Internet Privacy

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The paper states that privacy on the internet is nearly impossible. For each new security measure installed, hackers manage to find a way in. The writer explains that it is necessary to protect people's privacy, and to protect classified government information. Included in this privacy is salvaging the innocence of children who fall prey to pedophiles and sexual predators on the internet. In conclusion, the writer claims that the unresolved privacy issue hangs somewhere between the timidity of computer companies and the lack of progress in enacting tough legislation by Congress and other regulatory agencies.

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"If we consider the Internet to be an international airborne series of sending and receiving stations, electronic encyclopedias, e-mailed messages from one executive to another, IM messages from one love-struck teen-ager to his music idol, then there is little firm and set means of assuring and insuring privacy. Perhaps the greatest reason for complete privacy is to protect business from being "invaded" and ideas, even formulations and decisions stolen; and to protect government agencies, such as the Pentagon from having its military information "hacked", and as in the recent Chinese spying case in Los Alamos turned over to a foreign nation not necessarily friendly to the U.S.
"Hackers are not necessarily jolly young nerds." Computer fraud on the Internet is bringing some $100 million a year." (Jerome, p. 87) But, currently, even the most ambitious and even dangerous hackers like the notorious Kevin Mitnick, only get slaps on the wrist: A one-year prison sentence, followed by six months in a rehabilitation program."

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