This document discusses several issues related to computers including security, privacy, health, and environmental impacts. It examines how to authenticate and protect data through passwords, firewalls, and encryption. It also looks at what personal information is collected, how computers have both improved and harmed health through topics like carpal tunnel and internet addiction, and how computers can both help and hurt the environment through recycling, energy use, and resource consumption.

1. Computer Issues: Security, Privacy, Health, & Environmental

2. Security What is more valuable, the hardware or the data? How valuable is it?

3. Authentication How do you prove to a computer who you are? What you know What you have Who you are

4. Security - Physical Lock the building Lock the room Secure the pc

5. Security – Data Protection Passwords Firewalls Encryption Virus protection Smart computer use – don’t click on junk!

6. Privacy What information does the government collect? What information does private industry collect?

7. Health How have computers improved our health? How have computers made our health worse?

8. Health - Topics Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Eyestrain Internet Addiction

9. Environmental Issues How have computers improved the environment? How have computers made the environment worse?

10. Environmental Topics Recycling Energy Star Using less paper Using less electricity

11. Assignment Technology Topics Assignment