Cobalt I mostly agree with you except for this statement "There will ALWAYS be people wanting to piss someone off on the internet, trolls, pranksters and the like. It is impossible to completely stop them, it is easy for those people to fake their IPs and addresses and become almost untrackable. You can't completely eradicate it from anywhere, it's pointless trying."

 

So you're telling me that the Internet will never change? in 200 years it will be the same?? No, it will continue to change and security will be a prime concern during that evolution.

 

It will never change in the sense that there will always be trolls and stuff.

The second sentence, I forgot a currently. It is currently possible to run around on pages through the mere use of a simple program, undetected, yes.

 

Of course the internet will change. In 200 years we probably won't even have anything like the internet of today.

 

This may seem very pessimistic but social networking is a business at its core. You use the network for free, but in their terms and conditions in return for using their network, they will use your info to hand over to their sponsors, so the sponsors can hopefully make their ads better and sell their product. In return the sponsors give money to the developers of the network.

If people start to complain that others are abusing the network, they have to keep their consumers happy, see?

There may be other aims of course like technology/platform development but they do have to earn a revenue to do so. :wink:

 

Police are currently pretty troubled by cyber crimes I'm sure because this is new to them. They don't really have the tools to track these people down. I'm sure they will soon enough, but not yet.

 

These two dilemmas make progress on the issue slow... there is also the fact that people use programs meant to secure privacy to make themselves have a completely invisible e-footprint... because the software is so good, they cannot be caught...

ok, hmm.

I remember some people on xat who used to say that I'm chink and I'm not even chinese. so wtf I don't even.

I remember that girl Niva who was stupid enough for me to find out that it was she who hacked my xat account (using her user ID) and would type 'I suck dicks for 2 dollaz'.

Eventually they had grown tired of it (probably not...but they would just come up with that same old shit, that's why nobody cared anymore) because the thing is that I just let it pass; if you fight back from it the more it gets worse. It wasn't that scary, at least in this case, but it might be for those who don't know what to do or how to deal with these kind of situation.