Interconnectivity is a blessing and a serious curse. The net provides us various ways to communicate with other people or other systems. Like everything else it has a downside. The reason why so many cyber criminals can get away with their obnoxious acts against humanity, is because of how the net was designed and how computers and networks function. It's almost impossible to stop misuse of services for any kind of exploitation. Whether it be the use of proxies, or hijacked servers or just bombarding mail servers, it will be with us so long we use TCP/IP. read more »


