Mtg 1/24: Tue-11-Jan-2022

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Good morning.
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morning morning everyone.
My name.
So. i'm going to ask you to do is. rename yourselves. So. On my zoom client there's if I hover over a picture or my rectangle. there's dot dot dot. I didn't realize I turned on a waiting room here. So i'm having to admit people.
waiting room.
So where there's dot dot dot. over my rectangle I click on that it gives me the option to rename. So i'd like you to do is your name yourself to be. So that. The name you'd like people to call you in class is first and then parentheses. Put your your vagina email ID.
we're good Mike.
Okay. So make sure your MIC is off and you come in. Okay, so, if you look at mine, you can see. My now my name is now darryl. And then in parentheses http ti n G D, which is my. ID for my you Jana email address.
So this will help to.
identify you. To each other and to me. and Now Elsa helps me to keep track of. A view so i'm going to do. So i'm not going to post your names on the website, but i'm going to keep track of the comments you make. In. chats and. And in zoom meetings. And i'll use your your email ID to do that. So i'm. Let me back up maybe. Okay, so i'm going to talk about attendance as well in a minute here. So, my name is Darrell happening i'm a professor in the department of computer science. Some of you may know me, looking at the class list. I saw a few familiar names. So you're welcome to call me Darrell or Dr happening asked you to pick one of those two. And if you're if you. I suppose in the zoom transcript like sometimes appears Dr happening. But that's only fine to me, I think. anyway. So, how was your Christmas vacation and new year's. yeah mine was short to. Welcome back to the winter semester for the New Year. Okay, so let me share my screen. Okay, so can you see my screen, I think you can't.
yep yeah.
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OK so. The syllabus link is from last year, so I. I will get that updated by. Our next meeting. i'll make sure that all of these are current links, by next meeting. Okay, so. A few things aren't. Working yet. Taken classroom before I made some improvements and i've upgraded to. bootstrap version 5.2. So. Anyway, so here's. here's our list of meetings for the Semester. And then my semester schedule. So we have our class here. Tuesdays and Thursdays, so we have 24 meetings all together over the Semester. i'm going to have office hours intend to noon. coloring is a little bit off here track that down. And then, also from 230 to 330. on Tuesdays and Thursdays said seem. Like a good. Okay, good availability of office, my office time. Okay, so if those don't work, then we can coordinate by email to. find a time that works. Okay, so i'm going to have some more links. For you here. listed the topics you're going to cover. we'll talk about that. next day, as well as assignments and exams. So my feeling. Is that we don't need to have a midterm exam. And we can do a final exam at the end of the Semester. So i'm. that's my plan anyway and we'll talk about my plan for the Semester. On Thursday. Okay. So here for our list of meetings. Sorry, it was wondering why it wasn't updated.
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Okay, so this is the page web page like this for all our meetings. And i've added. Some navigation here. Trying that out so. If. You have questions or comments about my. about the website, let me know. and i'll address them as quickly as I can. So for the meetings. So we'll have an outline for what we're going to do today. And then these other items are following the class. So if there's some media some pictures screen captures that I take during this class or some other bits of. Other photos or. Things. Things well it's maybe a PDF or PNG file or something like that it comes up. i'll include them here and they'll appear. Under the media heading. The transcripts i'm going to post. transcripts from zoom. With. From from our audio transcript. So those are sometimes interesting to look at how zoom. translates. conversations and attacks the pretty good, but not always. And then we also transfer the chat session. So, like I said i'm not going to post your name so i'm going to. And pre process them so that. you're given. An identifier for the during the transcript. But, all I can keep. I can use still use the data to. keep track of your participation. So. There will be some marks participation, the Semester. And so. engagement in meetings by. posting things in chat and using a microphone. Heaven forbid. or turn on your camera well as. encourage people to turn on their camera if you'd like to do that, but. that's not something that's easily. managed Donna use it as a club either. So maybe we can do is. At the end of class, we can. Wave turn on cameras and we're. not something we do in the factory or science meeting so it's a nice way to stay connected. That makes sense and then responses so i'm given the opportunity to write a response. To each meeting. By the end of the day meeting. And then i'll collect those. And post them on the website anonymously under. different headings. And then lastly. And i'm using a reiki. and One in your courses so it's not going to be available to the world. That what. So this is not a new idea. For me, but this is a different execution level. So I created a wiki page for each meeting. and My going to. encourage you to. Take the source material that we collect here. Media transcripts responses. And edit them into the wiki. And then not. To that and. break out discussions and so forth, things that come up in class. and put them into. The forum for the wiki. OK so again for details of that in the second year. So here's a list of meetings, which is a copy of. My web the. Go to my website so it's the same. Really meeting so. So there's one place to go for each meeting. That page will. Have all the. All the material on. OK, so now. let's go to attendance. Now let's use this other link here. Kenya nice student view on. So let me. switch back to that belong in the student view and we just finished two things here. Okay, so this is the wiki that setup. So it's a collaborative wiki. So that means you can all. Continued. So this is this allows html. But the thing is. To make new pages. So I made a list so I made a index page for meetings there. You can go back to one. So let me just show you how. So you can do. That a link to a new page. Differences put them inside double brackets like that. So when I. made the link, there were. vindicated they want to link to a page. At this point, that page doesn't exist, so if I click on that. You can see it's an Alex in a different color. And click on that. first option I get is going to be the create the page. So, like you, that. Oh wow okay good so somebody already beat me to it. So this is the collaborative part of it. Okay. alright. So we're going to say is here meetings. So I said that each page. Link will be going to. And then i'm. i've created groups working class. So that was my next piece to talk about it. So in this list of side, made a list of classroom groups. And I made. A tactical error here, I suppose. So this list is generated by your courses. That included included student numbers. So. I put in one they're actually probably whoops. I didn't edit down the other ones. To remove the student members. So i'll fix that today. So i'm. i'm putting on i'm asking this group who's listed here. To. take the initiative and. Put it putting important things you found from the meeting. into the wiki page. So where we have breakout activities. Then different groups get different breakout rooms can make your own notes to the wiki. But in terms of capturing the main points and. elaborating on what was discussed in our meeting. i'm going to ask one of these groups to take over. take the lead. So there'll be 12 groups. So I have a funny story I had in mind that there are going to be 40 students online and 40 students face to face because there's two sections of training. Really there's probably 60 and 60 so that was. Well, that was. A little bit expected. Anyway, so the groups are about 10 people each recall groups and there's 24 meetings, including today. So i'm going to ask.
