"Privacy. There seems to be no legal issue today that cuts so wide a swath through conflicts

confronting American society. From AIDS tests to wiretaps, polygraph tests to computerized

data bases, the common denominator has been whether the right to privacy outweighs other

Robert Ellis Smith, the Privacy Journal

Computers have been a very instrumental technology that has greatly advanced the

ways in which we now do things such as; business, daily activities, shopping,

scheduling appointments, and many other things. And with more and more people using

the Internet, more and more information being passed over the Internet, more problems

arise. The Internet has been an advance in technology that has greatly increased the

capacities of a computer. These new capacities have been the cause of some serious

problems though. One very important trouble is the lack of privacy on the Internet.

People pass much important information over the Internet and they expect it to be safe

from others. Information passed over the Internet can in fact be intercepted and read by

Privacy has been defined as "the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to

Power Works that people are divided in two distinct groups; the "haves" and the "have

dropped in 1996. In spite of all this, PGP was a big success with businesses and

encryption scheme used by businesses was weak enough that the National Security

cryptography is very efficient in securing peoples privacy. Hacking an encrypted

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