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Internet,victime de son propre succès!
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Internet, victim of its own success!
Automatically translated into English thanks to WorldLingo
By,
Xavier Kreiss
for BBC Africa


Vivre without Internet seems unimaginable for the million people who make use of it the every day. But according to one of the principal world experts the wide-area network is threatened today, and could even disappear (at least in its current form), victim of the proliferation of the criminal activities and the hacking.


a keyboard of computer

twenty years ago, an American student had created and launched the first data-processing virus - a “worm” - which in the 24 hours space had reached between 5 and 10% of all the computers connected to Internet. At the time (in 1988) it was only about one about sixty thousands machines on the whole.

It was followed, since, by thousands of others “hackers”, or pirates, who in general are given for rule not to make any evil.

But these “honourable” pirates are not alone any more, it is necessary themselves some.

And the users of Internet still entirely did not adapt to face the danger which constitute the viruses, the junk email (or “spam”), the data-processing “worms”, the “phishing” and the multiple shapes of fraud on line.

Malevolent programs


Pourr Jonathan Zitrrain Internet is seriously threatened

Certains of these criminals create programs which (if the users have misfortune to download them, consciously or not) will take the control of their computers, which will become “zombies”.

Last year, it was estimated already that from 100 to 150 million machines (that is to say 25% of the total of the GCV connected to Internet) were thus infected, and “recruited” in networks allowing their “controllers” to make use of it for harmful activities.

Formerly, the programs malfaisants were like graffiti, acts of vandalism to the limited consequences.

Today, the phenomenon is connected much more with the traffic of drug.

It is the opinion of Jonathan Zittrain, teacher specialist in the governorship of Internet at the university of Oxford, in England.

It estimates that the wide-area network is fragile, and seriously threatened.

According to him, it is in 1998, some ten years ago, therefore, that the hacking and the illegal activities on Internet really took their rise.

Frauds on line

The goal of the malevolent programs is especially financial

And today, “it is the equivalent of the drug trafficking” explains Jonathan Zittrain.

“The idea is to infect machines to adapt their band-width illegally, and to sell the control of these contaminated machines with highest offerer.

Then, they can for example be directed in mass towards only one Web site to make it “plant” or one is useful oneself of these networks to send spams, or to collect personal data that these computers contain”.

These data can for example take the form of numbers of credit cards
: the frauds utllisant these data without the knowledge of their rightful owners cost 212 million books last year (more than 175 billion frank CFA), that is to say an increase of 15% compared to the previous year.

Professor Zittrain stresses that Internet is only controlled very little, that no matter who can write software, or to divide them with others, to practically do anything.

For him, this characteristic, which is at the origin of the success of the wide-area network, is also its principal weak point.

And Jonathan Zittrain is formal:
Internet (in its current form) is threatened of disappearance.

Painful solutions

the end could for example take the form of a malevolent software which would cause a generalized derailment. Or the future could be made “sterile” technologies, such as the iPhone (see low), than nobody cannot control or modify.

The iPhone of Apple: elegant but… closed

“When you have a micro-computer what is called (PC) “generic”, which can carry out any codes without the manufacturer being able there to do anything, it is a great weak point”, affirms professor Zittrain.

Indeed, of the billion people are connected to Internet, and a great number of them are not protected correctly.

Result: they leave the large open door to their fields, with their personal data.

And there, warns Jonathan Zittrain, “the solutions are likely to be quite as painful as the problem itself”.

One of these solutions could thus take the form of technologies such as the iPhone of Apple.

The expert of the university of Oxford underlines indeed that contrary to Internet, the iPhone “owner is a network”.

The apparatus is elegant, easy to use, but no user can write programs for him, or get a program written by a third, without the authorization express of Apple.

That has, certainly, the advantage of protecting the system against the malevolent software. But the control of the machine is held exclusively by a great multinational corporation.

The place left with creation is some thus very limited.

All to lock?

Today no matter who can create a software

the other possibility, informs Jonathan Zittrain, would be to decide that this experiment of Internet, which lasted thirty years, was an extraordinary adventure, but that the hour all had just disconnected, or all to make “impermeable”.

Not to allow exchanges more all azimuths.

It underlines the exponential growth of the wide-area network, had with the fact that it is relatively easy to create a platform, and to divide what one creates with others.

If one were all to lock, “that would eliminate most of what we hold today for asset: a world in which technology can be influenced, upset, even, by no matter whom ".

According to Jonathan Zittrain, best, of course, would be to find a solution which is not likely to destroy the whole of the system, or to attack the creativity and to the opening which were worth such a success to him.


Source: www.bbc.co

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