That.
Each group to look after to. To meeting days. Okay, so. So one thing i'm going to fix for Thursday, as well as taking off in the meeting room. waiting room. And had those. So first time i've had it enabled for a class me this time, keeping track of the default options. Okay, so today we're trying to get into the meeting. To stay in the waiting room and else i'll see you eventually. Okay, so yeah i'm going to assign different groups so there's groups one to 12 and i've put. group one here. On this page that linked to. one. And the other 11 groups, so this can have 120 students in group one, so one 12th of the students are randomly assigned to group one. So not everyone's in group one. Just the people who are listed here. Okay. And in terms of editing. pages it's just a matter. Aside from doing the links like I showed briefly there. it's just a matter of doing html. And if there are questions. In having that. i'm i'm certainly. Here, to help get that sorted out okay. So let me go back. So i'm not going to post the recordings and post the transcripts and closed the audio transcript and i'm going to post the chat session transcript. And you can use that as resource source material for the wiki. entry for the day and for you. Okay, and i'm happy to engage in a discussion about. how best to organize things what are good ways to do it and which are not such good ways to do it. Okay, so. let's see so there's a question here in the chat so the end of class. Should we going to comment on the class wiki or just really just use that for Greg so. If you're in the group who's going to take charge of. who's been assigned to keep charge take charge of editing. Then you can. You can do the editing the page. If. So for anyone anyone can make additions to the page so. yeah so when we do a breakout room activity. Take some notes and. Within within your breakout room and someone can copy and paste them into the wiki. So that's the idea, so it is to use the wiki page as a resource. for capturing additional information about the meetings, so the meeting page. will have the sort of the raw materials that you can use in the wiki page so. we'll see how it goes so. that's my feeling about how we can make this work. and And for group one for the classwork group one. If you want to talk to me about things. I don't mean to make this. For. Exceptional burden on your shoulders. The current state of doing this, but. i'm here as a support. You lend them support here to support everyone in class, we have a productive discussion. And so, our goal for the Semester is to think critically about computing. And the way we're going to do that is by looking at. Current events. Is one way, one way to look to see. The implications of computing in the world. and To evaluate its impact. let's see what. What things can. What things are there to. be aware of that aren't necessarily. made. Learn surface in. Our. Everyday conversations about things. Okay, so what i'm going to do now. i'm going to share. Your screen here. whiteboard. Okay i'm. gonna do the whiteboard the tenants so. send me direct messages, because then it messes up. My sending everybody in chat. Okay here's the password for the attendance in the chat. The password is good for today. This is based on the name of the class.
clarify the biggest risks and rewards in.
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now talk about the responses in the middle. Okay, so i'm going to assign very good makeup reiko groups which aren't. Rich aren't going to. match up with the class work groups today but we'll do then. Starting Thursday. Okay, so i've started the breakout rooms, you can go ahead and join them. Sharing screen inside the breakout rooms.
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So, can you transfer me to. The system kick me out I don't know why.
Which group, are you in.
group 10.
Okay.
Thank you, Sir.
you're welcome. Okay. So, how does that go.
See pretty productive.
It was good.
Okay. Well we'll try and build on that in our next over the Semester. So any comments to share, about.
I guess one major risk would be like. Well, like a mall reward be like Informations and widespread thankfully information.
uh huh. So the reward is the accessibility of information. So what would be your risk is.
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about the work.
So let's just have a rule here that if you want to speak with your MIC which is completely. reasonable and encouraged but put your hand. Up there's a. there's a reaction so gentlemen.
According to me the biggest risk of information are could be malware is maybe because if there were not detected in property bit quicker up the entire system and all the folks at one made to make a system.
Okay, so when ransomware is a big issue these days isn't.
yep it is.
yeah okay thanks.
corey.
hey one of the biggest risk is privacy cuz we're basically given no personal information to social media site and other online services so we're kind of at the whim of their. Security like how good the security oh.
yeah.
