NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE: DO WE NEED A NEW INTERNET?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html?_r=1&hp Know that your internet interactions are NOT safe. They may soon be used against you. The internet could easily be brought down, which would cripple all business, banking and social interactions. Do the best you can to be as internet/computer literate as you can become, to the greatest level you can attain, including programming and hacking if only for defensive purposes. It's really not a hard field of study to understand. You just have to PRACTICE until it becomes second nature. Its languages make more sense than regular English.