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Is privacy dead in an online world?

Four experts examine the issue of information security in an online world.

KingPin2389d ago

IMO yes. privacy in an online world is dead.
1) you can always be tracked no matter what screen name you use.
2) you have no idea where your online data is stored/encrypted
3) you have no idea who can see your data even though it is encrypted. every encryption has a decryption key. those that make it can break it.
4) once its on the net, its there for everybody.

Cobra9512389d ago

1) Multiple-encryption VPN over TOR, with non-tracking search engines.
2) True, but someone else finding it and tracking it back to you can be made near impossible.
3) Not true. Sure, any encryption can be brute-forced cracked with enough power and time, but the cost would be prohibitive. If I write a good encrypting algorithm, I can assure you I'll never be able to decrypt any data encrypted with it unless I have the key, which only the data owner knows.
4) Sure, but the random-seeming collection of bytes won't mean anything to them.

Privacy online is certainly gone for any user who doesn't know how to really protect himself, or doesn't want to--which means most of them.

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