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Unfortunately security on the Internet is in a sorry state indeed. Many businesses and public authorities jump onto the Internet with little idea of what it might entail. They have often never even heard of firewalls!
The boys at Netscape have developed an Internet server that includes encryption. When two of these Netscape Internet Servers communicate it is darn near impossible for anybody lacking several Cray super computers to crack the system. The hitch is (of course) money. You gotta buy the darn thing from Netscape. Wonder why they donīt give them away for free?
While we are waiting for everybody to buy the Netscape Internet servers and make Netscapeīs 26 year old owner even richer we ought to take the following into consideration:
Now a cracker is something else again. He/she intends to destroy, wants to damage. Crackers are evil. Hackers hate them.
A cracker enjoys destroying a system.
If you visit Internet you must have an anti-virus program active in the background. If you are responsible for a computer that is always on-line to Internet then you had better invest in a darn good anti-virus program (Norton Anti-Virus is one of the very best).
It doesnīt matter which one you have, but you had better get one!