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My thoughts on playing Nova Cyber security game

I played the Nova Cyber security game for around 40 minutes, and made it to level 3. I chose Einstagram as my company. In My First cybersecurity Defense, I lost around 40 users when the company was small, later on when the company grew, I lost over 100,000 computers. This just shows how these big tech companies could potentially lose so many users’ data when they get breached. I did the three game modes, coding, password cracking, phishing exercise/ spot the difference. The coding exercise reminded me of the Hour of Code. we would have in middle school and high school. Those periods teach the very basics of how technology works, and like I mentioned in my discussion post, I think it is very good to teach this as it increases tech literacy and potentially saves them from becoming a victim of cybercrime. The spot the difference activity really reminded me of the TMU cybersecurity month we had a while back. The school sent lots of fake phishing emails to students on gmail to teach us not to fall for phishing scams. Nowadays I look very intently if I receive any email for anything to see if it is real or fake. The password cracking game was a fun exercise at creating a tough password that the game couldn't crack, and also seeing how easy it was to guess my opponent's password by brute force or any of the other methods in game was shocking. it just makes me think what a supercomputer can do when breaching the passwords of millions of people. Nowadays I make much stronger passwords compared to when I first started using the internet as a child. Overall the game made me realize how important cybersecurity is. As we learned in the module, 70% of Canadians have been affected by cyber crime, and it only keeps increasing. Using common sense and following best practices is still the best thing one can do.

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Module 6 PSA https://youtu.be/DUiV-Fsdr3s

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CEID100 Final Project Proposal: Online Etiquette

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These are the 8 websites I visited for the Disconnect activity. Civic:

e-commerce:

News:

Social:

Out of these websites, Amazon was the one with the most trackers, and right behind was Newegg. It is definitely interesting that ecommerce platforms are the sites with most. It is most likely significant for their recommended products for users.

Wikipedia was the one with the least amount of trackers, with the RCMP website with not much more.

The news sites and social media all had around 30-40 trackers, with the exception of Facebook which had way less. Definitely not what I expected.

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Social media actors and the best practices of posting.

What I learnt about the best social media practices in module 1 was, you have to put effort into your online content. Being mindful of how you post, what you post and to who you are posting to. Based on these practices, the two instances I have chosen for my blog are from Ye and Logan Paul.  Firstly, Ye, in the past few years has become a very controversial individual due to many of his posts on X. From looking at the self brand infographic chart from module 1, Ye ticks off many of the requirements. He has a very charismatic personality, has a passion for music, and has only become so big due to his talented abilities. Ye most likely does not follow the 5th strategy for personal branding. He often posts in a very impulsive manner, and often very offensive or unfiltered content. These unadvised posts have made him a very polarizing figure in the entertainment industry and on platforms like X. He also doesn't follow the second principle of online netiquette. In the below tweet made by Ye, you can tell by his tone and the way he is typing in all caps, that he is emotional and the tweet feels like he has a superiority complex. This shows that he most likely does not know his audience, which goes against the best practices of social media. With the above mentioned information, and this example post, it shows that Ye is a prime example of not following the practices. Speaking of prime, Prime is a popular hydration beverage co-owned by YouTube personality Logan Paul. Logan Paul was a popular youtuber and vlogger in the past, and now is an entertainer in many fields and a business owner. From module 1, I learnt that social media branding often requires authenticity from the uploader. Being an energetic, chaotic youtuber for the young audience he had, and later becoming a boxer and WWE fighter required him to put up a character / inauthentic persona.  In 2018 Logan Paul uploaded a video of himself and friends visiting the Aokigahara forest in Japan, in which he found and horrifically displayed a deceased body. The 10th principle of online netiquette says that once something is posted, it is almost impossible to get rid of it on the internet. While this video was taken down, there are still copies of it that exist on the internet. This would be expected as the original video was on YouTube’s top trending page and Logan Paul was already a massively successful Youtuber at this point. Based on this information, Logan Paul is also an example of not following the best practices of social media. While they may have created “clear blue water” with their posts (distinguished themselves), they certainly didn't do it for the right reasons.