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On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto would change the world forever. On this date, Nakamoto birthed the bitcoin network, after mining the first block on the chain, sometimes referred to as the “genesis” block. For some time after its release Bitcoin was mostly unknown outside the coding community, while coders made minor adjustments to the …
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In DCI 180, we cover two topics more than anything else, social media and the behavior of major tech companies. If I could add one piece to include int the curriculum it would be the final episode of Patriot Act’s Volume 1, titled Content Moderation and Free Speech. Patriot Act is a Netflix web series …
On June 17, 1972, five men, found with rolls of tape, bugging equipment, and thousands of dollars in cash, were arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. The five men were members of the Committee to Re-Elect The President, aka CREEP, which led to a series of controversies about President Nixon’s connection to/knowledge …
Snapchat, an extremely popular social media platform, boasts about having a more transparent privacy policy than the other big tech corporations, such as Google and Apple. Snapchat claims that their agreement is “blissfully free of the legalese that often clouds these documents” which differs from most companies that want you to carelessly check the box …
While the internet offers us an amazing platform to share information and communicate with friends, are we paying enough attention to the information we are sharing and how easy it is anyone access this(sometimes private) information? Today I am going to demonstrate this notion by cyber-stalking one of my professors, Mary Abdoney. So without further …
Blog Post 1 From answering Snapchats to chatting with my Amazon Alexa, I tracked every single one of my interactions with the internet over the past 24 hours. Going through this experience, while sometimes tedious, has shed light on just how prevalent a role the internet plays in our lives. While people traditionally think of …
