As the Internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human endeavor, individuals or groups can use the anonymity afforded by cyberspace to threaten citizens, specific groups (i.e. members of an ethnic group or belief), communities and entire countries, without the inherent threat of capture, injury, or death to the attacker that being physically present would bring.
As the Internet continues to expand, and computer systems continue to be assigned more responsibility while becoming more and more complex and interdependent, sabotage or terrorism via cyberspace may become a more serious threat.
2007-08-21 22:08:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
As our lives become more and more dependent on the internet, we become more and more vulnerable to the misuse of the internet by unscrupulous people who wish to adapt the net to serve their OWN purposes. One computer, spamming the white house e-mail system doesn't affect it much at all. A hundred doing so, will slow it down a little bit, a thousand will bring it to a crawl, a million will lock it right up to the point that it has to be shut down and re-started. The SAME can be said of Yahoo's servers, a few hundred won't affect it very much, but a million users can bring yahoo to it's knees and shut it down entirely, in seconds. Cyber terrorism and all it's forms can wreak total havoc on ANY system, no matter how big or powerful it is and there need to be safeguards in the system to prevent just that. So far I have seen very little in the way of those types of safeguards.
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Raji the Green Witch
2007-08-22 03:12:50 · answer #1 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i guess it comes down to the use... people are still acountable for what they do on the internet.. eva seen to catch a predator? just because of the intent to do things its concidered a lude act and prosucutable under the law... same with a phone call or any other means...
2007-08-22 05:15:01 · answer #2 · answered by mcheshster27 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The authorities could have the messages/articles removed. And as somebody else said, almost everyone can be traced now!
2007-08-22 06:33:45 · answer #3 · answered by Blossom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything on the internet can be traced, just may take some time, but they would be caught.
2007-08-22 05:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by Jeff E 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the internet is free -govt wants to control it and is using fear to regulate freedom- ronpaul2008.com
2007-08-22 05:15:46 · answer #5 · answered by rooster 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