Computer Forensics and Privacy: At What Price Do We Police the Internet?
Titel:
Computer Forensics and Privacy: At What Price Do We Police the Internet?
Auteur:
Poore, Ralph Spencer
Verschenen in:
Information security journal
Paginering:
Jaargang 9 (2000) nr. 5 pagina's 1-5
Jaar:
2000
Inhoud:
Like the djinn of legend, once the genie is out of the bottle, its power is unleashed for both good and evil. Our interconnectivity through the Internet enables cost- effective data transmission to almost any point on the planet. When the data facilitates lawful commerce or promotes human rights, the enchan ting magic validates the technology. When the data facilitates murder and mayhem or governmental oppression, then the baneful curse condemns the technology. A completely free society — if it is to survive — requires citizens who exercise self-restraint and who are willing to accept the consequences of failures of that self- restraint. At some threshold of failures, however, citizens demand of their government protection from each other. At some point, such protection curtails the freedom of its citizens, and the citizens find themselves in a police state. Thus, the pendulum swings between anarchy and totalitarianism, between unbridled freedom and censorship, between anonymity (i.e. no accountability) and Big Brother (i.e. no privacy). To achieve a balance of costs and benefits, we must first understand the problems we hope to solve.
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