GET SAFE ONLINE OR HOW TO KEEP SAFE ON THE DARK SIDE …
Today marks the beginning of the Get Safe Online week ( http://www.getsafeonline.org ) here in the UK. Last month was Global Cyber Security month. This celebration of the ‘evil’ Internet - is becoming a ghoulish fetish – an obsession with the dark side of the cyber world, this dangerous underworld populated by zombies and Zeus mutants. During every breathing moment this new ‘world’ we have created – the Internet / Cyberspace / the Web – morphs and grows and its tentacles reach into every nook and cranny of our lives. You would have to be a Buddhist monk in the remote mountains of Bhutan not to have been influenced by the spread of this techno organism and its cancerous viruses…. Or is this all scaremongering? How bad is it really? Well first we have to acknowledge that it is a reality – the Internet that is - and everything that goes with it – both good and bad. The Internet has unleashed Man’s creativity and his ability to harness this new force – mai