The Resonating Ring of A Whistle Blower
Nathan Sharp
COLL148
June 7, 2015
Julie Vanorny
DeVry University

The Resonating Ring of a Whistle Blower
I. Introduction A. Attention-Getter/Hook – Everywhere you go, everything you see, when you are surfing on the web you are being recorded, every click is stored in a database, and that’s only if your just using a search engine. When you are using a social networking site and you send someone a chat message, it stores your IP address of where the message was sent from, essentially telling Facebook, marketers to whom your information is sold, and the other person where you are. B. Background: The project that I have chosen is to make the viewer aware that they are vulnerable on the internet, even if they think that they are not, introduce my role model who I strive to be like one day, and explain how this all fits into the career path I have chosen. C. Edward Snowden nowadays is referred to as a “whistle-blower” because he leaked secret government documents that essentially proved that the government has been spying on its citizens for years, illegally collecting data, text messages, phone calls. But I argue that what he did made people more aware that the internet is not safe, and it kick started a movement to better hardware encryption technology, which is the field I would like to get into, or integrating seamless encryption into other existing software and technologies. D. Edward Snowden became a martyr because he shared the truth with the world that the government was spying on them, he lost his freedom because of it, I want to make encryption commonplace in his honor. E. Most of what will be talked about is the information collected by the NSA, the leaked secret documents, government created malware, and how I want to be someone who makes a difference in the world by making encryption seamless.
II. Your program: Information Technology, Cisco Certified Network Administrator A. I chose this career field after reading about Edward Snowden in a paper while I was still in high school. When I found out how much data was being collected anonymously about me and everyone else I made it my goal to beat the government by encrypting all my data. When I become a Cisco Certified Network Administrator I will have the knowledge of exactly how the internet works, how the packets travel and how to encrypt those packets. I want to take existing encryption and integrate it seamlessly into things like Windows one day, or cell phone apps, so people don’t have to worry about people seeing their sensitive information. B. I expect to complete this program within a year and about 2 months, which is what my advisor told me last time I saw her. C. A degree as an IT with a certificate in Cisco Certified Network Administration
III. Characteristics of an effective leader A. Definition of an effective leader * B. Positive leadership traits (including personal responsibility) *
IV. Your leader/role model A. Brief biographical information on the leader * 1. “he had created these accounts or used his sys admin privileges to modify the accounts to access even more highly classified documents remotely using NSAnet, the NSA’s classified intranet.”* 2. Currently Edward Snowden is essentially living in exile, on the run, from the United States government, who is upset that he called them out for doing the wrong thing. B. Your reasons for selecting this person 1. Leadership qualities and evidence of personal responsibility * 2. The relevance to my career path is that I want to go into encryption and he is a master of encryption who did the right thing by exposing internal spying within the US.
V. Your own leadership qualities and success traits A. Your personal strengths as a leader (based on assessments in course) * 1. What you learned about yourself from these assessments 2. How these strengths can help you be successful 3. Your plan for employing these strengths B. Your areas of weakness that may get in the way of your success * 1. The positive changes you need to make in order to resolve weaknesses 2. Your plan for resolving these weaknesses
VI. Conclusion A. Identify and re-state the main idea B. Wrap up your ideas C. Provide a specific action step you will take to continue your journey to success

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