* I tried researching about security surrounding mapping mashups and I couldn't find a lot of current information. The information I found is about 2 years old and concerns the businesses that are using mashups and not the users. For instance, there is certain security put in place for businesses so third-party users cannot hack into their business and destroy or steal documents. Security is needed here because mashups integrate information from two different producers. When reading about business security the articles read more as "this is what we are doing to see if this helps the problem." It didn't sound as though there was a definite form of security that worked.
* The one piece of information that I found on user security is that mashup sites don't have rules stating how people's personal information can be used. With this being said I was curious to see if any of you could think of rules that you feel would be appropriate or are needed for mashup sites in order to keep people's information safe?
Angela,
ReplyDeleteYou raise a very interesting point that they won't have user security (for a single person) however for a company they have user security. Why will they protect a company over a person? Either way something bad could happen to either user or soemthing could go wrong.
I think the security issue here is the same as for all computers and is mentioned in discussion. What they call 'Egress Security' stopping information from all applications leaving the network.
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Also, I think mapping Mashups would be hard to make safe.
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Both of you have very valid points. I personally feel that before personal information about a person is given away or displayed it should be approved by the person themselves.
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