Air Force Aims to ‘Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace’

In my searching for information for my term paper, I ran across this very interesting article where it appears Big Brother is a bit irritated and may be about to encroach upon individual privacy rights. I understand that the Air Force must be able to keep its’ network safe against cyber attacks in order to better defend the nation, but I am not sure I like the direction they are heading. I don’t like the fact that it seems that the aim of their plan, at least initially is to gain access to all computers on a network. I am not worried about the government seeing what is on my computer as I have nothing to hide, but what they may do with this information is what bothers me. Even worse, what happens if it is hacked and taken by someone not so trustworthy. I know that being on the Net takes away some of my anonymity but I don’t need the government using the security excuse to get into my computer and what not.

One thing I was fascinated about when it came to digital collections and the article was the fact that the Air Force is aiming to try to change the rules of the internet to make things more secure. This could help those presiding over digital collections by enhancing security and preventing individuals from doing things to hurt the integrity of the collection. I am curious to see where the Air Force efforts go and what it is going to do to internet security as well as to the privacy of everyone.