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Module 10

Welcome to Module 10. This week we will begin our two week jaunt through Communications: Networks and Safeguards, Chapter 6 in your textbook.
What's happening this week:
Begin reading Chapter 6 in your textbook. Next week you will be quizzed on the material.
Participate in the Discussion Board. The question will be posted for you Tuesday morning (March 31st). As usual you will have until Sunday at midnight (April 5th).
View the lecture: it will be recorded and posted this Wednesday, April 1st. (No fooling!)
This week's links to review:
Remember hand-held GPS devices? Just another gadget that today's cellphones are making obsolete.  Now you can track the location of anyone's phone with GPS, for a small fee. What will this mean for personal privacy?  
http://www.livephonetracking.com/
If your work lets you work from home, chances are you are required to log in to your work's Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access your company's business related data. How does a VPN work?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094865.shtml
So why are unsecured wireless networks so dangerous to access the Internet from? Two reasons: Wardriving and Packet-Sniffing.
Wardriving- http://www.wardrive.net/wardriving/faq
Packet-Sniffing- http://sectools.org/sniffers.html