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The case is basically about IP addresses and privacy. Jersey Diesel’s shipping address and password had been changed on the company’s website by an unknown person. The owner suspected that employee Shirley Reid was behind it since he had argued with her on the day that the changes had been made. He went to the police and they sent a subpoena to Comcast, the ISP of the captured IP address. It belonged to Shirley Reid. However, the subpoena was filed under the name of a case that didn’t actually exist. It was sent to the Supreme Court, who found the evidence unlawful since it had been obtained without a proper warrant. The Court ruled that internet users have the right to a certain expectation of privacy.

Privacy is a big deal on the internet, even if we sometimes seem not to notice. Facebook and myspace and whatever other websites that are out there make it seem very open. But probably all of us do stuff on the internet that we wouldn’t want to become public knowledge. In NJ v. Reid, the Court found that not only was the evidence obtained illegally, to do so violated Reid’s right to privacy on the internet. The company owner and the police had demanded information about Reid that only her ISP would normally have access to. Comcast gave them her phone number, address, email address, account number, IP address assigned, the type of service provided, and her method of payment.

Sufficient justification and due legal process play a huge part in this. If anyone could have that information just by asking, how safe would the internet be? I shudder to think. Users should be able to expect that their actions are confidential when in their own homes because they give their information to an ISP in order to use certain technology, not to have their personal information spread around.

It really is. Again, having a negligible background in computers, I’m having some difficulty following everything. I feel like I’m trying to solve on of those little sphere puzzles with about twenty pieces and I’m trying to hold all the pieces at once, but every time I pick up a new one I drop one of the others. I think something like this would be easier to learn if you already knew where some of the pieces belong and how they fit. Then you would have a frame of reference to fit the other stuff into.

There’s not one specific topic that is hard for me to grasp; it’s the overwhelming amount of information and the process of connecting it into one big whole. Usually just taking notes in class is enough for me to learn. Not reviewing my notes, just taking them. But I don’t know if that will work for something this complicated. My forensics teacher suggested reorganizing new information as another way of making it stick because the more you handle it, the more you remember. So I’ll probably try that and find out how well it works.

My previous knowledge of the internet: computers talk. So let’s see how much I can stuff into my brain before it explodes.

My name is Kim. I’m most recently from Fairfax, Virginia and I’m a computer science major. I am the oldest of four kids. I have two sisters, a brother, and a chocolate labrador. I like puzzles, sci-fi/fantasy books, drawing, and writing. I enjoy doing tech work for almost any kind of stage production and I was a lighting designer for my high school drama group. Forensic science fascinates me, but I don’t really care for CSI. I tend to be shy, so I don’t talk much. And I consider myself a little bit of a cynic.

As for my expectations of cbhp… I expect a challenge. I expect to learn and grow a lot. I joined the program because I was able to, basically. And since I grew up outside the U.S. I missed most of the computer know-how that most of my peers seem to have. I’ve tried to recover lost ground, but I definitely want to learn more. (Incidentally, this isn’t why I’m a CS major.) Also, it scares me how much people use computers while they have almost no idea what they’re doing from a technical standpoint. Other than that, I don’t know. I came to the program late, so I might have missed some information.

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