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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"hacker"”.
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Thriller, Horror, Hacker, Spy: The Hacker Genre in Film and Television from the 1970s to the 2010s
… that hacking and surveillance have formed a ‘hacker’ genre in film and television that begins to emerge from the influences of 1970s films, forming between the 1980s and 1990s and continuing to develop through to the 2010s, grouping together computer hacking, surveillance and espionage as …
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Towards Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace: Social Media Analytics on Hacker Communities
… by social media analytics. Given the role of hacker communities in cybercrimes and the prevalence of hacker communities, there is an urgent need for developing hacker social media analytics capable of gathering cyber threat intelligence from hacker communities for exchanging hacking knowledge …
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Acessibilidade Digital e Inclusão: o que podemos aprender com a ética hacker?
… cartográfica e nos princípios da ética hacker, a investigação adotou como eixo central a promoção da acessibilidade digital e da reflexão crítica sobre o capacitismo, explorando dispositivos pedagógicos que favorecessem o protagonismo infantil e a produção coletiva de conhecimento. O …
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The Trojan Horse(s) of "Hello World" culture : the story of Sony PSP domestication through the eyes of the Homebrew users
… 2007). However, when users such as the hacker users go against the view of themanufacturer and unlock technology in order to domesticate it further, then tensions betweendifferent groups can become apparent.Drawing upon the literature of the Social Shaping of Technology and that of …
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Beyond Invention: How Hackers Challenge Memory & Disrupt Delivery
This dissertation uses a case study of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly to consider how the practices of a hacker public might be theorized as a rhetorical activity. The project is contextualized within a history of hacking (building from a narrative that centers on Levy's 1984 book Hackers) and within …
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Heike, Jike, Chuangke : creativity in Chinese technology community
… This thesis investigated Heike, or Chinese hackers, through archival research of Chinese hacker magazines; it explored topics discussed in Jike media, or Chinese geek media, using text mining (a type of data mining) methods including co-occurrence analysis, TF-IDF analysis and topic models …
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"I Social Network Indipendenti: nuova frontiera dei media digitali"
… sviluppati dagli attivisti della comunità hacker e dai collettivi tecno radicali, secondo la definizione di Downing di media alternativi. L'avvento del Web 2.0 e dei social media ha profondamente modificato la sfera mediale pubblica, anche per quegli attori politici come i movimenti …
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The Triple Pot and techniques in distributed system call intrusion detection
… to devise ways to protect their systems from hackers. One of the ways that they do this is through intrusion detection. Host based intrusion detection systems reside on the computer and perform internal diagnostics of a computer to detect malware and misuse. These HIDS use a variety of methods …
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Towards a Cryptographically Verifiable Database Management System
… do not hold, catastrophic losses could result. A hacker compromising the server gains complete control of the operating system. The hacker can tamper with the data, perform arbitrary computation, violate transaction properties, or return wrong results to the client to pursue external incentives …
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Reducing pause times with clustered collection
… Measurements of the code and data from the Hacker News web site show that Clustered Collection decreases full collection pause times by a factor of three. Hacker News works well with Clustered Collection because it keeps gigabytes of data in memory but modifies only a small fraction of that …
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The Rise of China's Hacking Culture: Defining Chinese Hackers
… has been home to some of the most prominent hackers and hacker groups of the global community throughout the last decade. In the last ten years, countless attacks globally have been linked to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) or those operating within the PRC. This exploration attempts to …
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The Effect of Racial Status and Other Core Characteristics on Collective Self-Esteem A Quantitative Test of Divergent Theories of Identity Valuation
… identity devaluation and minority stress (Hacker 1992; Harris 1993; Meyer 1995; Tatum 1997; Hoff-Sommers 2000; McIntyre 2002) and come to value their identities less in empirical terms than do members of equivalent majority groups (Harris 1993; Hacker 1995). The thesis here is that the …
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Securing cyberspace: development and evaluation of a novel research toolset
… perpetrated by individuals also known as “hackers”. Although the mainstream portrait of hackers nowadays brings to mind the idea of cybercriminals, not all hackers are malicious ones. The word hacker in its original sense only describes a computer enthusiast and a skilled programmer who was …
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Cybercrime Legislation in Lesotho
… even know exist. A nightmare scenario would be a hacker breaking into the hospital's computer systems on a fine morning and before doctors can arrive to treat their patients, the malicious hacker modifies patients' files on the hospital's database systems: [S]urgeries slated to be performed on the …
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Rotating gravity current and channel flows
… are achieved to the energy conserving theory of Hacker (1996). Hacker considered three flow geometries, case A - weak rotation, case B - intermediate rotation and case C - strong rotation. Firstly, the theory is extended to include dissipation. This is achieved in a similar manner to that used by …
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Cybersecurity for urban critical infrastructure
… their cybersecurity was not taken seriously. A hacker can monitor, access and change these systems at their discretion because of the infrastructure's lack of security. This is not only a matter of potential inconvenience. Digital manipulation of these devices can have devastating physical …
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J4CK MERED34TH
… <p>J4CK MERED34TH follows 19-year-old gamer and hacker Jack Meredith in a near distant future in which virtual reality has been achieved. After a small routine job, someone breaks Jack’s security and steals his identity. This novel seeks to explore the concept of identity and its importance …
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The ethical issues of additive manufacturing
… has mainly been advanced by activities of DIY hacker groups and the sharing economy, this thesis is framed in the context of users from DIY hacker collectives like hackspaces, makerspaces, and FabLabs. The research investigates the ethical concerns of experts who are closely associated with …
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Changing Privacy Concerns in the Internet Era.
… concern. Privacy invasions by Web marketers, hacker threats against privacy, and employer invasion of employee privacy at the workplace are discussed respectively. Then a set of possible solutions to solve the current problems and alleviate the concerns in this field is offered. Legal remedies …
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Undocumented Immigrant Intervention Training for Counselors: A Quasi-Experimental Study on the MSJCC and Ethnic Tolerance
… Garcini et al., 2018; Garcini et al., 2021; Hacker et al., 2015; Logan et al., 2021; Yakushoko, 2009). With more than a quarter of the United States' population being impacted by immigration and mental health implications as a result, it deems essential that counseling professionals receive …
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