“Unless we’re willing to rethink today’s Internet,” says Nick McKeown, a Stanford engineer involved in building a new Internet, “we’re just waiting for a series of public catastrophes.”
That quote from a New York Times article published on February 14: Do We Need a New Internet? As the story points out, the Internet has "the burden of carrying all the world's communication and commerce." Are we are in danger of a digital Pearl Harbor? What do you think?
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Wow, this makes you think.
I think we should worry about how secure our networks will be in the future. Computers can be seriously infected with just a single click. The Conficker is the best example of that. The least we can do as individuals is to protect our computers as much as we can by performing virus scans and what not.
I don't understand why people would go to great lengths and create certain programs which would end up harming internet users from all over the world.
However, like I said, the least we can do is protect ourselves by using the right types of anti-virus programs and being careful what we view online. Anything could turn out to be a serious virus these days.
I sure hope that people can come up with a "new" safe internet. That would be somewhat of a mini revolution. The world would be a better place =P
Internet nowadays is insecure place for our private information although the numbers of internet users who are posting and putting their personal information is increasing. That’s made the internet little bit scary because our privacy and personal information may be invaded as it may become a target for attackers that we don’t know. This could damage the network and as what is written in the article “the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace…” The current situation of the internet made us really need to think seriously of having a new, secure and more trustworthy network. But, I think this might take years & years to reinvent secure internet...
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