Is Internet safe or not safe?
Sometimes,Internet can be safe and unsafe,it has advantages and disadvantages which i discussed in my 1st blog,please check that out.We are affected by it and we could also be a victim of its disadvantages.Most of the time it can be below the belt or mean. Examples are MEMES: sometimes it can be cute and funny
But can be mean:
Other disadvantages are cyber crimes,cyber bullying and hacking.
How can we solve these problems? Can the government help us and ensure that internet will be safe and secure?If yes, In what way?
The government is the only able body that can censor or control the internet. The government can put up an office and put some men to be in charge of viewing or reading or receiving all the details being posted, encoded, uploaded in the internet in their country.They can also be the ones who can delete them and impose penalties on those who uses the internet improperly. Just imagine if someone is using the internet improperly like posting rude remarks and comments, posting or using pictures of persons to humiliate them, with the help of an organization from the government, maybe then, these cyber crimes will be lessen at first and finally put to an end.
But there will be one disadvantage of this kind of censorship and that is invading the privacy of people. It will be like when someone posts something, it will first reach to the government than to the person whom the post/message is intended.
The picture shows that if the government will take control of the internet there will be no freedom of speech.
Is there a serious potential threat to the government and state?
In some countries like USA, some of their government agencies were said to be hacked and maybe some of their top secret information were out in the open
White house hacked:
An unnamed official told the Associated Press that the State Department’s classified systems were not affected, but the “department shut down its worldwide email late on Friday as part of a scheduled outage of some of its Internet-linked systems to make security improvement t its main unclassified computer network.The White House detected suspicious activity on its unclassified network in late October. Although the State Department found “no indication” of being compromised at that time, now a department official claims the “activity of concern” was detected around the same time as the attack on the White House’s network. It’s unclear why so much time passed after its network was infiltrated before the State Department slammed on the brakes and took the “unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system.”
USPS hacked:
The FBI notified the USPS that it suffered an intrusion in September. USPS later confirmed the breach went all the way back “to at least the beginning of January.” Chinese government hackers are suspected to be behind the cyberattack, reported The Washington Post. Names, birth dates, addresses and social security numbers of 800,000 USPS employees were stolen. Much like the State Department waited before shoring up security, the USPS was aware of the hack in Sept. but took didn’t start repairing the breach until the second weekend in November.Although USPS claimed no customer payment data was taken, “hackers swiped call center data going back to Jan. 1. That includes names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of people who contacted the Postal Service's Customer Care Center.” Nevertheless, the FBI said to report any suspected instances of identity theft to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.As you likely recall, the USPS takes a photo of every letter and package mailed in the U.S.; that’s about 160 billion pieces of mail per year. “Tens of thousands” of those images are handed over to law enforcement agencies for additional scrutiny. The USPS reported approving “nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.”
And other government agencies:Check:http://www.computerworld.com/article/2848779/list-of-hacked-government-agencies-grows-state-department-white-house-noaa-and-usps.html
We may learn that if the government will be in charge of censoring the internet, they should have at least some guidelines on what can be and cannot be.And before they should put up one government agency of censorship,they should first ask or give surveys to all groups of people from students to businessmen.
Dear Readers,Are you in favor of government censorship on internet?
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