Thursday, October 26, 2006
A net control
The idea that the world wide web being watch over by the government and being stripped from its Freedom of speech was a little far fech, but now it seems to be the big issue that Steve Levy bring out in his article A net control. A good point was brought out in this article, the internet does grant people total freedom, though there may be some negative aspects to such freedom, such as identity theft. Idnentity theft has been an issue in this country and with the power of the internet it allows the crime of fraud to be done a whole lot easier. Though the internet introduces all sorts of negativity Levy agrees that it is a small price to pay for all the liberites that it does bring to the people. But these liberties are being threathed to be stripped from the people.
Monitor cyberspace...? It does sound unfair and a total flip of reality but it does bring some advantages. This new system would eliminate identity theft, any of that unwelcomed spam that we all seem to get so frequently, and computers programs will also be stamped this will allow people to know whether programs are uncorrupted and cleared to run the computer.
"Developments in technology, law and commerce seemed to be directed toward
actually changing the open nature of the Net. And Internet Revisited would
create opportunities for business and government to control and monitor
cyberspace."
Monitor cyberspace...? It does sound unfair and a total flip of reality but it does bring some advantages. This new system would eliminate identity theft, any of that unwelcomed spam that we all seem to get so frequently, and computers programs will also be stamped this will allow people to know whether programs are uncorrupted and cleared to run the computer.
"Intel and AMD are onboard to create special secure chips that would make
all computers sold after that point secure. No more viruses! And the
addition of digital rights management” to movies, music and even documents
created by individuals (such protections are already built into the recently
released version of Microsoft Office) would use the secure system to make
sure that no one can access or, potentially, even post anything without
permission."
No more viruses and potential risk to your computers. This sounds great; security and guarentee to a better and safer way to serf the web, but at what price?
