Week 7

 Part One: 

    Our team was able to collaborate over text and phone calls to organize a divide up the work. It was pretty incredible to see some of the video editing technology that can be used to join images and layer audio over the visuals. Over all, it was a pretty smooth process, but with more time and less busy schedules, we would be able to add more polish. 

Part Two:

     For this week I chose "A Rosetta Stone for a lost language". This video was about the Indus people and the attempts to decipher the Indus script. It goes over the competing theories on the meaning of the script. It goes over the clues and patterns and how they a computer model to map these patterns. 

    I also watched "How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket". I talks about how surveillance and has evolved in the digital age. It discusses how surveillance worked in the time when wiretapping was literal and how modern telecom companies design with surveillance in mind. This is in direct contract to the tech companies who are moving in the opposite direction, encrypting their devices beyond even their own reach. Government's opposed this on the basis of needing access during criminal investigations, but the talk discusses how the methods the governments want built in have been compromised before. Vodafone's backdoor was compromised in 2004 by a still unknown actor and Google and Microsoft's backdoors were compromised by the Chinese in 2009. Overall a very fascinating talk that is of importance to all of us today.

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