This lab is designed to encourage you to investigate a number of the topics we discussed in class.
Security Certificates
Go to each of the secure web sites below and examine its security certificate. (In firefox, double-click on the padlock icon at the bottom of the window.) What differences do you notice?
- Smith BannerWeb
- MessageScreen
- Secure Groupwise Web Client
- Hotmail login (follow link and click on 'use advanced security')
Read about getting your own certificate for use with GroupWise. (You shouldn't try to do this now, as it takes some time.)
Wikis
By far the mest known public wiki is the Wikipedia. Anyone can edit the articles there -- even you! Try it now: read the tutorial on editing pages and then go to the sandbox to practice. (A sandbox is a safe place to experiment where you will not hurt anything if you make a mistake.)
If you have expert knowledge on a particular subject, you may even wish to edit one of the regular articles, but this is not part of the lab assignment.
Other Sites
Below appear links to several other sites we discussed in class. These are by no means exhaustive, and may not even be representative. Feel free to explore them at your leisure.
- Blogs
- Slashdot, Boing Boing, more...
- Social Bookmarking
- Digg, del.icio.us
- Social Networking
- Facebook, MySpace
- Media
- Flickr, YouTube