LIS3353 - Technologies for Information Professionals
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Week 10 - Software III - Encryption
The tech
How internet encryption works | Data protection | The Guardian
Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (full version) - YouTube
TrueCrypt audit shows no sign of NSA backdoors, just some minor glitches | PCWorld
What is Cryptographic Hashing? MD5, SHA, and More
https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-password-rules-security-experts-live-by-in-2025-the-last-one-might-surprise-you/
time permitting:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/21/cryptocurrency-explainer/
https://mojoauth.com/blog/what-are-the-limitations-of-passkeys#introduction-the-promise-and-the-catch-of-passkeys
https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/password-managers-zero-knowledge-encryption-flaws-2026/
And finally, the best thing I've ever read on passwords.
../LIS5411/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Week 9 - The Project!
https://www.xda-developers.com/understand-why-people-self-host-media/
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/self-hosting/
https://romanzipp.com/blog/why-a-homelab-why-self-host
Review: Tech Guides:On Docker
Self-Hosted Ideas and Resources
Week 8 - Software II - From Compression to Thinking Machines
What is code?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ (ADA-Archival link)
http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/ (ADA-Archival link)
What programming is
http://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html (ADA-Archival link)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200901073754/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/18/why-we-still-need-to-study-the-humanities-in-a-stem-world/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-does-file-compression-work/
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/image-compression (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-conversational-ais-like-chatgpt-work-ivan-voras/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://weaviate.io/blog/how-ai-creates-art (ADA-Archival link)
Longer:
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://futurism.com/singularity-explain-it-to-me-like-im-5-years-old (ADA-Archival link)
vs
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer (ADA-Archival link)
Week 7 - Freely Available Information
The basics:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190320125534/https://www.gameacademy.com/the-four-types-of-intellectual-property-protection/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/27/theres-endless-choice-but-youre-not-listening-fans-quitting-spotify-to-save-their-love-of-music?utm_source=pocket-newtab (ADA-Archival link)
CURRENT:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/stable-diffusion-copyright-lawsuits-could-be-a-legal-earthquake-for-ai/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/streaming-libraries-dvds-blu-rays.html (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down (ADA-Archival link)
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/05/31/why-sci-hub-matters/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.wired.com/2016/04/stealing-publicly-funded-research-isnt-stealing/http://computationalculture.net/article/book-piracy-as-peer-preservation
https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/lets-compete-on-innovation/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.eff.org/wp/unfiltered-how-youtubes-content-id-discourages-fair-use-and-dictates-what-we-see-online (ADA-Archival link)
Piracy?
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537 (ADA-Archival link)
Browse : http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html
(Take special note of the "fifth" fair use factor)
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/10/07/fair-use-decided-who-has-most-money (ADA-Archival link)
TRADEMARK
GNU GPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt (ADA-Archival link)
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23617624/pluto-tv-dmca-mpa-github-playlists (ADA-Archival link)
Week 6 - Free (and Open Source) Software
https://www.linux.com/what-is-linux/ (ADA-Archival link)
https://opensource.com/resources/linux (ADA-Archival link)
https://lifehacker.com/tech/self-host-apps (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.hacktivate.app/why-teach-kids-to-hack (ADA-Archival link)
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/ (ADA-Archival link)
For the Practical ☺
https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/07/bash-salaries.aspx (ADA-Archival link)
https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-to-get-things-done (ADA-Archival link)
https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/what-is-bash-used-for/ (ADA-Archival link)
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