So that. So. We don't necessarily value privacy, then. So it's not something that it's them to be important and we're concerned about it says hey we'll give you a free. order. will give you a free. Large double double if you give us your social insurance number. or whatever it is yeah that's certainly. problem potential problems, who jump.
So my point is a bit similar to call you and the same group but yeah privacy is a biggest bigger issue, I guess, because. While does reward in using a certain thing like yes you're getting information or you get to connect with your friends and family. At the same time you're giving out information that can be easily breached, or can be used by somebody else to manipulate it for their good or for like in a malicious and then I guess if they have a malicious intent.
And it may not even be some malicious but just the idea that they have information.
First, and again.
yeah.
that's.
An issue.
This comes into the heading of surveillance capitalism. Okay, let me try and get through our comments here done.
one or more can be like you can click easily connect with people just anywhere around the globe even there like just even there like an ocean away from you.
mm hmm.
yeah. So. With my family. My wife's family, we did a video call the Christmas. We need avoided doing that. So, but it was. easy enough to do and the technical problems were weren't too too severe. And then. My son. Well, ours. yeah nicer is living in Riga, Latvia, but we often do whatsapp or facetime to. To stay in touch with them, which is very. very nice, so it doesn't seem like he's. living on a different continent.
So one of the biggest risk, as well as rewards for information is like data manipulation how easily data can be manipulated on. Like platforms like Google, Facebook like social media and stuff because, if it is used the right way, it can be helped to lead people. And if you use the wrong way it can be used to brainwash people into doing crimes and stuff which is like crimes and stuff which is not right, so there is nothing.
Okay yeah so information is. Information being accessible is certainly a reward but. If the quality of information is not. There, or if it's just displaying this information in lies and that's certainly a big risk. yay. Alright, thanks, so to final comment visual. And I apologize if i'm not doing well with your names, let me know if i'm not. Okay.
yeah, I just wanted to say, which was discussed in our discussion a breakout room as well that artificial intelligence and machine learning can also poses a risk to our information society, as we can, as we can already see that. That machines are taking over humans slowly and steadily, so it is definitely near future.
Okay.
yeah.
we'll be talking about that as well. The semester Thank you so there's a comment about their responses, so let me just. So. there's the last thought about. Okay, I think i'm sharing my screen. So under responses so there's a disconnect. There are three kinds of responses i'm looking for. You can say, the most important thing to you learned in the meeting the most difficult thing for you understand during the meeting. And the thing about what you would most like to know more. So pick one of those three headings types of responses and then rate up to 512 characters and you have until the end of the day of the meeting to do that. And we'll use that to feed into our discussion for the next day. Okay, so. This isn't where it should be on now, I guess, because we're just a little bit over time here.
And we do that lucky wiki page.
No that's an assignment and.
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In your courses.
rough, could you please repeat what you see my Internet connection went bad.
So. there's a section called responses to meetings. In the description is. It gives you it says there's three types responses, you can talk about the most important thing you learned in the meeting most difficult thing for you and for you to understand in the meeting. And the thing about which you'd most like to know more. So pick one of those and write up to 100 words or 512 characters by the end of today and look at those responses and we'll talk about them next day. And you get a. These do contribute. to your final mark so. it's. it's worthwhile to to do them. And to be thoughtful about them. But not spend too much time. Either so there's a balance there.
Is it 512 characters.
yeah so it's about 100 words.
So is it more like there is no right or wrong answer it's more like we share our own opinion and our own experiences from the glass.
yeah.
So. yeah so it's not being right around and what you do to be thoughtful. I don't want you to just describe what we did. But I want you to think about. Responding to the meeting, and one of those but talking about what. What was the most important thing you learned today, most of the call thing for you to understand today and the thing today. thing that was discussed today, but which you would most like to know more. Okay. Anyway, so we're a little bit over time here and I apologize. So i'll be back in a few minutes for office hour. else i'll send the link out to you our courses for that as well. Okay. thanks again take care, have a good day we'll see you on Thursday.
Have a good day.
thanks again. bye. Thanks everyone have a good day take care.
You have to pick one for their responses right.
yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
bye and.
Okay, so is that there's one more time we have been out for about is a. blast wiki right, so I didn't get the concept of what it is.
So, are you in are you in the Group one.
I know.
Okay. So. idea is. That one one group in class will be given the task of responding to or so managing. annotation of meeting. On the wiki page for that meeting.
So, in short, they will give us a brief summary of what has happened in the class like that.
And so. i'm going to post. different things. Like the transcripts and. Media from the class and so on. And so the group who's. in charge of editing for the meeting can use that information. So. it'll be raw materials, you could say.
And then. yeah and then and then that that is also included in participation marks or anything.
yeah.
And then, if a group has to help people, how are they gonna work on one thing. Like in a group or. One person will be done other stuff. Like basically if people are there, how it's gonna work, one by one individually.
