Historical Map of Utah-Mormon Settlement 1847-1896

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Familiarizing Myself with Tools and Services

After familiarizing myself with some of the tools we will be using in the second half of the class, I have a much better understanding of how to use these tools. Although, I am fairly comfortable using Google Docs and Google Maps, I found the tutorials very helpful. I had no idea users could do so much on these programs. I find Zotero to be the least intuitive of the programs and spent some time further acquainting myself with it.

Evaluation of My Computer Security Practices

After reading the articles assigned for this week, it has come to my attention that I exercise terrible computer security practices. I had no idea it was so dangerous to use the same password over and over again but it totally makes sense to me now that I think about it. I always try to use a combination of numbers along with uppercase and lowercase letters when creating a password. However, I had never considered the fact that most people probably put capital letters at the beginning of a password and numbers at the end.

The article by Mat Honan reassured me that there is some level of refuge in the iCloud. Though I do plan to use the computer security practice tips I have read about nonetheless. I will start backing up my computer and cellphone regularly. I plan to generate an original password for each account I create, especially the ones containing sensitive information. When I craft these passwords I am going to break my habit of using a capital letter at the beginning of the password and a number sequence at the end. Instead, I will attempt to construct passwords of a higher complexity.