From the Guardian, there are two news named Met police investigating computer hacking arrest 52-year-old man and Twitter apologises over porn on new Vine app.
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The contents of these two news are totally different, but both of them made me think about the security of the Internet.
As we know, there are so many different types of crime can be done throughout the Internet. Because of this situation, some people believe that the Internet should be controlled by government or other institutions.
However, there are also some problems.
How to limit the power of these institutions which control the Internet?
Do they will use this power to monitor our information such as the website we looking at, the comments we writing under some news and the private communication among our friends?
Here is a dilemma. We can not ignore the risks of the Internet. At the same time, we are afraid about the totally controlling to the Internet.
What is the future of this problem? How do you think about that?
We are at the mercy of whoever it is who has control of the internet. We cannot opt out of being a set of data somewhere in the "cloud". Everything we do is tracked, stored, monitored. Facebook is patently obvious and you can read many articles about companies monitoring their employees life surreptitiously in this way. Similarly, when you buy a plane ticket you are actually surrendering a huge amount of details about yourself: not just name, passport number...but obscure things like what kind of places are you interested in (for me, as my last 5 trips were to Asia, this is an obvious sign), how much time you can afford to take off for a holiday..Banking data reveals a lot about your movements, preferences,habits, locations....It's mind-blowing if you piece it all together then you get a very rich intricate "picture" of who we are.
ReplyDeleteWho has access to this? we don't know? what is it all used for? we don't know. I find it pretty scary. I don't even see if we have any choices about these things.