Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Criteria D

The biggest problem with the internet is shopping is basically, the internet. The internet isn’t secure enough for the public to use as a normally. It is as dangerous as withdrawing money from an ATM machine in the middle of the night, where your money could get robbed and the same thing could happen to credit cards, which could be hacked easily. So, obviously, the best solution is to make it more secure. But how? As internet security is mostly based on encryptions when data is being sent, the encryptions could be hacked no matter how complex they are, but there is a type of encryption which uses unbreakable codes which have proven to be very secure. However, these codes are rarely used as they are inconvenient and expensive, but that’s how everything starts, very expensive but its price goes down till it reaches “public affordability”. If these codes would be used by companies, the internet would be very secure that nearly all people with internet and credit cards would use it to shop online. Another solution to the problem for these online companies to open shops around the world (such as Amazon), where people would be able to go to these shops and order whatever items they need personally and pay by cash to the salesperson instead of using a credit card over the internet. A second advantage with that is that the company itself would communicate more safely as the orders sent to the main company from the shops is just simple, unrestricted words so that if it was hacked, the hacker would receive names of products instead of credit card information. Basically, the advantages would be: people paying by cash instead of credit card, faulty products could be returned to the shop instead of going through a lot of trouble sending it back to the company and lastly, it is hack proof.

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