Spy Software
Summary
Spy software, or spyware, is software that records information and or activity on a computer and then sends the information to the person or company that installed it. While these programs have been around since the early days of Windows, there has been a recent wave of newer applications of them. The newer programs far outstrip their predecessors in what they do, who installs them, and how they are used. So what exactly do these programs do, who installs them, and should they be a cause for concern?
The list of spyware programs is long and growing longer by the day. Investigator, Spector, and Cyber Snoop are some of the more well known ones, but there are countless others. Some common features include recording of emails, passwords, chat dialogues, web surfing, and even pictures from the infected computers web cam. Companies often install these programs on the systems in their offices to monitor employee usage. This helps ensure that employees are not surfing the web or writing personal emails when they should be working. Recently these programs have been marketed to parents for monitoring of computer usage of their children and for monitoring of spouses.
Companies have the right to use these programs in the office; there is no real ethical dispute of their use in the previously mentioned areas. If the usage of spyware remained limited to these areas there would be nothing to worry about. Unfortunately this is not the case. Some file transfer programs include various “buddy” programs that load ads or in some way try to be helpful to the user of the computer. And others, such as AudioGalaxy, have spyware imbedded in them that actively records information much like Investigator and sends the inf...
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Champlain was born in 1574 in Brouage, to a family of marines and sea captains. He was the son of Antonio de Champlain ( a captain in the French marines), and his mother’s maiden name is Marguerite Leroy. His hometown had many big ports and ships, so he was very connected to boats when he was little. He had very little education, but he was able to become very educated by himself. He knew a lot of things because he taught them to himself. While he was still young, he entered the army.
...rade in the present Canada region attracted the investors who were given land and security. The settlers were to venture in farming and trade. Champlain was appointed as the Governor of the New French because of his achievements. His tactic of forming alliances with the native tribes gave the settlers much ease to explore the North America region. The natives taught the settlers how to survive in the harsh conditions in the region, hunting for food and further exploration of the region.
One of the objections states that the argument makes the mistake of inferring that because each member of a series must have a cause, the series itself must have a cause. According to Bertrand Russell this objection follows the case of the Fallacy of Composition in which Russell claims it makes sense to ask who any human being’s mother is, yet it is senseless to ask who the mother of the human race is. However, Rowe counters Russell’s objection by stating that finding the reason for any series may be difficult, but not meaningless. Rowe argues that asking why a set has the members it has rather than none at all may turn out to hold no answer, but it doesn't mean that the question is
Internet is advancing every day, parents have no idea what their kids are doing in cyberspace and are contemplating the idea of spyware. In the article, “The Undercover Parent” by Harlan Coben, he argues the idea of parents putting spyware on kids’ computer is a good idea to keep the child safe. Many American parents have no idea what happens in cyberspace; sex, bullying, and drugs. Parents are torn between protecting their child with spyware and allowing the child to have privacy. Coben uses his friends’ personal experiences to support his argument without leaving room for counterarguments. By using strong emotional appeals, weak qualifiers, and sugary word choice Coben creates a weak argument that lacks persuasion.
This objection towards the Principle of Sufficient Reason also brings up an intriguing point. If the validity of PSR is at question, how can we even consider the Cosmological Argument as a viable argument? The premises are sound when supported by PSR, but if the principle is false, does it not invalidate the whole argument? While this might seem like a valid response to the argument, we must consider that the exact point could also be made in the opposite way, though. If we cannot prove that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is true or false, how can we know that the Cosmological Argument isn’t a valid one?
Humans can never know for the certain why the universe was created or what caused it but, we can still create arguments and theories to best explain what might have created the universe. The cosmological argument is another idea to prove the existence of god. Many philosophers debate wheatear the cosmological argument is valid. The cosmological argument starts off quite simply: whatever exists must come from something else. Nothing is the source of its own existences, nothing is self-creating []. The cosmological argument states at some point, the cause and effect sequence must have a beginning. This unexpected phenomenal being is god. According to the argument, god is the initial start of the universe as we know it. Though nothing is self-creating cosmological believers say god is the only being the is self –created. Aquinas, an Italian philosopher, defended the argument and developed the five philosophical proofs for the existence of god knows as, the “Five Ways”.[]. In each “way” he describes his proof how god fills in the blanks of the unexplainable. The first way simply states that, things in motion must be put in motion by something. The second was is efficient because, nothing brings its self into existence. The third is, possibility and necessity [!]. Aqunhias’ has two more ‘ways’ but for the purpose of this essay I won’t be focusing on them heavily. These ways have started philosophers to debate and question his arguments ultimately made the cosmological argument debatable. The cosmological argument is however not a valid argument in explaining the existence of god because the conclusions do not logically follow the premises.
