Thursday, December 15, 2011

Homework #10

The two topics I learned about that I felt were most important were the threats to privacy and e-commerce.
I never knew that there were so many ways to track a computer. Electronic surveillance is the most common of these threats. There are different types of software programs that can track key strokes or visited webpages. Along with electronic surveillance, computer hackers can hack into personal databases and steal personal information such as credit card number and social security numbers. Phishing is another, less detectable, way of gaining entrance to personal information by posing as a trustworthy entity. Usually these emails come from websites that want you to buy something or confirm information.
E-commerce is a topic that has expanded all over the world and is becoming more and more advanced. Being a management major, I believe it is important for me to know both sides of e-commerce. It is an easy way to expose your company to many cliental that would not usually see your product. Also it allows you to trace your product from the warehouse until it reaches the consumer.
Coming from a business school, it is important to be aware of how to operate our own business as well being able to walk into a position knowing how to use their system. This corse is a great college requirement.

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