So. and i'll give you the opportunity to comment about. How all the groups work and then semester. But the reason i'm doing groups, instead of individual people. So starting on Thursday we're going to use the groups for breakout discussions as well. So. Over time, you might become a little more familiar with people, and then you can. decide on how to work. So i'm not what I mean about editing wiki page and not trying to enforce a certain this distribution of work or division of work within the group. and i'm trying to create a smaller structure than the class. So that. So instead of dealing with 120 people in class you're dealing with can. Maybe maybe that's. A way to make things more manageable.
OK.
OK so don't stress about. The marks and so on.
Okay.
i'm just trying to write a variety of opportunities. So that we can, as a group. Have the most fulfilling and richest experience possible under the circumstances. Okay.
yeah sure what book, thank you for your time.
You are concerned about the mark distribution like how are the mark distributed in class.
yeah I am going to talk about that on Thursday okay.
Okay yeah that makes sense, so we can just like for now we can just only answer to the. answer to that 100 word and sections in it. yeah okay Thank you so much, Sir hope you have a good rest of your day.
thanks you too.
Take care.

Zoom Chat Transcript

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how do we submit attendance?
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attendance password?
no midterm?
What percentage will be the final if there is no midterm?
will the final be proctored?
Hey guys! I made a discord server for this class, here's the link: https://discord.gg/hz8G8e8Y3r
can you post it on the forum
Are responses mandatory?
what is the attendance password?
He hasn't given it yet.
do we have to make pages like these? I am kinda confused
You're going to select which groups contribute each meeting right?
Everyone is in group one right now
so at the end of each class should we go and comment on that class wiki? or will we just use that for the breakout rooms?
can anyone please tell me what is the attendance password?
didn't give it yet
I don't think he's given it yet.
he haven't post yet
oh alright! Thank you all!
Student password
OK?
thanks 👍
ok
is it the same for every class? or it will keep changing?
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I think it will change every class, ive done something like this before
it will keep changing is my guess
I think it will change. That way they know that you've gone to that specific class session.
that makes sense, thank you
did we talk about the 'responses to meeting' section? how is that marked, and what do we write there?
Breakout Discussion: What do you see as big/biggest risks and big/biggest rewards in our information society?
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Would it be using our personal information in order to make transactions? Such as using credit card information to purchase something online.
Data Breach is another biggest issue as well.
sometimes machine learning can be risker as well
not a good deal
I think the biggest risk would be misuse of the data and biggest reward could be easier access to information
risk: loss of privacy
There is the potential risk of robots taking over the world through artificial intelligence.
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what I believe is privacy isn't really a risk as the information that is out there was on first hand was given by us so it would really be our responsibility
@harpreet but what about credit cards or tracking of IP addresses
From security perspective, cyber warfare among countries can be a risk to whole society
risk: more suspectable to scammers and catfishers
What are we in group 1 supposed to write in the wiki?
can we say that we just had no troubles at all
You just want us to write about one? Not all three?
Is the "Respond to Mtg 01" on the Breakout Discussion? Or the entire meeting?
Is the response to meetings marked by whether you did it or is there a gradient?
I think it is on the entire class that we attended.
So we just answer one prompt?
Gotcha, thank you.
Hey guys, for those who missed the discord link, here it is: https://discord.gg/XQdjfvJpd4
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Responses

The most important thing that I encountered:

We discussed some of the biggest risks and rewards that we face in our information society where both the access to information, and the publishing of said information has been made very easy.
I learned that we as a society do not value privacy. We will freely give away our private information for incredibly small rewards such as a free coffee, or access to an application on our phone. We will allow large corporations to monitor our online activity for something as simple as being advertised to more accurately.
well In today's class I learn or discuss basic things about Risks in computers field. When someone tries to damage or steal the user data or tries to access the user information without user permission. In many application like Facebook, Instagram user information are leak that create security risk for user. There are many things which are risk for computer such as viruses and worms. Viruses that can be attached to the computer files and corrupt or destroy the user data. Viruses can be spread from various sources. It can spread from internet and some human involvement is necessary to spread the virus.
The largest risk, in my opinion, would be data misuse, while the major benefit could be easier access to information. I personally believe that today's first class very helpful in understanding various fields of computer science.
- I am very pleased to take CS 280, it is not only a part of computer science but also very important to understand the risks and rewards in current society. - In my first class, I have learned what is the biggest risks and rewards in the current society through breakout room discussions. Risks o Data and Privacy Breach – Lead confidential information into wrong hands such as cybercriminals, data manipulating private companies, campaign companies. o Disinformation – Divide our society through different or wrong information. o Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Lead real-life errors, High unemployment rate, making people more dependent on technologies. o Cyber Attacks – Massively interrupt daily life (attacks on utilities or essential supply companies), costs more money to run business. Rewards o Getting and sharing information from across the world o Cloud Infrastructure – Less effort to build an infrastructure with the latest tools with a minimum level of security (data and infrastructure) o Globalization – Able to connect to any part of the world with less effort which is leading high record of online businesses. Antony E
The big risk in our information society is that our personal information is more likely to be leaked. The big reward in our information society is that people all over the world can contact each other very conveniently.
