Edvin Toome ICS0006

 Hacking has been around for a very long time. Normal people see it as some nerds quickly typing stuff in terminal console. In reality, it is much more complex, and hackers have their own ethics. Pekka Himanen in his Hacker Ethic has proposed that the hacker ways are in fact a new 'step up' from Max Weber's classical Protestant work ethics, just as the latter was a step up from the older pre-Protestant attitudes. In my opinion, passion, freedom, work ethic, nethic, money ethic, caring and creativity are all essential parts of hackers' values in the current world. Passion drives every interest that there is. Without passion, there is no motivation, therefore no results. A hacker must be passionate in order to be sucessful. Freedom is required to be able to explore. Without freedom, there would be no creative exploration and interesting new results. Work ethic is important in any part of life. Without it, results can not be achieved nor the progress be made. Work ethic di...

 In 2018, Russia tried to block Telegram, after it Pavel Durov rejected to meet the new Russian's law requirements. The Yarovaya's law, which requires operators to save all voice and text messages of their customers for six months, and their internet traffic for 30 days, went into effect in Russia on July 1, 2018. The position of Moscow's Meschansky district court is that, in accordance with the Yarovaya's law, social networks are required to store encryption keys from all user correspondence and provide them to Russia's Federal Security Service upon request. Telegram management insisted that this requirement is technically impossible, because keys of opt-in secret chats are stored on users' devices and are not in Telegram's possession. Pavel Durov, Telegram's co-founder, said that the  Federal Security Service demands violate the constitutional rights of russians to the privacy of correspondence. On 13 April 2018 Moscow's Tagansky District Court has...

Estonia can be considered one of the most developed countries in terms of cyber security. According to Global Cybersecurity Index, Estonia is in TOP-5 in the world in terms of cybersecurity.  The Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) is a trusted reference that measures the commitment of countries to cybersecurity at a global level – to raise awareness of the importance and different dimensions of the issue. As cybersecurity has a broad field of application, cutting across many industries and various sectors, each country’s level of development or engagement is assessed along five pillars – Legal Measures,  Technical Measures, Organizational Measures,  Capacity Development, and  Cooperation – and then aggregated into an overall score. Estonia is the first nation in the world to implement electronic voting, which is a gigantic cybersecurity challenge - to provide both anonimity and trust, which are key elements of fair election. It has a well-developed system of ID-cards a...