Wars, complete with spies and lawyers masquerading as foot soldiers, rage ceaselessly in American homes. Some are as foreign as Samsung and Apple’s technology infringements, making headlines with fines and court declarations. Others deliver mail warnings against infringement for tracked, pirated media. But a more widespread and unnoticed battle grips the fields, supermarkets, and kitchens of America.
Information can be gathered about someone because of what they make public on social media, this includes: making a profile that includes personal information, tagging a location, or posting photos that capture personal details. However, data can also be gathered without one knowing. Information is gathered on store credit card holders every time they make a purchase. “Inside such a card a computer chip is buried that records every item purchased along with a variety of personal information of the buyer. This information obtained from the card enables marketing companies to do targeted marketing to specific individuals because the buying habits as well as other personal information of people are known” (Britz, 1996). There are certain types of software that can be considered harmless, for example “Cookies are small text files with unique ID tags that are embedded in a web browser and saved on the user’s hard drive” (Bidgoli, 2015) Another type of software that doesn’t have malicious intent is adware, which is simply a marketing tactic that collects data about internets users to determine which advertisements to put in each user’s web browser. Unfortunately, there are also types of software that do have malicious intent. One of these is Spyware, which is a type of software that gathers information about users, without their consent while they browse
Ever since day one, people have been developing and creating all sorts of new methods and machines to help better everyday life in one way or another. Who can forget the invention of the ever-wondrous telephone? And we can’t forget how innovative and life-changing computers have been. However, while all machines have their positive uses, there can also be many negatives depending on how one uses said machines, wiretapping in on phone conversations, using spyware to quietly survey every keystroke and click one makes, and many other methods of unwanted snooping have arisen. As a result, laws have been made to make sure these negative uses are not taken advantage of by anyone.
At this point, is important to note that Big data itself does not represent more large data set of structured and unstructured data; nowadays bigger than ever and in continuous expansion that can be defined as the "problem of big data" (Cox M. & Ellsworth D., 1997). The ability to organize this "problem" given certain parameters and to be able to build a model or representation of a reality taking care of the existing patterns and relationships to find the true value that lies hidden in data is what can be defined as Data mining (DM) (Kadiyala, S. S., & Srivastava, A., 2011).
Computers are main technological features that allow criminals to step into unsuspecting victims lives. With a simple piggy-backing program hackers are able to track every keystroke made by the victim. One such program is called spyware, not to be confused with adware, which is often referred to interchangeably with spyware, but is potentially harmless (Louis 15). Spyware, hidden within downloaded software, implants itself deep within a computer’s hard drive, allowing it to track every move made by the user (Louis 16). Once inside a system, spyware can gather e-mail addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers.
Big Data, Predictive Analytics and Data Mining have other important applications that do not embody direct impact over managerial strategy in a company; nonetheless, they represent a significant tool in society. These include the successful use of Big Data in astronomy (e.g., the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of telescopic information), politics (e.g., a political campaign focused on people most likely to support a candidate based on social networks or web searches) (Murdoch and Detsky, 2013), and education, where Data Mining offers educational institutions additional approaches to improve graduation rates of students, students' success and learning outcomes, through prediction, cluster analysis, association and classification by info-data informatics tools (Beikzadeh, Phon-Amnuaisuk, and Delavari, 2008).
Data mining has emerged as an important method to discover useful information, hidden patterns or rules from different types of datasets. Association rule mining is one of the dominating data mining technologies. Association rule mining is a process for finding associations or relations between data items or attributes in large datasets. Association rule is one of the most popular techniques and an important research issue in the area of data mining and knowledge discovery for many different purposes such as data analysis, decision support, patterns or correlations discovery on different types of datasets. Association rule mining has been proven to be a successful technique for extracting useful information from large datasets. Various algorithms or models were developed many of which have been applied in various application domains that include telecommunication networks, market analysis, risk management, inventory control and many others
Espionage is the secret gathering of information on rival countries for military purposes. Espionage can be used in business, military, economic or political decisions however; it is commonly employed government for defensive tactics. Espionage or spying is illegal in many nations however, it gains profits from agencies to protect the secrecy of information that is desired.
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