The important things I learnt in today’s lecture were about the rewards and risks in the information society. The rewards include the easy accessibility of information (how effortlessly any kind of information is available at the tip of our fingers in this fast-evolving technological world). Anyone can get linked from any corner of the world through the virtual connection served by the information society. The risks of this society go hand-in-hand with its rewards. The easy accessibility of data has posed a threat about the security as well as corruption of sensitive data. We need to protect this information against malware. Privacy of data is a risk in today’s information society.
I believe the most important thing that I learned during today's lecture was the importance of understanding our current information society. More and more companies are using and selling data that has been scraped by countless hours of scrolling on their websites for profit which is very questionable. The fact that these companies use this information as they please without laws in place to help protect the consumer is borderline insane to me.
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Today, I learned about the information society of today. It's all about creating and disseminating information, which carries both high risk and reward. The benefit is that information is easily accessible via the internet. On the other hand, it carries significant risks. Due to the ease with which information can travel via the internet, people must exercise caution in determining whether or not it is accurate. People could also gain access to your personal information and misuse it.
The most important thing I learned today was that their are many different interpretations of how information can have contrasting pros and cons. One example is social media, you get to connect with friends and family, which is a pro, but sacrifice privacy in the process, as we do not know how these companies gather our info and what they do with it. This can lead to a rather interesting discussion of whether or not the pros outweigh the cons or vice versa. Another discussion can also be about how we can keep the pro of staying connected with friends, and minimize the impact or get rid of the con, which again is lack of privacy.
I talked to classmates in the breakout room about privacy. Everyone agreed that privacy becomes easier to expose as there are more comfortable parts in daily life using SNS. Through Facebook or Instagram, everyone can easily find photos and information, and many people don't take personal information seriously. Through this class, I think we will be able to learn how to manage personal protection and why personal information is important.
The most important thing I learned from today's discussion is about the biggest risk and rewards in today's information society. I learned to get easier access to a massive amount of information, we first have to provide our personal and privacy information. We sacri
The most important thing that I learned today. The most important thing that I learned today is the risk and reward in information system. Information is very useful in our day to day activity, if we find information easily it will make our life easier .And on the risk part, data breach can be dangerous therefore we have to be careful when managing information. I also learned different ways of communication in the class and interacting and sharing ideas to get to use links in U of R courses. I also get to chat on discord with classmates and ask some questions. It was a great time to meet with professor and chat with student on line.
In today's class, we discussed about the biggest risks and rewards in regards to today's information society. The most important thing that I have learned, or should I say, the topic that I agreed the most with today is that although the internet offers us a plethora of resources and information, it also has its downsides. These downsides mostly have to do with your privacy and how your information can easily be accessed and breached by anonymous users on the web. The worst part is, since most users in today's age are well educated in regards to technology, you're more prone to getting hacked or having your information leaked than ever.
The most important thing I learned in the discussion topic (big/biggest risks and big/biggest rewards in our information society?) is how big a role cybersecurity plays in ensuring the safety and protection of the rights, privacy, and security of individuals in society. A breach in the security of an organization can lead to loss of information which could result in individual information being compromised. Also, it can lead to manipulation of individuals for political gain as in the case of Cambridge Analytica. Where political parties made use of algorithms in triggering people to act in certain ways.
The most important thing I learned today was how sharing our personal information to the internet can potentially be a big risk to our own privacy. Other people that have the ability or skills are able to invade our personal data which they can sell/share to other third parties. Though sharing our personal information through the internet indeed has a lists of risks, we still definitely get rewards in return. One reward that we can obtain is having a huge access to a vast array of information using the internet. The internet has its lists of risks and rewards.
I think after today's session I got to know that Doc Hepting is good professor... He understands what does student a student need... And moreover I think this course is gonna help me to understand better regarding what is actual privacy and is social media using our info for their purpose... So looking forward to next session!
Today is the first day of the class, I am happy to learn from Dr. Hepting and our class started with understanding the Course Guidelines and Evaluation for Assignment, Feedback, Exams. I was interested in knowing how this class will be throughout the semester. I was waiting for the syllabus where we can find all the weightage of the assignments, exams, and participating. It was good to see all the students and looking forward to learning more things from everyone in this class.
The first meeting was very informative, we got to know what we gonna learn in this class. We also learned about the projects that we have to do in this class. In todays meeting we also had a group discussion on "What do you think which is the big/biggest risk and big/biggest reward of Information society". Got to learn some new things from this discussion. We discussed what are risk of information society, the point that came out of this discussion is threat to privacy. Our personal data can be leaked and misused. The reward of information society according to me is easy access to information. Due to advancement in technology you can easily access any information online and that save lot of time. This are the major things that I learned in the first meeting.
Today's class started with the introduction to course as well as professor. After that professor provided the details about what we will be doing in this semester for this course like assignments, group discussions and attendance. in breakout room group discussion i came to know about what are pros and cons of information society. rewards like providing more efficient services to the world and helping people with technologies like artificial intelligence, information and communication technology and risks like data leak, data manipulation, stealing information and using it to harass people and whole society. at the end professor has also given the idea of what we will be learning based on the group discussions.
