It's strength and purpose is the facilitation and dissemination of information at warp speed. ... One primary defining attribute of the Internet is the sheer volume of personal information it generates every day through its mere usage by "Netizens-. The web collects information about its users at all times and without notice ; often some websites collect information from children without parental involvement. ... PROJECT STRUCTURE RESEARCH QUESTION MODE OF CITATION A uniform mode of citation has been adopted and followed consistently throughout this paper ...

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Once inside your private site, you will have access to all of the accounts that you have registered for online banking. ... a, E-mail payment Many online banking sites now feature a service that private vendors have offered for years: the ability to use e-mail to initiate payments between individuals. ... Private e-payment providers require both sides to sign up. ... To initiate an e-mail payment through your private banking site, you will need to know at a minimum the e-mail address of the recipient, and depending on the e-payment provider, you may need the bank account number into which ...

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Censoring the Internet Censoring the Internet The internet offers a huge wealth of information both good and bad, unfortunately the vary nature of the internet makes policing this new domain practically impossible. ... The user is free to browse or transfer information with others. ... This may have started out as a prank to some, but now net- porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway. ... Spanning eight pages the article tries to expose the "red light district" of the information superhighway. ... The main focus of discontent was a new study, "Marketing Pornography on...

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Packet switching is the breaking down of data into data grams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destination of the information and the forwarding of these packets from one computer to another computer until the information arrives at its final destination computer. ... IRC was started in the late 1980's by an employee of the Department of Information Processing Science, Jarkko Oikarinen. ... Using your nickname (handle) you can enter a channel (Chat room) or chat privately. ... By entering keywords in the filenames, Archie has the ability to search for matc...

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The computer, together with the "all-powerful" Internet provides us with almost everything we could ever want; material things, information, even potential life partners (online dating); thus resulting in the formation of new words such as cyber-space or online connectivity. ... However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has defined cyber-terrorism as "the premeditated, politically motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which result in violence against noncombatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents". ... The cyber-terroris...

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In fig 1.1 is an example of an Information Overload; that is when too much information is retrieved, and the user cannot handle it. ... Information filtering or Selective Dissemination of Information is a "tool- that must be used when finding information on the Internet. ... There are many information filtering "agents- that can be used to assist the user in filtering through information. ... Selective Dissemination of information: 2.1 What is Selective Dissemination of Information? ... It is Information rich VS information poor. ...

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All aspects of information security have taken on a greater emphasis as a direct result of the Internet's flexible design and the explosive increase in its usage. ... They range from acts of `net vandalism to most sophisticated, targeted acts of information theft, fraud or sabotage. ... Wire-tapping can be considered an eavesdropping attack. 2.7: Active attacks: In these attacks, just as in eavesdropping, information is being recorded. However, there can also be interception, alteration and retransmission of the data, by braking the line of communication, and passing it th...

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The Internet is defined as global networks defined by a set of open standards for communicating data and information between computers. In addition to this massive information highway there are many different tools that can be utilized on this global network. ... Consumers, before they worry about product information, are more likely to search for the most economical price. ... The Internet is best known for being an information superhighway, not a superhighway to the shopping mall. ... Internet hackers have found several ways to treat themselves to a consumer's credit card inf...

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The ability to research unlimited amounts of information exists at the touch of the keyboard. ... So why is it that recently in Dubai, the International Telecoms Union (ITU) which is a UN agency for information and communications technology, holding meetings to consider regulating it as well as cellular networks. ... This expansion of technology eventually lead to societies around the world having a medium that today provides almost instantaneous information of any kind at the touch of a key board. ... This need alone lead to the development of computers "talking " thus creating a interconn...

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Businesses use e-commerce to develop competitive advantage by providing more useful information, expanding choice, developing new services, streamlining purchasing processes, and lowering costs. The Internet also imposes price discipline as customers have access to price and product information from many sources. ... Email has proved to be highly beneficial and can reduce costs as less paper is needed or if a courier service is required to deliver the information. ... The Internet provides access to more information for both the company and the end consumer. ... The consumer can also fin...

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Because of this departure from conventional methodology, Licklider's office was renamed the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) (Haffner, 1996). ... After informal conversations with Licklider at the Second Congress on Information System Sciences in Hot Springs, Virginia, in November 1964, Roberts "concluded that the most important problem in the computer field before us at the time was computer networking; the ability to access one computer from another easily and economically to permit resource sharing." ... In pointing out the community phenomena created, in part, by ...

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