We all use the Internet, whether we like it or not. Consider that there are more than 8.97 billion mobile connections today, based on real-time intelligence data from GMSA. That’s more than the estimated population of the Earth, which is 7.710 million, according to estimates made by the UN.
So how did the Internet start? Several factors came into play. The Internet technically started in 1983. This was because the ARPANET adopted TCP / IP. ARPANET was developed under the direction of the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The TCP / IP protocol suite was designed in the 1970s by two DARPA scientists.
The latest version of TCP / IP IPv6 can provide the Internet with approximately 3,403 x 10 at 38 power IP addresses. For all practical purposes, this is close to infinity. This would allow every device, be it your smartphone, toaster oven, microwave, car, anything that runs on electricity, and everything that is built into your body, that runs on electricity, could theoretically be connected to the internet. This means, theoretically speaking, everyone on the planet and all its electrical devices could be monitored by the Internet. This means that anything that is considered smart as they are using a microprocessor, BIOS, RAM, and network, wired or wireless circuits could be connected to the Internet. Can you say that 1984 is about to happen? You read the book and they probably made you read this in high school or maybe college. The premise of this novel was very gruesome.
Let’s face it, everything we do is connected to the internet. Every time you buy something at the supermarket, the Internet is involved. All banking transactions are recorded on some lonely data server, which could be located anywhere in the world. Even when you use cash, this transaction is logged somewhere on some server located in some server farm.
When you are driving on the highway and a traffic camera records you speeding, this is also recorded somewhere on the Internet.When you enter a shopping mall, everything you do is captured by the camera, using the Internet to allow have someone control your every move. All of this is logged and saved forever or at least until the server crashes and is not backed up. Everything you say on social media is logged and saved in a database and will never be deleted. In fact, certain social media giants allow us their software, knowing full well that everything you say and record becomes their exclusive property. You know who these social media giants are. But we continue to use your software and allow it to reside on our computers, collecting our personal ideas and social comments. It’s no wonder some law enforcement agencies love these social media giants. Do you blame them?
By some estimates, there are 1,900 operational satellites in orbit around the Earth, launched by 40 countries. How many of these are spy satellites? No one really knows except the countries that released them. Think about this, you can access the internet by using satellites. Certain search engines may give you access to satellite images that will show any town, town, or city in the world, from the perspective of standing on a street. This is not in real time, but it is a long way from the advances that are taking place in computer technology and the Internet.
So we can see that the Internet is negatively affecting us as it can be and is being used to monitor everything we do. Privacy is going down the drain.
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