... technology and this need for ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnected computers to develop. This global network allows a person to send E-mail across the world in mere fractions of a second, and allows a common person to access a huge amount of information worldwide. This newfound global network, originally called Arconet, was developed and funded solely by and for the U.S. government ... archived and someone may intercept the data, private or not. Credit card numbers are a frequent target of hackers. Encryption is a means of encoding data so that only som...

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