Tuesday, September 18, 2012

First Blog Post 9/18


Hi, my name is Nick Cornell. I created this blog for class called Living in a Networked World, which explores the different risks, privileges, powers and horrors of how far technology has come. I have enjoyed this course so far as I appreciate all the ways that technology has impacted my life; however, do not think about many of the different privacy and risk topics discussed in class. So far, I thought the most interesting thing we’ve seen was the discussion on “Re-Captchas” which put two words together to help the computer distinguish words it cannot read. It does this by having two words, one that the computer already knows and one it does not. If you get the one word correct that it knows, it will store the information of the other one until around six people get it correct. From there, the computer will be able to read this word all thanks to people who are just trying to log onto something such as email, Facebook, etc. 

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