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1) Apples Tim Cook Does Some Security Straight Talking Posted Sep 17, 2014
by Matthew Panzarino.

2) The article Apples Tim Cook Does Some Security Straight Talking is about
how Tim Cook, Apples new CEO, makes a more clear statement about the
security issues Apple has been faced with following the celebrity nude picture
hackings. The article highlights a portion of Tim Cooks statement that he
released on behalf of Apple regarding their business model and how We, as in
Apple, believe in telling you up front exactly whats going to happen to your
personal information and asking for your permission before you share it with us.
And if you change your mind later, we make it easy to stop sharing with us.
Basically this statement shifts the liability from Apple to the user after agreeing to
the terms and conditions. This offers a feeling of every man for them self rather
than be protected by the company but we are reminded that Apple is a
corporation. The article also talks about how Tim Cook reiterates that Apple has
never collaborated with any government nor given access to any of their servers.
Giving Apple users peace of mind. The article concludes with new information
about the most recent software update, IOS 8. With the update, data will be
encrypted and Apple will not possess the encryption key. Meaning that law
enforcement will no longer request decryption to retrieve evidence. Overall the
article outlines the damage control done by Apple following all of the recent
hackings.


3) Bing.com The Apple Security Hole Keeps Getting Worse By Dino Grandoni,
The Huffington Post, Posted: 02/24/2014 11:50 am EST Updated: 02/26/2014
4:59 pm EST

Dogpile.com Apple Releases Security Update For Mac OS X Mavericks By
Eli Blumenthal, USA TODAY, Posted: 6:21 p.m. EST February 25, 2014

Compared to Bing, Dogpile.com was a much inferior search engine. The top
searches that were posted were not recent and the top six or so searches were
irrelevant to the topic searched. The search done on Bing was a huge
improvement from Dogpile, but still not as amazing as on Google. When I
searched on Bing the first of the page was advertisements for Apple security
not articles about Apple Securty. Bing also was a lot quicker to display the search
results compared to Dogpile and it was also more visually appeasing and looked
well maintained. Dogpile looked old and almost like a website that nowadays I
would be scared to go on for the fear of it giving me a virus. Overall, Bing was
the better search engine when compared with Dogpile.



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5) Keywords: Apple Security

Database #1 ProQuest, I chose this database because it was listed under the
top five databases for CCBC.

Database #2 Gale, Opposing View Points, I Chose this one because it too was
under the top five databases for CCBC.


6) The articles in the CCBC database were the preferred articles for me. Initially
they took longer to get to since I had to enter through the schools website,
chose a database, then type my keywords as opposed to the internet articles
where all that I had to do was type Googles web address then the keywords.
In terms of viewing search results they both displayed relatively quick. The
journal articles were actually timelier compared to the Internet articles. One
of my Journal articles was published on September 5, 2014 as opposed to the
Internet articles, which were both published in February. Both the journal
articles and the Internet articles stood strong in authority. The Internet
articles were from USA TODAY and The Huffington Post, while the journal
TRAAP
Time It was written on 2/24/14 at 11:50 am EST and updated 2/26/14 at 4:49 pm
EST.
Relevance The article was relevant to the topic I searched, Apple Security. It talked
about how a new software update would allow a hacker intercept email and
other secure information sent from iphones and ipads as well as through
safari on Macs.
Authority Dino Grandoni is technology editor at The Huffington Post. He Graduated
from Columbia University and previously wrote for The Atlantic Wire.
Dino seems to be well qualified to write about this topic given that all of
his other articles were tech articles and also that The Huffington Post is a
reputable source.
Accurate The information in the article is trustworthy and is supported by evidence
from security expert Ashkan Soltani. The article also included statements
from Apple released in accordance to their software security fail and screen
shots of the problem in code from Ashkan Soltani.
Purpose The article was written to inform the readers about Apples security fail.
The article explained the issue and went on to demonstrate how it could
affect the average person using free Wi-Fi. The article was not biased in
any way, it just simply outlined the facts and was updated when a
resolution was found.
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articles were from CNN Wire and USA TODAY. I felt more at ease using the
database and it provided many more reputable articles. When using the
Internet search engines, I found that an unsettling amount of the page was
advertisements or articles will little relevancy.

7) Works Cited

"Apple to beef up security measures after nude photo leak." CNN Wire 5 Sept.
2014. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

Blumenthal, Eli. "Apple Releases Security Update for Mac OS X Mavericks."
USA Today. N.p., 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

Grandoni, Dino. "The Apple Security Hole Keeps Getting Worse." The
Huffington Post. N.p., 24 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

Panzarino, Matthew. "Apple's Tim Cook Does Some Security Straight Talking."
Tech Crunch. N.p., 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

Swartz, Jon. "Security Scares Mount for Apple Macintosh Users." USA TODAY:
0. Feb 24 2006. ProQuest. Web. 21 Sep. 2014 .