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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Tutorial 6 and 7 - 6 facts learned

Tutorial 6
1) I learned the difference between 'push' and 'pull' technology.
-Push technology: Content sent to users who request it. Chat, social networks, blogs
-Pull technology: Content pulled to a subscribers computer. Podcasts, newsgroups, etc

2) I learned that 'Usenet' was one of the worlds first large, distributed information databases

3) A distributed information database is a database whose information is distributed to different sites around the world.

Tutorial 7
4) I learned that protection of assets using non-physical means (such as passwords) is known as 'logical security'.

5) A packet flooding attack, or a denial of service (DoS) attack, is the most common necessity attack

6) A clickstream is data stored by a cookie about the links you click while visiting a website

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