Before Class:

Read

• Mat Honan, “How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking,”Wired (2012).
• Mat Honan, “How I Resurrected My Digital Life After an Epic Hacking,” Wired (2012)
• Dan Goodin, “Why passwords have never been weaker,” Ars Technica, August 20, 2012.
• James Baker, “Preserving Your Research Data,” The Programming Historian, April 30, 2014.
• Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” American Historical Review 108, 3 (June 2003): 735–762.

Do

• Explore GMU’s Basic Security Practices.
• Library of Congress, “Personal Archiving,” part of the Digital Preservation site.
• Check out the Wayback Machine in the Internet Archive.

After Class

For this week, I want you to write a blog post about your proposed project (you will have to have my approval first from last week). You should tell us why you picked that topic, your questions and if they have changed, the challenges you’ve faced so far with your topic, and what you have left to do. (200-500 words)

DUE APRIL 22 BY 5PM