Today's information society has developed a lot. There are many risks and rewards associated with this developed information society. It has resolved our communication problems significantly. In the past, we had to rely on birds like pigeons or eagles to communicate with those who live far away from us. Nowadays, due to the developments in the information society sector, we have several ways like video calling or voice messaging, which are far more efficient and easy to use. Accessibility is one of the other most important benefits of today's well-developed information society. We can get news from all over the world with just a single click. Although, there are some risks involved as well. The biggest concern associated with it is privacy. To use these facilities, we give various permissions to applications providing these facilities. So, there are always chances that these applications use these private data for their personal gains. Sometimes, this kind of data that should be limited to the user only might leak and become available to everyone.
The significant thing I learned in today's class was during the group discussion. The risk and rewards of the information society. Privacy was one of the risks that was hugely discussed and the ability to spread misinformation too. Reward would be to the ability to connect and share information with other people. Depending on how one uses such things, it can either be a risk or a reward. Since it was the first day today, we didn't get to talk much about this but very interested in the different outcomes that can be discussed.
After our discussion in the class, I learned that information society is high risk and low reward for consumers; in contrast, it is low risk, high reward companies. Consumers grant access to a virtual world with little or less knowledge about this law, business, psychology, and economy. Companies with a better understanding of these aspects can easily manipulate people to earn more rewards. For example, with the appearance of NFT games, people could waste their money while thinking they were making money.
The most important thing I learnt today is various rewards and risk of modern technologies. The thoughts share by everyone were interesting and I would like to learn about the topics in details in this semester.
The most important thing that I have learned today is that it exists many risks and rewards which are quite present in our society such as: Risks: • We don’t have any privacy because in every single website where we have to register, they ask us for many personal information. • Our personal information can be used against us in a malicious way. • People is reading less and less books because all the information is at Google. Rewards: • Connecting with people all around the world. • Rapidity to obtain information with just one click.
The class started with professor giving introduction and then he discussed some stuff about assignments and group discussions and stuff like that. Later the group discussion took place into the action where the question "What is Risk and rewards systems in Information Technology" was raised. We also discussed the pros and cons of it. we brainstormed many cons like data breach, manipulation and hacking. and Pros like how AI is gonna help and reduce human efforts. At the end the professor gave us feedback on it.
Most important thing I learned was that the big/biggest risks and big/biggest rewards in today's society can include many things. Rewards can include how easy it is to access information or make contact with people globally. Risks can include people hacking into those types of sites and getting your personal info.
The meeting today was amazing and I get a lot to learn not only from the professor but from the students as well. We discussed the rewards and risks in the information society, which in its on the main topic of our course CS 280. There were rewards like it become convenient for all of us to talk to our loved ones at any given time through face time or regular calls and messages. Secondly, it benefits each and every individual to gain knowledge while sitting at their homes. It also has some risks such as threatening our privacy and our personal information getting leaked to those whom we don't want to know about. Moreover, nowadays cybercrime is at its peak as many of us getting robbed, as the hackers are penetrating our bank accounts and taking away our money. And all this happens as our information gets leaked. Today's lecture was quite informative, as it provides me the knowledge that information society provides many rewards but it can be harmful, if not used securely. Thank You.
The internet or social media could bring plenty of opportunities for people but is also considered a dangerous place with many risks. The biggest risk might be misinformation/propaganda, data breach/harvesting, and Cyberbullying caused by freedom of expression. And the rewards could be convenient for people to contact each other or get information and knowledge ever before.
Information Society is a broad topic, and It has risks and rewards. Thought the class discussion, the privacy issue seems to be the top concern of the classmates, as we put our personal information on social media, etc. Sharing information could be a reward as people share knowledge and resources. However, harvesting or mining the info could be relatively tricky. The quality of information sharing is also a concern as it could mislead people to do the wrong thing. We can see that information society could be a double-bladed sword, and it depends on how people use it.

The most difficult thing for me to understand:

The most important thing that I learned is that it is hard to consider the difference between Risk and Reward unless the purpose is defined. As observed most of the ideas discussed in class for Risk and reward of information society were associated with personal data. It was pretty much hard to understand the concept of risks only as most of the ideas were based on the data breach. I will look forward to skim through the risk part related to information society.
So far, the most difficult thing for me to understand is how the wiki works, how to implement a new page into it, and how a classwork group distributes the work amongst each other. I would definitely need more explanation there to understand my full duty in what I need to upload. Another thing I did not understand quite as well was how to navigate was syllabus.
The most difficult thing for me to understand was what this class was about and how it will be graded. I want to learn more about what this project is, the assignments, as well as research credit. What are the exact criteria used to evaluate participation?
Was about the wiki. Are a group assigned to it after every lecture to work on and progress? Is everyone expected to always contribute? Is this for grades, or to help us further our understanding of the topics presented? I'm just a little bit confused!
Firstly I could not got the question that was asked in the class today for discussion in breakout rooms. I was able to get question after I heard some of the answers from other students. So I think I learned also in this class about risk and reward kind of things hearing from fellow students.
I am not able to understand Assignments and it's due dates, final exam date as well as course material which is not mentioned in the syllabus. I have found only the Meetings date. Nothing is mentioned in the syllabus except the date of the meetings. If it is mentioned then it will be more beneficial for us as well organized. I would like to gain more knowledge in system security, cryptography, encryption, digital signature, authentication protocols as well as network security.
