Blown to Bits Chapter 2

Read pages 19-31 of Blown to Bits Chapter 2 and answer the following questions.

Short answer

1. Page 20 “although Orwell’s Big Brother had his cameras, he did not have search engines”.  What are computers  able to do with all of the bits of data that you leave in your digital footprints? A single phrase is not sufficient to answer this question.

   2. Read the last paragraph of page 21 and the beginning of page 22. What are the four points this chapter is going to discuss?

   3. What is the difference between a digital footprint vs a digital fingerprint?

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   4. Describe the incident of Jeffrey Berman

   
   

   5. How is puppy poo girl situation different?

   
   

   6. (page 24) Explain why the Harry Potter fan who released a copy of the Harry Potter book might not be as anonymous as they thought.

   7. Give three examples of where RFID tags are used and for what purpose.
   
   8. (page 27) What is an EDR and what does it do?
   
   9. Are you concerned about the digital footprints and fingerprints that you leave? Why or why not?