The Internet is not private in my opinion. There are malware
(Malicious software) all over many websites and you will not know if it gets
in. In the article “Why Spyware Poses Multiple Threats to Security,” by Thompson,
R., it states: “Spyware can “Phone home”
information about an individual, their computer, and their surfing habits to a
third party to use to spam a computer user or push pop-up ads to their screen;”
Someone’s computer cam get compromised just through one piece of Spyware and
that is no good. Thankfully there are anti-malware and other programs out there
to combat these threats.
Also, the FBI and internet service
providers can monitor anyone’s usage of the internet. In the article “U.S., British intelligence
mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program”, it
states: “Equally unusual is the way the NSA extracts what it wants,
according to the document: “Collection directly from the servers of these U.S.
Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype,
YouTube, Apple.”” That scares me because the NSA can take any information it
wants from almost any website that has multimedia on it such as Facebook and
Skype. All these things make me feel that anything that I type can be seen by
anyone.
The internet and all our personal data are not as private as we think, because there is always a way to find something out.
ReplyDeleteyeah I agree with you. Even the government monitors everyone's usage over the internet so there is no such thing as privacy.
ReplyDeleteThe NSA only has access to the information that is posted. If you don't want them to have it, don't post it. Privacy is never given, it is surrendered.
ReplyDeleteThat is soo true, sometimes I even think about if the FBI or some other agency is spying on me at that instant.
ReplyDeleteI think the government's purpose of monitoring the usage over the internet was policing. That is how suspicious internet activity can get at times.
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