2004

On November 20, 2004 the South China Morning Post published an article by Stuart Biggs called Cyberspace 'chaos' is scaring off business; Former US security adviser says the corporate world is losing billions because the Internet is unsafe. This article describes how a normal person and corporations are at risk by using the Internet because criminals, hackers, and terrorists have made it their primary place of business. Biggs states that because of spam, phishing, hacking, worms, and viruses have taken over the information superhighway, average people and companies are losing billions in productivity and in sensitive information. The term cyberspace is used interchangeably with the web/Internet in this article. An interesting point made is that in this time terrorist were using cyberspace and CMCs as a source of plot communication. Biggs states, "sharing user names and passwords for web-based e-mail sites such as Yahoo, terrorist communicated with each other by leaving messages in draft folders rather than risking sending messages from one account to another. " This is a fascinating way to us a CMC and one I had never heard about before.