Bank offering online services
- Give examples
- Online bill payment
- Checking balance, credit card bill, mortgage bills
- Cashing checks online
- Wiring money
- Evaluate the IT system
- Costs
- Possible security risks
- Dependent on system being up at all times
- Benefits
- More convenient
- Easy access to bills, money
- Easier to pay bills on time b/c no chance of lost in mail
- More secure than mailing checks
- S+E issues
- Reliability: has to be up all the time to work
- Integrity: data loss that destroys a bank account would be catastrophic
- Security: critical to ensure no-one steals users' account information and then their money
- Authenticity: making sure everyone who logs into an account is actually the account holder
- People and Machines: some people might not like being forced to use an online system
- Privacy and Anonymity: protecting user information
- Control: who can access, and when
Multimedia + Education
- Define pixel
- A point on the screen which varies in color to change the appearance of something. More and smaller pixels equal higher resolution.
- Define resolution
- The number of pixels in an image. Lower resolution means a blurry image, while high resolution results in a sharp, clear picture.
- School often use images to present historical topics. Many of these images are copyrighted works of famous artists. A class of ITGS students is asked to manipulate these images to change how history is presented. Consider the following:
- Describe the process of editing an image.
- First, take the image and import it into a photo editing system. Then, use the program to move the pixels around and recolor them until the image looks like you want it to.
- Does it fall under fair use?
- As long as it is not resold, it is for educational purposes and therefore is fair use.
- What social/ethical considerations should be made?
- Do not resell the image, cite who made it in the first place, make it clear that this is not legal outside of an educational setting.
- Bonus question: what does GIF stand for and what is it?
- Graphical Interchange Format. A file format of images, best resolution.
