| "Internet User Beware" should be a warning label that | | | | we have nation-states who are hiring hackers to |
| comes on each new computer sold. There are many | | | | potentially exploit large IT networks, Internet backbone |
| problems, challenges and horror stories on the Internet | | | | infrastructures and bring entire countries to their knees. |
| with Fraud, Identity Theft and even Child Predators. | | | | Worried yet? Well perhaps you should be, as your |
| Indeed the issues of phishing, spyware, malware, | | | | Internet privacy is at stake, not only from the bad guys, |
| adware, identity theft and outright fraud have actually | | | | but from the good guys also as your privacy rights |
| surpassed the annual amount of dollars of even the | | | | may not be so private as the good guys find ways to |
| illegal drug trade in the US. These problems are not | | | | catch the crooks, hackers, spies and attackers. |
| going away, they are growing. | | | | Of course with all this said we want the Internet to |
| It is alarming to think that the Internet has brought to | | | | remain TAX Free and as regulation free as possible, |
| the world the most efficient communication system in | | | | because excessive regulation will ruin this |
| human history and yet it is so easily exploited by | | | | communication system and drown it with the blog of |
| criminals, hackers and cyber crooks. It is unfortunate | | | | bureaucracy nearly as fast as the criminals. There in |
| that something so great is so greatly abused. If we | | | | lies the rub of Internet Fraud and Freedom in the |
| consider the amount of crime on the Internet along | | | | Balance. |
| with the inconveniences caused by SPAM, Splogging, | | | | This is a serious issue to all those using forums, Blogs, |
| SPIT, which costs 100s of billions annually in lost | | | | sending email, owning a website, buying thru the |
| productivity, you can begin to see the pending crisis. | | | | Internet, selling on ebay or doing online banking. These |
| Then we are warned of the threats of cyber attack | | | | issues are especially serious for those running IT |
| 911 style on our financial and banking systems and you | | | | systems at work, for the government or in the military. |
| might understand why governments, industry and | | | | I certainly hope you will enjoyed this article, as we take |
| military are preparing for that potential eventuality. | | | | a look at the runway ahead. Perhaps this article is of |
| Today we have good hackers and bad hackers and | | | | interest to propel thought in 2007? |