Bibliography - post all websites visited in the comments!

We can use this thread as a running bibliography :)



SECURITY
http://english.blog.eazel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/security-infographic-en.jpg
(contains source list at bottom)


Government distrust linked to internet use
http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/10/26/jopart.mus037.full

Data backing above article up
http://blog.ted.com/2012/08/13/how-pervasive-has-government-distrust-gotten/
http://norwegianshooter.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/ex-gop-operatives-are-human-too.html

Camera Phones (2005)
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/498310
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_cell_phones_are_sold_each_year

Historical Example of password fraud

Potentially nice to use in a future presentation,

In 413 BC, at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the Athenian general Demosthenes landed in Sicily with 5,000 soldiers to assist in the attack on Syracusae. Things were looking good for the Greeks. Syracusae, a key ally of Sparta, seemed sure to fall.

But during a chaotic nighttime battle at Epipole, Demosthenes’ forces were scattered, and while attempting to regroup they began calling out their watchword, a prearranged term that would identify soldiers as friendly. The Syracusans picked up on the code and passed it quietly through their ranks. At times when the Greeks looked too formidable, the watchword allowed their opponents to pose as allies. Employing this ruse, the undermatched Syracusans decimated the invaders, and when the sun rose, their cavalry mopped up the rest. It was a turning point in the war.

taken from http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

An interesting article regarding Passwords!!!

The following is some of the key points taken from an article titled 'Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore.'

The article was written following the thefts of the authors (Mat Honans) passwords to basically his entire online presence. Everything from bank accounts to emails to social media accounts.
He is a massive advocate for the development of online security, it's quite a lengthy (and bulky) article, so i've tried to keep the following points brief.

• Credit card, bank details, personal photos, emails, conversations, thoughts, address, exact locations of internet access, all protected by relatively low encryption (strings of characters)
• Hackers can gain information thats available on one service to gain entry to another
• Common weakness = password
• Passwords have been relatively low problem, due to low level of data they have needed to protect
• False reality that 'stronger' (larger) passwords are more effective
• Trade-off between ease of access & privacy (could be presented in a diagram?)
• Sony had to pay out $171 million following a breach of privacy in 2011
• Passwords fail through being guessed, lifted from password library, cracked by brute force, stolen with a keylogger, or reset completely.
• Multiple factors of authentication, about the 'now' seem to be the way forward. An anology is seeing your friend in the street -  you don't just look at his hair colour to confirm it's him. You look at his jacket, the way he is standing, his mannerisms when he sees you, if he is in an area that he's likely to be
• Jeremey Grant labeled the new form of system an 'Identity Ecosystem'
• Problem with fingerprint scanner - too buggy, and infrastructure to support them doesn't exist
• Biometric scanners still have opportunity to be hacked - one factor authentication
• Idea: Phone snapping picture of your face, sends it to three friends, confirm your identity before you can proceed
• Google is already monitoring login, examining patterns in terms of location, device, and other signals the company wont disclose.
• Only movement forward is real identity verification - allowing full tracking of movements in metrics in all sorts of ways, and have them tied to our real identity.

Following this article, there is a MASSIVE discussion in the comments!!! (Mostly aimed at how the author of the article should have backed up his hard drive etc.) but there is some gold amongst it.

• Two questions that should be considered when deciding the level of security needed - How much does someone else want it? How important is it to you that they do not have it?
• From reading the comments - public consensus seems to fall in two ways. The first side says that information should not be put on the internet that is private (eg. banking, private emails). They share the opinion that if someone wants your information, they can get it. The second side want an increase in security, but are completely baffled as to how to get there.
• If you make it more difficult to get that the potential value return for the hacker, they will move onto lower hanging fruit
• Good infosec starts with three tiered system - something you have (smartcard, security chip etc), something you know (secure password, combination of characters), and something you are (biometrics, fingerprints etc).
• The weakest link is your internet connection

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

Design for the future - How to deal with new technology

This text is a thoughtdoodling on challenges met with the increasing level of data stored and collected, and how it could be used, or abused. 

The technological evolution on the use and collection of big data and the wide use of tracking of activity by large companies such as Google, Facebook, and probably the governments around the world etc. is a action with still unexplored consequences. The privacy of the users are threatened, and often without any toughts offered on the fact that they know exactly where we are and what we do with the most of our lives.

I don't think we would accept the same amount of surveillance if this was done by a "tracking device" instead of something as personal as a mobile phone.
Recently several of these companies have showed low control and security in how they treat and store the data collected. For instance can facebook keep all data on you for as long as they want to and use it for what its worth. "private" groups in facebook is not at all private. Facebook can access all information in this groups, as well as anything else.

What could this huge information collection cause in the future? They could probably predict my future better than myself by using big and advanced programmes to predict my future action, and therefor place advertisement on things before I know that I want it myself. (with a calculated amount of unsecurity). 

Ill be back later with updates on this.
Note that this is only a thinking process. Details and facts are not corrected/backed. Statements could be wrong or unsupported at this moment. 

R. Fannemel. 01.08.2013

Implication for Industrial Design(ers)

An example on products and production.

In the early days of manufacturing and production:
Craftsmen planned, shaped (not designed, as we know it today), created and in the end produced and sold the products, on demand.  (example: blacksmith producing a sicle for harvesting of grass, usually on order from a farmer, etc.). In other words, they did the designjob.

Now:
Mass production, large scale, low variation.
-Designers works for companies to develop products fitting in a certain production and market segment. Hopefully the design becomes a success and could be produced in large quantity, over long time, to earn in investment costs, etc.

Introduction to new tech:
Designers often use rapid prototyping in the design process. 3d printing allows early face, cheap and rapid prototyping and user testing (in many cases). The goal is still to design for mass production, where the user itself have little involvement in the final product -> buy what is available.

In the future:
The evolution of manufacturing methods, such as 3d printing, can change how we design, buy and distribute products. There are already existing pages on the web where the customer can customize the final product. (within limitations) This is still expensive compared to buying off the shelf.
Cheaper techniques and material will probably be available in the future. This allows designers and customers to cooperate on a more personal level, like Graphical designers do today with personal webpages etc.
Simple/basic products could be available for downloading online, with printing/manufacturing in a local 3d print store, or at home. Depending on what needed. With re-use of materials this could maybe make the production more environmental friendly. There is also a risk that it would go the other way around, with an excessive use of materials and recless production, as we can see printers (paper) being used today.

Anyways. There will always be change. This could be a possible way of evolution. (less mass production, more custom/semi custom products, to suit the customer better, and to avoid large store costs and waste of material)

R. Fannemel 01.08.2013

Early research process. Mapping up our domains and sorting them on time and category

http://opensource.com

Stumbled across Opensource.com.
The interesting thing about this website is that it constantly opens up and demands debates on all issues surrounding Opensource, from the ethics, to ways it can be integrated into society, its limits, and also interviews with major leaders of the open source movement.

Heres a video to check out when you have 17 minutes to spare also!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLGTrz1Zolk

maybe we could watch this in class today?