PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET: INTRODUCTION
Most of us view electronic mail (e-mail) as a quick, cheap, and efficient method for information exchange. Electronic mail dominates modern corporate communication and with the ease of transmitting and retrieving information through this system, problems concerning privacy have been on the rise. A survey among working professionals revealed that most employees are unaware that their employers can legally monitor their e-mail messages, and that many employees use the system for private use. It is recommended that professional etiquette be practiced to reduce the risk of disputes, incidents and lawsuits related to e-mail privacy issues.

Ever since the invention of e-mail, privacy has been a significant question. There are some ways to protect your e-mail, and your privacy online. If I explain these methods like others did, the subject will still be very mysterious.

Privacy and security are virtually non-existent on the Internet unless users take specific precautions. E-mail can be intercepted by hackers while in transit or stolen from the receiving server. Internet service providers may also have holes in their security architectures that could affect customers, although most large ISPs claim they are "security conscious." Experts say ISPs tend to pay inadequate attention to security, and one business-hosting company that actually hired hackers to investigate a break-in learned that the attacker had exploited a badly configured default setting and entrapped a Web server belonging to a Fortune 1,000 client. After my network has been hacked three times, I found out the same solution. Become your own hacker to protect yourself.

"Who better to catch a hacker than a hacker? This was the thinking of a business-hosting ISP that will remain unnamed, that called on hackers, known as "Mudge" and "Weld" of the Boston-based "10pht" hacker group, late last year (1997) to investigate a break-in. The two discovered that an anonymous attacker had exploited a poorly configured default setting and laid a trap in a Web server that belonged to a Fortune 1,000 company that was a client of this particular ISP."

InfoWorld. "Is your ISP secure?" Deborah Radcliff

You will find enough information on how to make yourself anonymous and how to read your friends’ e-mails or more in the next pages. You will understand what is secure or not while hacking others. This will not make you a bad person. It is just playing the game with its rules. Not all people that carry guns are bad people. That’s the only way to protect themselves from the others that have guns. I know you have one question in your mind. Does not this information help educate malicious hackers? The answer is no. "The information is out there. The hackers know where that information is."

"Maximum Security" is the work of an anonymous author who spent three years in prison for fraud and readily admits that his work can be used as a tool for crime. Officials at Macmillan Publishing say they were uneasy about publishing the book but chose to focus on its security aspects rather than play up the "how to hack" angle. That book was written to the network experts, and system administrators because of the terms used in the book. You will find the same idea with different method and language below.

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