Information Studies/ Technology

Information Studies / Technology

2006

Formulating unique conception of the Web in Weaving the Web Berners-Lee emphasized that the intention was to create a system with one fundamental property : it had to be completely decentralized ' In the vision of Berners-Lee : That would be the only way a new person somewhere could start to use it [the Web] without asking for access from anyone else (Berners-Lee , 18 . In the initial years of the Web 's functioning , Berner-Lee 's ideal of a highly decentralized universal system has been shared by tens of millions of

people around the world who have appreciated and marveled at an invention that makes it unexpectedly easy for anyone with a computer to connect with anyone else with a computer , anywhere in the world , and to store and send information almost at will . But the Internet and the Web have also moved to the center of attention for governments , business leaders , lawyers and judges , police forces and military establishments , and anyone else dependent on the rule of law and authority structures in modern society This is a result of the ability and tendency of Internet users to simply skirt or leap over many of the rules and institutions designed to maintain in the pre- Internet world . Previously designed rules and legal structures enacted for slower-paced , relatively public tangible transactions in a world rimmed everywhere with bs (local provincial , national ) suddenly were challenged as never before when the Internet made it physically conceivable to carry out transactions of almost any kind in a manner simultaneously immediate , anonymous inexpensive , and seemingly bless . In contemporary context , the process of certain democratization , overcriminalization and simply lazier-affair went beyond predictable limits - internet identity theft credit card fraud , hacking , terrorist activity , pedophile activity , etc makes evident that the need for adequate regulation of online environment . However , although this need seems to be logical , many questions on the feasibility of accomplishment of this task seem to be unanswered . Contemporary safety measures like encryption or public boards aimed to protect individual privacy provide practical tool for people with criminal intent to exchange information with decreased risk to their personal identification . This aims to concentrate on some aspects of controlling of information /content transfers on Internet particularly censorship , privacy and its connection with encryption

From the very beginning , it is necessary to recognise that the Internet does often route around censorship . If someone closes one site down and that site is recreated (because it is easy to copy and send the s elsewhere , particularly elsewhere in the world with different legal jurisdiction , then it is hard to prevent those accessing the Internet from seeing the information on that site . When Italian magistrates closed down the hacker-oriented site Netstrike , it was soon recreated elsewhere beyond the reach of Italian law . Moreover , a package of s was created allowing anyone able to host a website to recreate the Netstrike site . The anti-McDonald 's website , McSpotlight , was initially located on computers in the Netherlands , despite many British workers being...