Scary Cyberspace
Japan.internet.com reported on a survey conducted by Cross Marketing into Internet scariness. According to What Japan Thinks, over three-quarters of Japanese (77%) find Internet either “scary to some degree” (69%) or “very scary” (8%).
The main reasons for finding Internet scary include Viruses, hacking, and other attacks (81%) and Leaking of personal data (81%) followed by Libel (51%) and Internet addiction (19%). The Internet scariness situation seem to be worsening, since 66% find it as scary as ever and 20% even scarier than last year.
While terror related to leaking of personal data and especially libel seem a bit anal, worry about viruses is pretty commonplace. But as they say: “With decent virus software and just a little common sense, viruses can be almost completely avoided, although running things like Explorer and Outlook does make life a little more interesting on line…”
In fact, just using Firefox, Gmail, and OpenOffice, along with one of the many free virus programs, would make Internet a lot less scary place?
Or just switch to Linux or OS X… .
December 11th, 2007 at 5:31 amOSX isn’t virus free, there just arent that many for it yet. the firewall for OSX is not very advanced either, but then again it doesnt really have to be yet. however it is just a matter of time. as for linux, some of the html code and kernel creation is esoteric to the general public, esp. the older demographic. red hat pisses me off, ubuntu is decent and slackware is probably the best for ease of use. interesting story on linux is that they are taking over the low end pc market.
by the way neooffice kicks openoffice’s ass.
the internet is scary???? What a bunch of pussies.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:30 amoh yeah…and f*ck you frank
December 11th, 2007 at 9:37 amHa ha! Well–don’t think TOO many of us are going to defect to Apple anytime soon, but I think we can all agree that Internet Explorer and Outlook Express aren’t a very good idea?
December 11th, 2007 at 9:45 amOSX isn’t virus free, there just aren’t that many for it yet.
That’s why I keep trying to get people to bypass OS X just switch to Linux… “OS X? Nothing to see here. You’ll probably do better down that Linux way. Move along, move along.”
I thought the reason why Linux was so popular for the lower-end PCs (aside from the fact it runs well on older or less robust systems) is that if you can’t afford a decent-priced PC, you probably can’t afford Windows Vista and all the other Microsoft Office Suite applications that have huge portions of the application market for those types.
Needless to say, if I was going to get a 2nd box, I’d try Linux out in a heartbeat. It looks… neato?
December 11th, 2007 at 10:15 amI wouldn’t use GMail. Google has too much of an obsession with collecting information.
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December 11th, 2007 at 12:54 pmoh come now riki, someone keeping track of all your correspondence, your movies, your pictures, your shopping preferences, your internet searching preferences, the links you click on, your blog posts, your contacts, etc.
what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076
December 11th, 2007 at 1:21 pmYou mean like the Google DNA Project, Google Earth, Google Analytics to track your online business. The Just need Google Medical Records and Google Bank which I guess is already coming with there Paypal Killer “checkout”.
December 12th, 2007 at 7:10 pm