I know today what I need to learn for cs280 and what I need to do this semester, and the group discussion was cool. Also, I learned about how the internet affects us and how there are many unstable elements in the internet.
I'm not entirely sure what the term Information Society means, I'd love to learn at some point.

The thing about which I would most like to know more:

The effects of the rapid access of information on people's attention spans, perception of the world, self-esteem, etcetera. It would also be interesting to know if there is a difference based on what platforms/social media networks the person uses.
One thing that I would like to know more about is the risks of our information society, and how to safely avoid them while still being able to have the rewards of our information society.
the thing I would most like to know is how to protect the risk of information from leaking and maintaining privacy among ourselves how to overcome the risk of getting the wrong information and about how to handle information in a right way
what are some ways we can keep our information safe and secured.
What exactly is the determinate of what an Information Society is
In today's meeting we learned how to edit the wiki.But I still not sure about what's that wiki for,should we edit it for something and how the Classwork work.
What does it mean to be in an information society?
I would like to know more about how to protect my personal information. Including making sure my computer has the security measures in place to keep out hackers and make sure none of my information is leaked on websites. I would also like to know how to detect invaders, bugs, viruses, etc. on my computer and how to clean my computer of them.
I would like to know more about how the different physical components of a computer (mouse, monitor, etc) and how they interconnect with the software components.
In regards to information access, I would like to learn more about the restrictions for accessing certain networks in certain countries and how VPN services are able to bypass in a certain these restrictions. For instance, why is certain media/content that is uploaded on say YouTube for example restricted in the Canada but say not the US? Another point I'd like to know is how much how much censorship is actually involved in a network that has a massive assortment of information at peoples access? how much information can we not see compared to the amount we do have access to?
I would like to know more about the different ways that information is collected, used, and distributed online, and what risks/rewards pertain to the collection of this information. Specifically, what is done to ensure the security of an individual's data? How is data managed so that it can be used in a way that is beneficial to both the individual and the company? I am very interested in how information is managed online, and how permanent online information is, such as a credit card number or transaction.
I really want to learn more about this project that is worth 25% of the class grade. It wasn't mentioned in class today and I noticed in the filters before when I was trying to find my group( as the groups were hidden before) that there were a bunch of double letter groups (CL, DF, EH, etc ). There were some single letter groups too so I'm curious to see how that is organized in if the letter indicates a specific topic and double letters for the project are two topics that interact well with each other.
With the immense amount of information at our fingertips, no one is really safe as their privacy and data can be surfed by potential hackers and/or be stolen by identity thieves. I would like to learn more about how people can prevent their data from being breached and how/why hackers are able to break through firewall protection softwares.
After discussing the rewards of the information society, I am curious and interested to know more about the various ways we can cut down the risks of it. As we discussed some information society, now I am willing to find out some ways we can use data encryption and other security techniques to cut down the loss of privacy and data breach. One of the main reasons I chose Computer Science is to expand my knowledge about data hiding and cyber security, so in this semester I hope to get familiar with some such developed encryption methods and ideologies to make information society a safe and secure place to connect with people all around the globe.
I’d like to know more about how, as a society, our adoption of information processing technology has aided or hindered human development. There are many great rewards to using computers, yet I’m curious as to the risks involved. We often treat our personal cellphones like libraries or repositories to information that we don’t necessarily need on hand at all times. In this way, we treat our phones like a little second brain. With this, we have the ability to offload certain information processing tasks to this second brain of ours. How does this offloading behavior affect human development?
What is information society? and who and what is the part of the information society?
I have taken this class as I'm really interested in knowing the risks and rewards that are included in information technology. It is really important for an individual to know the risks that are involved while surfing in internet or any website as internet is very vulnerable place. Internet is also a place where one can benefit a lot so I'd like to know more about these topics
I would like to know more about how different measures are put up to stop the risk of leaking personal information. With that, I would also like to learn about how people with malicious intent end up getting information, so that we can learn how to defend against it.
I would like to know more about the syllabus and the grading system of this class. I also want to know more about the topics that will be cover in this class.
I'm sure we will be talking more about this in the future but I'd like to know more about the project we have to do. Some of the key pieces of info are what the project is on (e.g. do we choose our own topic within the field of Information Society), its due date, if we have to do it in partners or individual, and the rubric for the project. If it is a research paper, then what is the format for it (is there any required formal formatting like APA or just any general research paper format), requirements for sources, and its estimated length.
Well, in my breakout room, we came up with more risks rather than rewards, so I want to learn more benefits about rewards in information society. Because the rewards I came up with are... easily accessible information, new info, and communication spreads way faster. While in the risks of info society, we came up with misleading info, data breaches, leakage of personal info (privacy), inappropriate content, scamming, catfishing, etc. So, all in all, I would like to learn more advantages of the rewards and how we benefit from the information society from around the world
I would like to learn more about ransomware as I personally have never had issues with this but have seen many videos online of people being exposed to it or trying to remove it from their own computers. It is a very relevant topic as new ransomware is still being developed.
The thing I would most like to know more about are exactly the risks and rewards in information society. The discussion today showed me that what I believe to be the biggest risks and rewards may not be what most people seem to think are the biggest risks or rewards. Given that society is constantly moving further and further into automation/smart technology the risks and rewards are only adding up as time goes and as such I would like to know more about them.
