Explain crowd sourcing. Give at least three examples of crowd sourcing projects. Explain at least three benefits of crowd sourcing.

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Crowd sourcing is solving a problem by combing the contributions of a large, unconstrained volunteer population. Examples include FoldIt, a game that helps understand protein structures; NASA’s martian mapping program; and Wikipedia. Crowd sourcing is beneficial because it massively parallelizes large workloads, captures a wide variety of skill sets, and is self-correcting as volunteers contribute and peer-review others’ contributions.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Why is it difficult to detect a distributed denial-of-service attack on a server?

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