http://comment.cio.com/soundoff/032504.html
Spyware has become a sufficiently pervasive and annoying problem that it has been mentioned several times in this blog. Because applied IT students should be using the InterNet vigorously, and exploring some of its more 'dangerous' nooks and crannies, beginners particularly are extremely vulnerable to these pests. Since too many institutions still mistakenly insist on Internet Explorer as their mandated browser, the situation is even worse. How bad it is is suggested by this article [which is accompanied by vigorous and interesting commentary] -- infection rates of 90% are posited, and credible. This is a major problem which must be faced and overcome to protect continuing health of the Net.
As this article suggests, help is on its way:
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33231.html
Of course, if we get the same 'assistance' from these folks as we got with the CAN-SPAM act....
This is not the only government initiative relating to surveillance; as this article indicates, the USA's FBI wants to make nettapping faster and easier, getting a hook into broadband:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1549618,00.asp
Since this amounts to rearchitecting the Net in the interest of government agency surveillance, it definitely is a hot topic.
On the other hand, when it is not them doing the spying, lawmakers can get knotted knickers in a great hurry to regulate who spies on what. RFID issues have been discussed a good deal in this blog, and now some legislators are moving to control it:
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62433,00.html
Since this would seem to put lawmakers at odds with big business lobbies, it will be interesting (and perhaps instructive) to see how all this turns out.
For many years after 1984 was published, the knock against the surveillance society depicted in the book was that it was neither feasible nor desirable. Technology is solving the feasibility issue -- how the desirability issue gets handled is going to be a major test of how democratic processes can continue to develop and flourish.
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