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Review of wiki-page: OSINT – theory and practice

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Today, we're going to review a wiki-page, which is about OSINT. We also will look through its strong and weak points, and by the end we evaluate how well this page is made and give some comments about it.         OSINT wiki-page Image source     The topic The topic chosen for this paper is OSINT, it is an abbreviation of Open-source intelligence. It is a process of gathering intelligence from open sources, where intelligence is a military term of valuable information. The chosen topic is closely related to the cybersecurity field and in fact one of the SIGINT's subcategories. Also because of started conflict between Russia and Ukraine this topic is more valuable than ever.     Content The wiki-page clearly shows popular way of gaining the intelligence through different open sources. For example, social media, exposed databases, etc. That wiki-page also shows the smart technique of linking data to specific person or organization and creating data t...

Subjective relativism and IT

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Today we are going to talk about subjective relativism and how it projected onto IT industry. Also, there will be some examples that shows it in its full form and in the end why it is tricky to deal with.         About Subjective Relativism Image source It is an ethical theory, that main implication is that everyone have their own point of view, and when for someone something is seen right, for other person it could be wrong. The Subjective Relativism justifies the position where both those arguments are right and wrong at the same time.     IT example As for the example of it happening in IT sphere there could be when the manager is wanting their programmers to work faster because the feature they are working with "aren't that big". However, for programmers the size of a feature isn't measured by how much code they wrote to it, but how much work has done to it working correctly. The code could simply be 200 lines wide, however because of the amount of logi...