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There is a guy called Sujit Ghosh from Kolkata,

who holds a unique world record. Last year, he

created more than 5,500 email accounts on

Rediffmail. What he had done is something bizarre

but the point, at the moment, is the diminishing

line between reality and vir tuality. The ubiquitous

internet has embraced a substantial part of our life.

If you want to nd a thing be informed,

read about, research you can nd it on this

incredibly diverse web. Our life has evolved with

the internet, which has transformed from a global

data communications system to a daily commodity.

The seamless blend of a physical world and the

electronic milieu reinterprets our personal lives,

professions and relation with the society as a whole.

In this passage, we have offered a huge part of

ourselves to become a subset of the larger virtual

world; whilst we have occupied a private territory

that is dened by one and zero. Our space is again

specied by the several accounts we have for emails,

social networking, le hosting and online storage

space that we have on the labyrinth. In days to

come, the amount of megabytes you have online

could be one of the vital statistics you mention in

your CV.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft said, The

internet is becoming the town square for the global

village of tomorrow.

Gmail says Im currently using 794MB, which

is 10% of my 7,438MB and in Google Docs, I

have occupied 115MB 11% of the space I have

been alloted. However, there is a serious issue in

the world of information technology, in terms of

fraud, identity theft and access to unauthorised

information. Or in exceptional case, the top

management of corporations could easily rebuke

their employees. Once our management gave me a

stern warning on what I wrote in my blog.

Google, Lycos, Bing, Webcrawler and their

ilk have provided an effortless way to collate

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The internet is an ideal place to build a new world, whilst offering us a window

of opportunities to redene the essence of our lives. By Kapil Arambam

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information from innumerable and varying sources.

It has led to the advent of several phraseologies,

such as phishing, email spoong, information security,

data protection directive, enterprise information

security architecture, data governance et tal.

According to Wikipedia: Unencrypted emails

can be read by the administrators of the email

server, if the connection is not encrypted (no https),

and also the internet service provider and other

parties snifng the trafc of that connection are

able to know the contents. Furthermore, the same

applies to any kind of trafc generated on the

internet (web-browsing, instant messaging and

others).

It adds: In order not to give away too much

personal information, emails can be encrypted

and browsing of webpages as well as other online

activities can be done traceless via anonymisers,

or, in cases those are not trusted, by open-source

distributed anonymisers, so called mix nets.

Renowned open-source mix nets include I2P - The

Anonymous Networkand tor.

Life goes on even if you do not logged in to

Facebook for a week. However, there have been

many undesirable cases, which had arose out of fake

IDs and mail accounts that have been hacked. One

of my juniors cried a whole night when a miscreant

had unwarranted access to her Orkut prole and

had uploaded obscene pictures on her album.

How much serious is this online obstacle? It is

not much critical wrt moderate and sensible use of

the wonder technology. Despite click fraud, forex

scam, romance scam, pharming, wire fraud and other

such digital abuses, the internet has been ourishing,

making our life au courant and easier.

Far from the madding crowd, we have found

the ideal place to build a new world. Despite

the unwanted drawbacks, there are umpteen

opportunities to redene the essence of our live

just at a click of a mouse.

A journey of a thousand sitesbegins with a single click.

Anonymous

The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.