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    Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is one of the largest universities in Tennessee; however, they do not offer enough housing to provide for all of their students. As a result, students are expected to find their own housing off-campus. Hence, students must live in off-campus apartment complexes that are expensive, too far away, and difficult for young students to rent. While there are some benefits to off-campus housing, students face many problems in securing these types of housing situations

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    collected from the research demonstrated that information gathered about students from service providers were used to market products, sold to third party companies, or stored for future use. The information collected may include student’s name, social security number (SSN), IP addresses, and interest(s). Even if the student’s

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    Social engineering is a method of hacking in which attackers utilize personal or not-so-personal information to impersonate the rightful owner of an account. They call up the company in question and engineer a ‘reset’ of the account permissions that allow them to take over. The idea is to trick a company's employee into revealing passwords or critical information that may be used to compromise security. Phishing is a criminal activity using different variations of social engineering techniques.

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    practice of using the phone in public and ignoring other individuals is now known as “phubbing,” or phone snubbing (Beck.) Phubbing is becoming more and more acceptable because it is becoming so common to see. With the increase in socializing through social media, there has also been an increase in cyberbullying, and cyberbullying, like regular bullying, leads

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    crime. Throughout history, unscrupulous individuals have pretended to be people they are not, often with the goal of political, social, or financial gain. With the right appearance and demeanor, people have falsely presented themselves as kings and bishops. Today, in our information age, identity theft is a far more prevalent problem. With access to names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information, thieves are able to steal identities, leaving the victims struggling to clear their good names

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    victim’s name. The victim whose identity has been stolen may suffer consequences such as being held responsible for the offender's actions. Identity theft occurs when someone uses someone else’s identifying information (such as their name, credit card number, passport, etc.) without their permission. Identity crime is one of the most common crimes committed in Australia. Surveys suggest that approximately 4-5% of Australians experience financial loss due to Identity crime per year. Identity Crime’s annual

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    exposed to the public for anyone’s eyes to see. There are people who post their entire lives on Snapchat, Instagram, and many other social media outlets. What are the consequences that portray in the condition that one displays too much information on social media, which can potentially be horrific to oneself? What occurs conceding that one has personal information on social media such as scammers, stalker, and thieves have easy access to that information which they will use against that individual? In

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    Identity Thief Methods

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    Unfortunately, the thief may also be able to access other personal accounts if a date of birth or social security number is found in the trash. Sadly, the burglar could also complete a change of address on your behalf. All mail would be sent to the selected address jeopardizing additional personal information being received. This could be a huge undoing during

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    Identity Theft Research

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    malware, and keystroke logging. Phishing is when scammers create emails, pop-ups ads, and websites that can appear to be from legitimate agencies or businesses. This lures people into providing personal and financial information such as social security numbers. Malware is designed to access an operating system and gather information without the consent of the user. It can gain access to an operating system through email attachments or links that lead into something infected. This can access personal

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    The system we have for dealing with illegal immigrants, in the state of california, arizona, and texas varies in so many ways. California inforced their border patrol therefore leaving many immigrants trying to cross over with the only option of crossing through Arizona and Texas. California has minutemen patrolling therefore, California has become a difficult place for the illegal immigrants to try and cross. In Arizona, there isn’t a strict border patrol as there is in California, they however

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