Week 14 - HON 1515

This past week in Dissecting the Internet our class only met for one day thanks to Thanksgiving Break.  While I was most definitely anxious to head home and dreaming about delicious turkey and sweet potatoes when we met for class last Tuesday (this class was my final one of the day), I still managed to focus my attention on our guest speaker.  

Colonel Michael Barry visited our class to share with us an insider's view on the perspectives of Cyberspace by the different departments of government, especially the Department of Defense.  I was very captivated by the fact that these views came from someone who had a closer connection to the government than I could even imagine.  I had never thought about Cyberspace being an actual area that needed defending before, or why the new term "Cyberspace" was created for something that we already had a name for: the Internet.  

Ultimately, I was very intrigued by the presentation and thankful that I got to hear from a man with an inside connection to the Department of Defense.  I found Colonel Barry to be an intelligent and friendly man that I felt honored to have met.