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Saying that cybersecurity is a "difficult problem" is like saying that reversing global warming is a difficult problem: it's true, but it doesn't quite capture how devilishly complicated and multifaceted the problems really are. There's no single reason why creating a more secure global network is so difficult; it in part has to do with the radically-distributed architecture of the Net, in part with some deep flaws computer software, and in part just from its sheer size and importance to our daily lives. (For more on this, see the nice [[Cybersecurity]] backgrounder.)
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So we came in not with the goal of providing a magical elixir that would make all credit card transactions magically secure and make it impossible for hackers to [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html compromise Gmail's security]. Instead, we wanted to offer suggestions with minimal implementation headaches and maximal benefit to users, from novices to experts. This page has a short video overview of the ideas, explains some of the details of our proposal, and even has an alpha-release Firefox plugin that you can download and try out (thanks to [http://www.elance.com/ Elance] for this, by the way).
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==Overview==
Jig
Jubilant
Jest
Josh
Just
Jingle
Joyful
Joy
Jaunty
Jubilee
Jamboree
Judicious
Jiffy
Join
Juxtapose
Juicy
Justified
Jaw
Jewel
Jolly
Jocular
Journal
Joke
Jazz
Jumpstart
Jibe
Journey
Jovial


We discussed this topic at length in an in-class presentation on January 19. [http://www.vimeo.com/9036735 This] 9-minute video summarizes and extends the presentation we gave that day.
However, this jubilant letter didn’t simply come out of nowhere. Prior to its creation, it was once now not differentiated from the letter i and was once written precisely the equal way. An Italian grammarian referred to as Gian Giorgio Trissino made a differentiation between the two. Imagine announcing you are such a ierk or a ioke to someone. Instead of being indignant at being known as that identify I suppose you may simply laugh. It is fairly funny. Try it. We hope you loved these positive words that begin with J.
 
==Specific Proposals==
 
===Public Service Announcement===
 
We created a Public Service Announcement for generating public awareness for the cybersecurity problem, and showed in class on January 19. It's online [http://vimeo.com/8937782 here] but is password-protected. Please email us if you were in the class and would like the password. In sum, we don't think a direct public awareness campaign will be very effective. We want to nudge users and change their behavior by changing the way browsers and websites work, not by scolding people.
 
===SafeWord===
 
====What is SafeWord?====
 
SafeWord is a real, working FireFox plugin designed to nudge users into keeping safer and more unique passwords, though it's too unstable and unrefined to be considered anything buy alpha software. It's available for download [http://www.jasonharrow.com/safeword-1.0.0-fx.xpi here]. To install, save that file to your disk, select File --> Open in Firefox 3.5 or above, and install it. You will need to restart Firefox before it takes effect. Thanks to Elance for helping with the coding on very short notice.
 
We have created a video demonstration of one of the key features of SafeWord [http://vimeo.com/9031865 here].
 
====What Are The Goals of SafeWord?====
 
SafeWord begins with a simple proposition: online passwords should be strong and different for different sites, and your browser should help you acheie that goal. Studies continue to show that most users use very simple passwords; see, for instance, [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21password.html this] ''New York Times'' that gets right to the point. "If your password is 123456," reads the headline, "just make it HackMe." Moreover, most users also fall into the "dirty habit" of using the same password across multiple online accounts, which can lead to a disaster if only one of the accounts is able to be compromised. An extremely detailed analysis of a 2009 attack that compromised many online accounts of Twitter employees is [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/the-anatomy-of-the-twitter-attack/ here], but here's a fairly scary summary of what can happen if users use the same password at multiple important sites:
 
  1. HC accessed Gmail for a Twitter employee by using the password recovery feature that sends a reset link to a secondary email. In this case the secondary email was an expired Hotmail account, he simply registered it, clicked the link and reset the password. Gmail was then owned.
  2. HC then read emails to guess what the original Gmail password was successfully and reset the password so the Twitter employee would not notice the account had changed.
  3. HC then used the same password to access the employee’s Twitter email on Google Apps for your domain, getting access to a gold mine of sensitive company information from emails and, particularly, email attachments.
  4. HC then used this information along with additional password guesses and resets to take control of other Twitter employee personal and work emails.
  5. HC then used the same username/password combinations and password reset features to access AT&T, MobileMe, Amazon and iTunes, among other services. A security hole in iTunes gave HC access to full credit card information in clear text. HC now also had control of Twitter’s domain names at GoDaddy.
  6. Even at this point, Twitter had absolutely no idea they had been compromised.

Latest revision as of 02:38, 30 April 2022

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Which of these positive words starting with J did you discover to be the most comfortable and jocund? Like TikTok or Instagram, the letter J is a brand new letter, certainly it is the most current addition to the alphabet, and consequently the youngest and hip, I suppose. While there aren’t a ton of positive words that begin with J https://richardharringtonblog.com/positive-words-that-start-with-j/ to describe someone, there are some definitely true ones, like joyful, jolly and jazzy.

Jig Jubilant Jest Josh Just Jingle Joyful Joy Jaunty Jubilee Jamboree Judicious Jiffy Join Juxtapose Juicy Justified Jaw Jewel Jolly Jocular Journal Joke Jazz Jumpstart Jibe Journey Jovial

However, this jubilant letter didn’t simply come out of nowhere. Prior to its creation, it was once now not differentiated from the letter i and was once written precisely the equal way. An Italian grammarian referred to as Gian Giorgio Trissino made a differentiation between the two. Imagine announcing you are such a ierk or a ioke to someone. Instead of being indignant at being known as that identify I suppose you may simply laugh. It is fairly funny. Try it. We hope you loved these positive words that begin with J.