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Unit One: Section Unit One: Section AA

Tasks for This ClassTasks for This Class

Get the background information

Have a analysis of the organization

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…”

--William Gibson, Neuromancer

HackerHacker

Old School Hackers Old School Hackers

Script Kiddies, or Cyber-Punks Script Kiddies, or Cyber-Punks

Professional Criminals, or Crackers Professional Criminals, or Crackers

Coders and Virus WritersCoders and Virus Writers

IP Spoofing IP Spoofing

occurs when an attacker disguises his/her occurs when an attacker disguises his/her originating host server or router as that of another originating host server or router as that of another host or routerhost or router.

Understanding the Understanding the

Organization Organization

an account or a recital of an event or a an account or a recital of an event or a series of events, either true or fictitious.series of events, either true or fictitious.

consciously madeconsciously made definite formal developmentdefinite formal development a firmness in constructiona firmness in construction unity in plot, theme, character, tone, unity in plot, theme, character, tone,

mood, even, occasionally, in stylemood, even, occasionally, in style

StorStoryy

get closer to storyget closer to story

point of viewpoint of view charactercharacter plotplot structurestructure

Point of viewPoint of view

the voice and vision through which the voice and vision through which the events of a story reach the the events of a story reach the readerreader

Two main kindsTwo main kinds

narrator as a participant (writing in narrator as a participant (writing in the first person)the first person)

narrator as a nonparticipant (writing narrator as a nonparticipant (writing in the third person)in the third person)

CharactersCharacters

Protagonist Protagonist

the chief character who strives in a the chief character who strives in a storystory

Antagonist Antagonist

the character who is directly the character who is directly opposed to the protagonistopposed to the protagonist

vs.

Tsutomu Shimomura Kevin Mitnick

CharactersCharacters

Plot Plot

an order of events in a story, the an order of events in a story, the emphasis falling on causalityemphasis falling on causality

TimeTime

PlacePlace

CharacterCharacter

BackgroundBackground

ConflictConflict

CrisisCrisis

ResolutionResolution

ConflictConflict

The struggle which grows out of The struggle which grows out of the interplay of the two opposing the interplay of the two opposing forces in a plot.forces in a plot.

Essential patterns of conflictEssential patterns of conflict

character against charactercharacter against character

character against societycharacter against society

character vs. some material forcecharacter vs. some material force

character vs. some supernatural entitycharacter vs. some supernatural entity

Crisis and DenouementCrisis and Denouement

Crisis is the point at which the Crisis is the point at which the opposing forces that create the opposing forces that create the conflict interlock in the decisive conflict interlock in the decisive action on which the plot will turn.action on which the plot will turn.

Denouement is the final unraveling Denouement is the final unraveling of the plot.of the plot.

Structure Structure

While plot tends to move the While plot tends to move the reader along, structure tends to reader along, structure tends to delay the movement so as to make delay the movement so as to make him pause to reflect.him pause to reflect.

Understanding the storyUnderstanding the story

How do you deal with the text?

The first section

conflict

main characters

background information

man versus man

the narrator and the hacker

a. someone broke into the narrator’s computers.

c someone was challenging the narrator.

d. the narrator was going to take action.

b. The log file summaries were stolen

The second sectionMeasures I took

--- put digitized phone messages on the Internet as a bait

--- keep in touch with FBI

--- set up monitoring system

Compare and Contrast

---- in common a fascination with computers

---- in discrepancy write technical programs

for company

sentenced to prison

The third sectionHow did the man get caught

---- monitor from NETCOM

---- found he was logging on

---- reported to FBI

The fourth section

The result of the duel.

---- My first face-to-face meeting with my opponent

Review the Internet Security IssueReview the Internet Security Issue

Read the articles “the Online World” and “the Hacking”.

Online ReadingOnline Reading