I am curious about the meaning of “Information” when we talk about an “Information Society.” I wonder what kinds of information this consists of, if it means personal information or educational information, etc . I want to know more about the global impact of an information society. For instance, I want to know if such a society, which is founded upon the premise that there is no privacy, can be considered ethical. Is there a different system other than Capitalism in which the wide accessibility of information can survive? In our discussion groups, it was mentioned that an Information Society has allowed for technologies to become smarter, which can better people’s lives. Realistically, however, who will such technologies be able to reach?
The thing I would like to know more about in this class is the importance of our privacy. This discussion is based on Dr. Hepting's example in today's class-"Companies offering rewards such as a free large double-double if a customer provides them their social insurance number or some other personal information." Such types of rewards (baits) are largely deployed by organizations across the world to obtain valuable user information. Organizations can use this information/data in numerous ways such as targeting particular consumer segments for selling a product etc. It is not always necessarily used with malicious intent but they control the information and can use it in whatever way they want such as providing (selling) the user information to other companies. To conclude, I think it is crucial that we as individuals must have some sort of awareness and understanding of our privacy and what impacts it could have on our lives if we do not safeguard our privacy.
In todays class we discussed the potential risks and rewards of the information society. During the discussion in my group, although we had a general inference about what an information society was, we realized that we did not know what an information society was to the extent that we were able to describe what it was . I would also like to learn more about what is classified as information and what makes a society an information society.
The highlight of today's class was when everyone was discussing about the risks and rewards of information society. What I am more curious to study more, is to understand that does this information can be a risk or reward to the commercial side of the society. I mean all we know so far is it has risks to privacy for any individual or a company; and has reward to connect from the corners. But can this little piece of information capable to changing the way our economy works. For example, a rumour is also an information; may be not authenticate but an information. can this rumour turns to be a huge loss to anyone's or any company's reputation. In short, information has both risks and rewards, but upto what extent it can do the either one.
I think this is going to be interesting.. very excited for this subject as I am always keen to learn about pros and cons of information Society. Looking forward to next class.
In today's lecture Dr. Hepting discussed the course information in detail. He also explained about the group work projects and also told us about what we have to do in this semester. We also discussed about the big risks and rewards which is the main topic of this course and It seems to be interesting Thus I would like to know more about that topic. I know it will be a great semester learning this course.
Today we made a light discussion about risks and rewards in the information society in breakout rooms. Further we may learn about how to avoid risks and know about more risks and rewards that we are not aware of yet, and that is the thing I would like to learn the most. We would also learn about rewards in detail so that we could make more use of it.
Informational society has become essential in the real world as they shape the ideas through which the world operates. I would like to learn more about how this affects our day to day lives and the future of mankind. I am also interested in going in depth about the risks and rewards that we are gaining through it.
In what ways can risks in the form of data theft or data breaches be minimized? What are some steps I can take now to limit my risk while online? Overall, I'm interested in learning about the history of the internet and the web and the steps that have already been taken to make it more secure. I'd also like to learn about the ways a computer science major might find work in web security.
I would like to learn more about what an information society is and what kinds of risks and rewards that exists in such a society. In class we discussed what some of the biggest risks and rewards were but most of those ideas were put forth by the students and we don't have an informed opinion. Thus, I would like to know more about the central premise of this class and what we will be learning in it.
The thing I would most like to know is what exacatly is the meaning of the risks and rewards in information society, there are many examples like malwares and accessibility of information, but what makes that so special, making people discussing about it.
I would like to hear more opinions about Information society
In today's class we discussed the risks and rewards of information and in the discussion we talked about how malwars could be a great risk to information society. I would love to know further regarding this as I have been a victim of malware and I would love to how to prevent our systems from such malware attacks.
I would like to know more about the course related topics as things are still unclear for me that what we are going to study in the whole semester.
I found today's class discussion about the risks and rewards of information in our society to be interesting, and frankly quite eye-opening. From personal information being hacked to being able to connect with other people online, the use of information seems to now be a controversial topic as it reaps as many rewards as it does cause chaos. After our discussion, I am curious and now hoping that we are able to cover how information has been used for propaganda in recent current events, for example, how information has been distributed during the Coronavirus pandemic.
I would really like to know more about the risks that artificial intelligence technology poses to our information society (and society as a whole). It seems like an area of great potential however we probably have to be careful with how we proceed in developing and implementing it. What are the likely consequences if it is not regulated properly?
The thing I would like to know more about is Cybercrime. Cybercrime is an amazing topic to know more about, the criminal activities that either target or use a computer, a computer network or a networked device can be so dangerous for the users. Also, to understand why the cybercriminals would hack users who are not involved in any serious organization or are not famous. Also, how do cybercriminals become organized, use advanced techniques and are highly technically skilled? How to overcome or identify people who are involved in this dangerous path. Understanding the ways to overcome the criminal could decrease the cases of attacks that happen against many innocent users and make the Internet a lot safer.
Personally I would like to know more about cyber security and about how certain websites are more protected than others and how they are more protected than others.

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