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Learning Log 4

They say that the human mind is the most complex computing device in the world (although that analogy is simply not true, since a brain isn’t really a computer as a certain article says that a brain does not process information as opposed to a computer). A three-gigahertz processor asks for directions on what to do three billion times per second, seems like a lot, then add the fact that a single computer nowadays require more than one of these processors. It almost seems insurmountable, until the brain comes in. The brain with its nuances, its folds, its ability to simply do the irrational , easily surmounting these processors. Were we to rank these processors (although the article attribute to above says that the brain does not process info), the brain would always come out on top. Ironically enough, in a security infrastructure, the brain, and the human who owns it, is the system’s greatest vulnerability. Unfortunately, the thing that makes us humans – irrationality, from wh

Learning Log 3

I realized that laws can either aid you or jail you from your doings. Each law has their own category making them somewhat unique from each other. The laws discussed which are statutory, administrative, common, civil, criminal. I learned that a court would follow the precedent cases to make a decision. For example, the court decides to give lethal injection to a murderer. The next case would have a large chance of giving a lethal injection to a murderer since it has been done before. This is called the common law and it could replace statutory laws. Privacy, a subjective term in every individual. Privacy can depend on one's culture that is why the thought of privacy is complex. Laws of privacy can even contradict to others. A law may aid you, another may jail you.