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Week 12

 Hacker's Ethics The hacker's ideals/ethics are very much applicable, the difference would have to be the skills and will of an individual. The higher skilled hacker's are gonna be more interested in the ordeal as a whole, making them be curious and creative by itself and what those skills would be used for is dependant on the will. Most likely it's going to be either for money or for completing projects, could also be for both. But the ideal that information should be free and that computers should be used for expressing creativity, freedom and offering solutions that never thought of before is without a doubt what computers should be used for. While being a hacker is a label that is controversial to some, in terms of how one becomes a hacker, the general ideals of a hacker are in place. Skills and attitude about the hacker's ideals is all you should need to define a hacker.

Week 11

 Censorship There still aren't very good algorithms or bots that can scour videos or text properly to filter or outright "delete" content that by polocies should be censored either due to the audience possibly being young or for avoiding conflict and keeping the fires in control. Thus there are fair amount of biases or "favorism" to certain individuals when it comes to punishing people for not following proper censorship when they've agreed to do so. A good amount of cases are reviewed by people themselves and depending on the relationship or favorism the punishment can be little to none, compared to some others. For example on twitch there have been plenty of people saying racial slurs, even amongs the biggest streamers on the platform, but as some get strikes and bans from the platform permanently. The bigger streamers get much lenier treatment, assumably due to it being more damaging than benefitial for the platform owners to outright ban them from the we

Week 10

 Security in Estonia Will be assessing security in estonia through the "Mitnick formula" Mitnick formula: - Technology: networks, firewalls, antiviruses... - Training: awareness of different attacks - Policy: set procedures and requirements Technology Depends on how needed is the cyber defence for certain systems, mostly counted by residual risk and how small it needs to be. If there is a need then implementations of good technology will take place. While most citizens don't take any extra measures that are already in place by default in their devices, the ones that do are either tech nerds or corporate employees. As a company owner you want to have methods to deal with cyber attacks so that the company wouldn't lose face or profits. Training Awareness of social engineering or cyber attacks is about the same as most other countries, if not a bit better, since Estonia is a quite tech oriented country, as an example online voting is a possibility in politics. Giving mo