Kristo Tammsoo SPEAIT

 Pekka Himanen quotes seven different values that are applicable to hackers of the modern age.  The first one is passion. If you do not have that certain passion in etched into you then you would probably burn out quickly. It is passion that drives the hackers to do what they do, they have the constant urge to try to explore, exploit and create.  The second one is freedom. A feeling of freedom is produced when you realize that you have the ability to create or break into anything you want. This kind of links into the first value, because freedom often drives our passion. The third one is work ethic. A modern day hacker definitely needs to have a good work ethic in order to succeed, because the work is not often easy and you need to work relentlessly if you want to overcome certain obstacles. The fourth one is money ethic. It is often important to realize that money is not everything. To quote Joker from the Batman franchise: "It's not about the money, it's about sending a...

 Online censorship and privacy is a delicate matter, because it is often hard to draw a line between right and wrong. For example, if someone is plotting a plan to shoot up the school with their friends in a Facebook messenger group chat, then obviously we would want the authorities to intervene and stop the potential threat. But for them to intervene they would need to have access to everyone's chat logs and they would need to be constantly scanning for suspicious activity. But that would make the platform less attractive to potential customers, because you most likely would not want the authorities to be sniffing around everything you message to your peers online.  Take for example an online forum board that is called 4chan. You can post nearly everything there without the fear of being censored. Almost all content you can imagine is posted on there, but of course it is not complete anarchy. There are strict rules in place and if there is any violation of those rules then th...

Todays topic is going to be about IT professionals in Estonia. As of now I am not yet a qualified IT professional, but I hope to be one day. In the past I had no clue as to what the actual job of an IT professional is so I had to ask around and here is what I learned. I was told that if you want to work in IT you better get good at math, you better learn to be patient and you better be ready to work really hard for it. So that is exactly what I did and it seemed to work for me as I am now in the track of pursuing a career in the field of IT. I think that the journey does not have to be that hard or complicated any more. Because we are starting to give kids some basic IT training even from kindergarten. There are toys that are filled with electronics and that can help steer kids in the direction of IT should they have an interest in it.  I also feel like there are some people that do not care for the fast moving pace of technology. For example, there are still plenty of people out t...

 Just because you think that you have good manners and are a good person in general does not give you a free pass to correct everyone else around you. You should be mindful of what you say to other people, whether or it is online or in person. Constantly correcting everyone around you can make you come off as annoying and tiresome. If you see someone making a mistake it comes down to several factors, which can help you decide on how to react to the situation.  If the mistake is potentially dangerous then I feel like it is okay to let the other person know about the consequences their actions can lead to.  If the mistake is harmless then it is okay just to ignore it and move on with your life. Live and let live, right? I see a lot of this in online gaming, especially in games that are team oriented. What I found out was that people are very quick to lash out at other players if they see them making the tiniest of mistakes. I think that a part of this is caused due to the f...

 In the end of the second chapter there is a statement: "Copyright needs to be reformed urgently" and I could not agree more. I've been following a couple of famous YouTubers over the past few years and the topic of copyright laws comes up very often. I've understood from those YouTubers that if your uploaded video contains a copyrighted video or sometimes even a small sound clip then they can force copyright laws on your video and take the entire revenue of the video, even if the copyrighted clip was only a small fraction of the entire video. To me that sounds like stealing in broad daylight and there is nothing you can do about it. You can of course report the issue to YouTube directly, but with the amount of daily videos that are being uploaded to the site you may never get an answer.  In the book they bring out several proposals to help solve the current copyright issues: Moral rights unchanged "Give credit where credit is due" basically sums up the enti...

 Most of what was described in the report post by Pekka Himanen has not changed. Things have stayed more or less same. We still have health care problems in third world countries, we still have a divide amongst the richest and the poorest, and so on.  The author however, was right about the rise of cultural industries. As most of TV, music and other entertainment material is solely contained for online use only. The pandemic that came to us over a year ago has definitely helped to further set this standard in stone. With less people going outside the online e-commerce system has been booming. I think that it is one of the best outcomes, because even in difficult times we found a way to keep the system running. Also with the ability to work from home a lot of employers noticed that the employees are more efficient at their work and the best part about it was that if everyone is working from home then you do not need to pay rent or utility bills for your office. This allowe...

Brief history of communication devices that led us to wireless telecommunication In the past when you wanted to meet someone or plan an activity with them you would have to set the rendezvous in person and you had no certainty, whether the other person would show up or not. But that all changed, because the telephone was invented in the late 1800s and it allowed people to connect over great distances, however it was not available for the general population until mid 20th century. Also, initially it required a physical cable to be present between two phones to be able to call someone on the other end.  That all changed when we got cell phone towers in place and we were able to communicate with other people around the globe. By the end of the 20th century the first thoughts of the world wide web were being tossed around. ARPANET was the first wide-area packet switching network. It later merged with other networks to form the Internet, which is almost essential to life today.  Ch...