically Analyzing Technology Adds Value to Interactions With People in Personal and Professional Contexts.

• Human relationships have been fundamentally transformed by the development of computer systems and the Internet, compared to the development of non-computer technical systems. 
• There are both positive and negative outcomes to the modern-day shift in how people connect with each other through smart applications and the Internet/WiFi (Wardynski, 2019). 
• Because to the widespread availability of Internet-capable smart gadgets, regular people and professionals may now stay in close contact no matter where they are on our planet (assuming that WiFi is available). 

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References

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• Donck, F. (2015). Does A Digital Society Have To Become A Surveillance Society? Internet Society. https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/05/does-a-digital-society-have-to-become-a-surveillance-society/
• Jimenez, L., & Boser, U. (2021). Future of Testing in Education: Artificial Intelligence. Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/future-testing-education-artificial-intelligence/#:~:text=challenges%20of%20AI-
• MUJOVIĆ, V. (2018). How Does Government Surveillance Influence Self Censorship Online. Le VPN. https://www.le-vpn.com/government-surveillance-influence-behavior/
• Novak, M. (2015). A History of Internet Spying, Part 2. Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/a-history-of-internet-spying-part-2-1686760364
• Wardynski, D. J. (2019). What Are the Effects of Technology on Human Interaction? Www.brainspire.com. https://www.brainspire.com/blog/what-are-the-effects-of-technology-on-human-interaction

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