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Trigger Effects of Internet Crime
The explosion of the Internet has yielded far too many benefits to list in this writing.
Millions and millions of people now have access to information that years before
seemed unavailable. Commercial organizations, healthcare organizations, nonprofit
organizations, government agencies, and even military organizations publicly disclose
vast amounts of information via websites. In most cases, this continually increasing
access to information is considered an improvement. However, as the world progresses
in a positive direction, the bad guys are right there keeping up with and exploiting technologies,
waiting for their opportunities to pounce on unsuspecting victims. Greater
access to information and more open computer networks and systems have provided us,
as well as the bad guys with greater resources.
It is widely recognized that the Internet represents a fundamental change in how information
is made available to the public by commercial and governmental entities, and that a
balance must continually be struck between the benefits of such greater access and the
downsides. In the government context, information policy is driven by the threat to
national security, which is perceived as greater than the commercial threat to businesses.
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