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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"hackers"”.
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Beyond Invention: How Hackers Challenge Memory & Disrupt Delivery
… a narrative that centers on Levy's 1984 book Hackers) and within the arc of recent copyright legislation, specifically the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the 2011-12 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) debates. Within this framework, the dissertation examines how specific patterns and …
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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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Hackers gonna hack: investigating the effect of group processes and social identities within online hacking communities.
Hacking is an ethically and legally ambiguous area, often associated with cybercrime and cyberattacks. This investigation examines the human side of hacking and the merits of understanding this community. This includes group processes regarding: the identification and adoption of a social identity …
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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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Civic Hacking for the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy
The involvement of civic hackers in national and international crisis mitigation efforts as digital first responders has been widely discussed (Palen et al., 2010). Crisis events often cause civic hackers to break ethical boundaries and governance structures during crisis events as they attempt to …
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The Rhetoric of Commoditized Vulnerabilities: Ethical Discourses in Cybersecurity
… surrounding the morally contentious practice of hackers selling software vulnerabilities to third parties instead of disclosing them to the affected technology companies. Drawing on grounded theory, I utilize a combination of quantitative word-level analysis and qualitative coding to assess how …
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Position Location of Remote Bluetooth Devices
… of Bluetooth Devices has caught the attention of hackers. With Bluetooth devices being put in everything from cell phones to PDAs to laptops, the abuse of this technology could have an even bigger impact than the viruses and malware running rampant on the internet. Bluetooth is a short range …
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Er Growth Hacking vænlegt markaðstól við rekstur veitingastaða ?
… tengda veitingastöðum og tvo starfandi Growth Hackers. Spurningalistarnir voru því tveir í tilfelli þessarar rannsóknar, hannaðir af rannsakenda, annar ætlaður viðmælendum veitingastaða og hinn Growth Hackers. Niðurstöður viðtala voru síðan þemagreind. Samkvæmt niðurstöðum er svarið við …
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Um trabalho a troco de nada? A experiência das comunidades on-line de produção do software GNOME e da Wikipédia Lusófona, à luz da teoria da dádiva
… indivíduos – que nesta tese são denominados de hackers e wikipedistas – impacta na viabilidade de um processo de produção por pares e na manifestação de um sistema de dádiva na contemporaneidade. Para isso, adotando um método de imersão etnográfica de forma adaptada a esse universo digital, esta …
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Wireless Security Protocol in DNA Bio-Inspired Network
… the powerful of super sniffer techniques by the hackers to break in to such as malware and sniffing software that allows them to crack on the Wi-Fi to steal the data of the user who uses the eavesdropper Wi-Fi without their knowledge, these sniffers open to the hackers access to the user’s data …
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PassDB : parser for password dump database
… hacked and user information stolen. When the hackers are finished using the stolen data, they dump it on the internet in so-called data dumps. The project consisted of building a system that can be used to parse passwords and emails from most data dumps given (i.e., data leakage after security …
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The potential of America's Army, the video game as civilian-military public sphere
… military personnel, Christian Evangelicals, and hackers. The political activities of these exceptional game communities are considered for the ways they escape and transcend current critical theories of Internet-based public spheres.
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NAVY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AFLOAT, DATA SECURITY ANALYSIS
… that exist in the AM toolchain that provide hackers with numerous opportunities to corrupt valuable data. This research focuses on understanding how AM systems function, especially in schematic (aka 3D printer diagram) transfers to and from ships; identifies existing weak points in current AM …
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Security Incidents in an Academic Setting: A Case Study.
… and valuable information that attracts hackers. From 6 October 2000 to 29 March 2001, the authors collected data on possible attacks and probes against East Tennessee State University's campus network. The number of suspicious activities detected daily varied from 200,000 to more than …
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Analyzing Wireless LAN Security Overhead
… has created large security holes for hackers and thieves to abuse, which is finally being addressed by stronger security methods such as advanced encryption algorithms and efficient authentication processes. However, these security methods often hamper network performance unbeknownst …
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A novel defense mechanism against web crawler intrusion
… crawlers or spiders are used by search engines, hackers and spammers to gather information about web pages. Timely detection and prevention of unwanted crawlers increases privacy and security of websites. In this research, a novel method to identify web crawlers is proposed to prevent unwanted …
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Towards MDI QKD using Quantum Dot Single Photon Sources
… of the computational power of eavesdroppers and hackers. Although one form of QKD is already commercially available, it is susceptible to side-channel attacks based on flaws in how it is physically implemented. The most common attacks are detector-based attacks, and photon-number splitting …
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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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Sustainability Hacking: conceptual development and empirical exploration
… research stage, after interviewing self-declared Hackers and cybersecurity experts to understand how they used the term and how they pursued their desired systemic changes. This stage provided the definition, as well as 9 dominant characteristics of System Hacking. The term refers to exploring …
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Strengthening embedded system security with PUF enhanced cryptographic engines
… security and help it leapfrog efforts made by hackers around the world. During this time, an analysis of modern mobile security research was conducted. The research presented also includes research conducted on Physical Unclonable Functions and their impact to the world of mobile security. …
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