Let Us Find The Way Out.

written by Aizat.

Earlier this morning I heard a devastating news from my friend when she claimed that her laptop needed to reformatted as it completely stopped functioning properly. It saddens me that almost all of her previous saved data lost just like in a blink of eyes. Fortunately, she managed to save some of her works into an external hard drive before that unfortunate event occurs to her. What would you feel then if that kind of incident happens to you without any necessary given warnings? I personally will cry if I forgot to save my foremost important data to somewhere else. The reason I'm telling you this not because I want you to always make a full data backup of your own laptop although it is recommended, but instead the idea behind that which is how somewhat viruses or any foreigner entity can easily penetrate through such system if not because of the leaking of one's personal information. This is what I believe happening to that friend of mine even though she may not buy it. My next question would be what should be done to conserve one's privacy as we cannot simply stop the expanding growth of the technological innovations? The answer to that question is not an easy one. You possibly will find many as up to hundreds of solutions, still that won't be sufficient enough to accommodate this situation or problem. One example, every time we are logging on to the internet using the laptop or other devices, we are using our own Internet Protocol (IP) address to do such task. This IP address which is in the form of code numbers serves as our main representative subject if we are going to surf whichever websites and subscribe to any program or application within the websites itself. If you think such action is safe, you are completely wrong about that. A person who is skillful in computer handling and normally called a hacker be capable of stealing much personal information just from your IP address adding with nowadays technologies such as Web tracking and data mining. From there, they can send viruses to your laptop to further stealing your personal information or just to corrupt the system. Though not all hackers are bad, but we cannot rely on the good ones to protect us from these illegitimate actions. The fact is, we as the internet user will keep using it although we know the bad side of it. The Internet brings us lots of advantages far greater than the capabilities of normal human being, so to keep using it, we need to find a way out to surpass those internet drawbacks and hence, keep our privacy in a good shape.