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Assignment One: Information Literacy

Morgan Serio

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Google and Apple have both made the decision to have their operating systems to
have a default setting that encrypts the users data, in terms making it more difficult for
hackers and law enforcement to have access to your private information, according to the
article Google and Apple Encrypt by Default. One of the main reasons this is such a big
deal is due to the recent hacking and releasing of nude photographs of celebrities. Apple
device users will have this default encryption available to them through IOS8. Google
device users will have this default in new Android device released. Although Google did
announce that they have had this encryption data available to users for over three years
but not set automatically like it will be soon.
Ive found two other articles on the same topic as the one summarized above. I
used the Google search engine to find one; Newest Androids Will Join IPhones in
Offering Default Encryption, Blocking Police. I found the other article; Android L Will
Offer Default Encryption Just like IOS8, using the search engine Bing. Both of the
search engines each came up with both of the articles, so they are both good engines for
that reason. I surprisingly liked Bing a little bit better only because it did not have any
links to advertisements when Google had many. But in the end they are both good at
doing what they were made to do, find information for you.

The article; Android L Will Offer Default Encryption Just like IOS8, was written/
updated on September 19, 2014 at 21:10 PDT. The topic of the article is security with
mobile devices and the electronic information that the mobile devices hold. The author of
this article is Leon Spencer. Leon Spencer is a journalist for the ZDNet website,
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according to his professional bibliography on ZDNet he covers enterprise technology
and start-ups from ZDNets Sydney newsroom. He has also written many other articles
about technology, all of this leads me to believe that he is a qualified journalist. I also
believe that this information in the article is accurate because there are other articles on
the same topic with pretty much the same information in them. I am not sure if this article
has been tested for accuracy. This article was written to inform users of mobile devices of
new technology that can help protect them from important personal information being
accessed by hackers and even law enforcement. This article may be somewhat bias due to
the mention of the leak of nude celebrity photographs from iCloud.
The keywords I used to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of security in
the CCBC library were security and technology. I used the ProQuest database to conduct
my search for scholarly journal articles on this topic. I used it because I knew how to use
it and knew that it would have a large multitude of results for me to look thorough.
Finding an Internet article was much easier than finding a scholarly journal article
because all you have to do is search in a search engine such as Google or Bing, then you
have a lot of options for stories related to what you searched and they start with most
recent stories so you have the most up to date information. As opposed to going
somewhere like ProQuest to find a scholarly journal article the articles arent as up to
date but you do have a lot to chose from and they are probably more reliable because the
authors that write those are very smart people who are published writers in educational
books.
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Works Cited in MLA Format
Miller, Joe. "Google and Apple Encrypt by Default." BBC News. N.p., 19 Sept. 2014.
Web. 21 Sept. 2014. <http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29276955>.

Nearon, Bruce H. "Information Technology Security Engagements: An Evolving
Specialty." The CPA J ournal 70.7 (2000): 28-33. ProQuest. Web. 21 Sep. 2014.
Spencer, Leon. "Android L Will Offer Default Encryption Just like IOS 8 | ZDNet."
ZDNet. N.p., 19 Sept. 2014. Web. 21 Sept. 2014. <http://www.zdnet.com/android-l-
will-offer-default-encryption-just-like-ios-8-7000033855/>.

Strickland, Lee S., and Laura E. Hunt. "Technology, Security, and Individual
Privacy: New Tools, New Threats, and New Public Perceptions." J ournal of the
American Society for I nformation Science and Technology 56.3 (2005): 221-34.
ProQuest. Web. 21 Sep. 2014.
Timberg, Craig. "Newest Androids Will Join IPhones in Offering Default
Encryption, Blocking Police." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 18 Sept.
2014. Web. 21 Sept. 2014. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-
switch/wp/2014/09/18/newest-androids-will-join-iphones-in-offering-default-
encryption-blocking-police/>.

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