Essay 2

NASA to encrypt data after its latest laptop loss

Brief description

This news is about that a laptop and documents were stolen from a locked vehicle of one of its employees at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. The machine was password protected, but the agency acknowledged that the information might still be accessible to hackers since it was not encrypted. As a result, NASA has warned its workers to watch out for bogus messages.

IT System Involved

NASA is the one that is involved because are the ones that are suffering because some important documents and laptop has been stolen from a locked vehicle and the machine was password protected but is not enough protected so the hackers can unscramble very easy this machine and have access to it.

Social and ethical significance

Privacy and anonymity because by the stolen laptop and the documents the hackers may know a lot of important things from the NASA and also it could be security because the NASA need to improve their password protected for the hacker to be difficult to access to it.

Areas of impacts

Legal and political because the laptop and the documents were stolen the NASA should demand that and the hackers are going to be affected just because they were doing things that they don’t have to be doing.