It makes me quite nervous to realize that most of our personal, financial and social information is stored in some database somewhere. What makes me more nervous is that there are people that can hack into these databases and access all of your personal information from the safety of their own home. You can google pretty much anybody's name these days and find out where they live and information about them. The convenience of the Internet definitely comes with some vulnerability issues with the storage and access of personal information.
Every time somebody finds a way to hack into someone's information, there is a team of people who are in control of the security of this information that add a provision to their system to avoid that same hack. This just gives hackers another challenge to overcome and often allows room for another hack to be successful. Since the internet is just code written by people, I feel that there is always away to rewrite the code. I mean let's face it, has internet piracy gone away? No. How long has it been a problem? A very long time. So will it ever end? Or will criminals just keep getting smarter and smarter?
One method to eliminate the stealing of personal information over the internet is to hire the people that stole it in the first place. The government is hiring hackers to work for them to help expose flaws in their systems and help to stop people from being able to access information. Read all about it in this article:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/21/cybersecurity-students-hackers-technology-security-cybersecurity.html
This scares me even more. Hacking has become such a big problem that the only way we can stop it is to ask the hackers for their help? Come on now. If I were you, I would stick to shopping in stores and keeping your information as private as humanly possible before you're the one getting hacked.
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I feel the same exact way because without our identity and privacy we all have othing as American citizens
ReplyDeleteI am too! It's like NOTHING is private anymore. For any reason, a few thing's should not be able to be found out by everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe situation is very serious in my country, and it seems that people have been accustomed to this situation. Maybe because the attitudes of people are always neutral, so piracy can be serious.
ReplyDeleteI think it's really scary too! I wish it were as easy as not shopping online anymore, but that wouldn't solve the problem (and it's not fair that hackers would be shutting down such a great advancement in retail.) Everything from e-mail to bank statements can be hacked. There is no way to eliminate uses of e-mail, so I think it is good that we are hiring those that know the most about hacking to make the internet more secure.
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