CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Transport Layer Security, Verisign, Arpanet

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Why should you become computer literate? just by being a member of society you already know quite a bit about computers. Computer literate: being familiar enough with computers that you understand their capabilities and limitations and know how to use them. Avoiding hackers and viruses: both can threaten a computer"s security, knowing how hackers operate can help you avoid falling prey to them. Protecting your privacy: knowing how to protect yourself from things such as identity theft. Understanding the real risks: being able to separate the real privacy and security risks from things you don"t have to worry about. Using the internet and the web wisely: finding information and finding good information are two different things- being computer literate make the internet a powerful tool, and find the information they need effectively. Avoiding online annoyances: knowing how to avoid being overwhelmed by spam or junk mail. There are some software programs you should install to avoid these annoyances.