Monday, December 8, 2008

Objective: Students will learn that hacking is illegal

Assign Yourself: No Homework

DO NOW: Answer & post to your blog:  Hackers do what they do for a number of reasons. What might be some common reasons why teens hack? What are some likely consequences? Can hacking ever be ethical?

Mission:

1)  Read all of "LEARN" ac187-ac189

2)  Read one of the 15 stories on "teen hacking"

• Grey hat hair hacker suspect charged in Maserati extortion case (23 September 2008)
• MySpace celebrity hacker downs hacking forum (7 December 2007)
• Grifters find rich pickings on social networking sites (17 May 2007)
• MySpace hackers avoid extortion rap (27 February 2007)
• Wired editor smokes out MySpace pedo (16 October 2006)
• MySpace phishing scam targets music fans (14 October 2006)
• Social networking site fined for gathering children's data (11 September 2006)
• Social sites a breeding ground for malware: report (10 August 2006)
• MySpace adware attack hits hard (21 July 2006)
• Crime agency asks kids to explain social networking (5 July 2006)
• Comment MySpace, a place without MyParents (3 July 2006)
• Interview Chat sites must take care of their kids (29 June 2006)
• Opinion MySpace case opens security can of worms (28 June 2006)
• Hacking students will need background checks (19 June 2006)
• MySpace to auction off its search (14 June 2006)
• Billy Bragg prompts Myspace rethink (8 June 2006)
• Man accused of crashing UBS servers (8 June 2006)
• Phishers aim to hook MySpace users (5 June 2006)
• Interactive TV to capture MySpace generation (25 May 2006)
• Six startups from the Web 2.0 swamp (24 May 2006)
• Murdoch wants teenagers'... (3 May 2006)
• MySpace takes down rude profiles (3 April 2006)
• Police find rape suspects on MySpace (27 March 2006)
• Letters Web 2.0: you're not even slightly whelmed (19 October 2005)

3)  Begin typing your newspaper column rough draft.

4)  Post to you blog before the end of the period.