Hi all,
Assignment 1 has been set today, so make sure you are checking the blog frequently and participating in the content of EVERY post.
Today I would like you all to discuss and debate the security of the sharing methods that we are using (email and public blog). I would like you to consider the following points:
Assignment 1 has been set today, so make sure you are checking the blog frequently and participating in the content of EVERY post.
Today I would like you all to discuss and debate the security of the sharing methods that we are using (email and public blog). I would like you to consider the following points:
- Are the methods a secure way of sharing private information?
- What can be done to make those methods more secure?
- Who has access to the information from each method?
- Which is the more secure method?
- What other methods could we have used that would have been more secure?
Emails can be hacked some more easily than others. If sensitive case information was being transferred via email this can be dangerous if someone wants the information contained within. And with the blog I'm pretty sure its illegal to discuss case information in public, so not only is this not a safe way to discuss information its also likely to get you fired.
ReplyDeleteEmail is definitely the more secure method of the two however.
Jaiden, fortunately, the information we are discussing is freely available on the internet already, so is not illegal! It is also only illegal to discuss current cases.
DeleteThankfully, my job is secure! ;)
You could use special email addresses that are encrypted so that you can be more secure but that still isn't absolutely 100% safe. Blogs probably wouldn't be used at all within the professional forensic industry, although it would be funny to see forensic scientists in court loading up a blog and presenting evidence that way.
ReplyDeleteBlogs are widely available to the public, so this form of evidence sharing wouldn't be used for forensic information. Email still isn't particularly safe as it may be sent to the wrong person, as seen when we all emailed information to what we thought was Adams email adress. Setting up a secure link between computers within a building, such as an intranet, may be used for actual forensic evidence, made accessible by multiple passwords.
ReplyDeleteBlogs are widely available to the public, so this form of evidence sharing wouldn't be used for forensic information. Email still isn't particularly safe as it may be sent to the wrong person, as seen when we all emailed information to what we thought was Adams email adress. Setting up a secure link between computers within a building, such as an intranet, may be used for actual forensic evidence, made accessible by multiple passwords.
ReplyDeleteThe methods we are using are not very secure in sharing private info. As emails can be hacked or accessed if you have the users password and blogs can be seen by anyone who enters the URL. There's not much you can do to make these methods more secure, if its possible i guess you could make the blog private. The best way to secure these methods will be to not use them. The more secured method is email as you need to hack or find the password to access the emails. More secure methods would be to verbally exchange information in a secure environment where you know there is nobody listening that shouldn't be.
ReplyDeleteCarrie - Emails can, of course, be hacked, and blogs may be viewed, and commented on, by a range of different people. So, I feel that these methods are not particularly secure, as such. Passwords can be utilised to tighten up security. The administrator of a blog may be able to alter settings to a 'closed' group, so only the people who are meant to see it, can. The people who have access should surely be only the people who are included in the email and blogs contact lists (unless they've been hacked!) mmm I think that the email method is probably more secure, simply because blogs are more readily read by others. More security - we could perhaps set up passwords that only we know, and these passwords could change frequently. As we see each other in class, we could just be told the new password verbally. OR we could just use our college number to sign in, and anyone without a valid college number would be excluded.
ReplyDeleteBlogs are a popular way of sharing information and almost everyone can access a blog if you have the internet. Because they can be viewed by so many people this means that the security level is quite low. Also like any other social media page, a blog can be hacked which also lowers the level of security for a blog page. Security around sending and receiving e mails has improved but it is still quite easy to hack an e mail account if you know how to. You can increase the amount of security your e mail has by creating an unusual e mail address so only the people who know you are aware that it is you, or you could use a group e mail to communicate with only the people specifically added into the e mail. I would not use a blog or e mail to share sensitive information because of how easy it is to have this information accessed shared.
ReplyDeleteNeither method of sharing is any good. The public blog means that is extremely open to the public to see, and evidence from a scene wouldn't be presented there as there are no privacy settings to keep it between certain people. Email isn't a very secure method either, an email address can be hacked to obtain information.
ReplyDeleteEmail addresses could be secured by using encrypted addresses making the subject harder to be hacked and bypassed to get into. However, the same doesn't apply for a blog. A blog cant be anymore secured than it already is because it is an open space for the public – private reservations cant be made for the blog because it defeats the object.
With the email, only the owner of that address and the people how are attached to that email can have access to its information. But other than that, noone else has legal rights to see its content. However, the blog is a public documentation of information and possesses the rights to allow everyone to see; there is no privacy with this type of documentation. Out of these two, the email is more secure because it can be protected by password and is not publicly out there, whereas the blog is.
Other types of methods we could have used would have been a Facebook group. This posses the need for an account, password and an invite the place where the information is being kept making it very secure. The database where all information is gathered and organised is an secure professional server designed to be prone to hacking and owned by Facebook.
ReplyDeleteUsing a public blog that anyone can access is not a secure way to share private information, while Email is the safer option Email address can be hacked. Simply adding a password to the blog would increase the security of it and having encrypted email address would bump up the security of Email. Public blogs can be access by anyone as most blog types do not hold any privacy settings. Emails however should only be accessed by the email address owner and the recipients, purposefully obtaining access to a private email that is not sent to you is illegal. Safer methods of communication would include a private blog, password-protected Facebook group and encrypted email addresses.
Emails and blogs are one of the easiest ways to share information, though not that reliable as anyone can write a blog or send an email. Because it is a relatively new form of communication, miscommunication can easily occur when people have different expectations about the e-mails that they send and receive. Email addresses can easier be hacked, Especially if you use the same password for other accounts. Using encrypted emails helps keep the information safe from hackers.
ReplyDeleteA public blog is not a secure way of sharing private information as the name gives it away its public so anyone can access it and read what has been said, and/or add their own information to it. To make a blog more secure you could have it set up so that only certain people can access it with a password or something like that.
ReplyDeleteNow emails are more secure than a public blog, but they can still be hacked into or you could write an email address in wrong and it would be sent out to a complete stranger.
Although easy ways to share information, emails and blogs are easily hacked, and a blog (especially a public one) is not a secure method to share information that is needed to stay private, anyone could view the information we are sharing here and edit it to. Emails can be made more secure by having a private account that is only used for that specific purpose with security features such as firewalls installed, blogs should be made private and require a password. Emails are the more secure method as, unless hacked, only those invited in the conversation can view the information. A more secure method could be the intranet, where a system of computers is set up for the specific purpose of sharing information privately.
ReplyDeleteemails ad blogs are easy ways o share information but they can both be hacked and information leaked. blogs are open to the public and are not very secure, emails are more secure but are easily hacked or by human error emails can be sent to the wrong person.
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