Designing the Public Sphere: Information Technologies and the Politics of Mediation

Peter-Paul Verbeek’s article (“Technologies, Mediation and the Onlife World.”), discusses great information about information technologies and its evolution through technology and the laws being inputted around it through time. Topic Question: How should markets, businesses, groups, and individuals be regulated or limited differently in the face of diminishing state power and the intelligification (Verbeek, p217)…

The “Short Arm” of Predictive Knowledge

Author Jonas writes about this concept throughout the article. Here is a synopsis of what we mean by “The Short Arm of Predictive Knowledge.” The “short arm of predictive knowledge” refers to the limited foresight humans historically needed when acting in the world. In the absence of global technological platforms such as the Internet and…

The Human Factor in Cybersecurity

Maintaining a cybersecurity workplace with a limited budget is a very important responsibility to fulfill the most basic requirements such as protection, defense, and a stable work environment as much as possible. This can be achieved by focusing on the parts that each general cybersecurity environment is struggling with, improving and striving to work on….

SCADA Systems

SCADA Systems are great combinations of software and hardware that are used in onlyindustrial environments. It can also be associated with critical infrastructure systems to assist in countering attacks and which, while operational, can be vulnerable to attacks sent to critical infrastructure systems due to lack of planning or without consideration resulting in compromise of…