The thing that scares me the most about the way the Internet is today is not being anonymous, just losing that sense of being able to surf without anyone knowing who you are. Now I know that this also presents security problems for all web users, i.e. the scare ware that has been floating around the Internet and causing people untold problems, and also the Conficker worm that surfaced on April fools day. These “hackers” are some of the best programmers that exist in the world, although some are not “programmers” per say, but they do have enough knowledge to cause problems for a lot of people. The only thing that makes me feel any better about these web pirates is the fact that some of the security experts that are hired by anti-virus companies are the also some of the best on this side of the law, and try and fight these problems the best they can.
The other side of this problem is the fact that the government can track the criminals, but they can also track the people who are not doing anything, just people who they feel are worth watching for no other reason than they don’t like them. Now don’t take that for some radical senseless rambling, I am just putting out possibilities that could happen.
What it all comes down to is whether people want to be more secure or do they want more freedom. It always has to balance out, and sometimes it goes to far to one side of the scale than the other, and we get the problems we have now with the Internet, and other things in life. Ask yourself that question, do you want to have more security or do you want to have more freedom?
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