The internet’s expansion since its first communication between two computers back in 1969 has created many new opportunities for people across the globe. Modern day life relies on the usage of the internet, where it improves the lives of people by making it easier to communicate, speed up their work, and share with others. However, with great things comes great consequences. Although the internet helps expand people’s lives and experiences, how are they to protect such precious treasures? Back in 1989 Robert Morris created one of the first computer worms to spread; which in turn caused much of the internet to shut down. This first cyber security attack, along with many others, paved the way for cybersecurity defense today as we know it. Cybersecurity
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While cyber security does take part in Internet safety, a more important factor is maintaining censorship. Due to a lack of censoring, illegal trafficking has found a new platform in the cyber world. The Internet gives access to various forms of medias and sites, yet some of these are used in a negative impactful manner. Illegal traffickers take advantage of the opportunities the cyber world offers in order to profit for themselves.
To begin with, various drug traffickers use social medias as a platform to advertise their selling of drugs through anonymity since censoring on medias is often lax. Take for example Silk Road which, “thrived on its anonymity” (Dragani, Rachelle). This group managed to operate for two and a half years gaining about one point two U.S. Dollars in sales and around eighty million dollars in commissions as stated by Rachelle Dragani from Ecommerce Times. Those who used Silk Road were able to “reportedly buy and sell illegal drugs including heroin, LSD, prescription pills, ecstasy and cocaine” (Dragani, Rachelle). By buying illegal drugs without the proper dosage online, overdoses could increase and cause more reckless addictive behavior. As a result of online drug trafficking, the drugs can be purchased from one place, shipped from a different continent, and then delivered to the located pick
While cyber security does take part in Internet safety, a more important factor is maintaining censorship. Due to a lack of censoring, illegal trafficking has found a new platform in the cyber world. The Internet gives access to various forms of medias and sites, yet some of these are used in a negative impactful manner. Illegal traffickers take advantage of the opportunities the cyber world offers in order to profit for themselves.
To begin with, various drug traffickers use social medias as a platform to advertise their selling of drugs through anonymity since censoring on medias is often lax. Take for example Silk Road which, “thrived on its anonymity” (Dragani, Rachelle). This group managed to operate for two and a half years gaining about one point two U.S. Dollars in sales and around eighty million dollars in commissions as stated by Rachelle Dragani from Ecommerce Times. Those who used Silk Road were able to “reportedly buy and sell illegal drugs including heroin, LSD, prescription pills, ecstasy and cocaine” (Dragani, Rachelle). By buying illegal drugs without the proper dosage online, overdoses could increase and cause more reckless addictive behavior. As a result of online drug trafficking, the drugs can be purchased from one place, shipped from a different continent, and then delivered to the located pick