Information negative sides:

Information has a vital role to play in all the sectors especially at the

sites of decision-making. The power of the information sector became the

main criterion for the comprehensive economic power in the society. It is

the feedback that helps to achieve the stability of the international system.

Information has a positive and important effect on the national security,

education, health, economy, the state's policy and on our life in general.

We see and hear about satellites for spying that know no limits or

privacies for any country. These satellites can hack on the sovereignty of

any country. Foreign mass media transmit whatever they like of false

information about other countries. The main aim here is economy. We

notice that information technology has a great effect on our life and can

control our culture and knowledge.

The danger of the information technology lies in the fact that it robs the

people their identity. This is clear in the book of Cross Roads by Dr.

Hussein Kamel Bahaa El-Deen; the Ex-Minister of Education in Chapter

Three entitled "The Retreat of the Morals and the Sovereignty of their

Material Values"

Examples to show the negative sides of information The World Wide Web:

The marvellous progress in the fields of communication and internet

usage of computer is a great leap in sharing data and information. This helps

employees, individuals, institutions and states work smoothly. This is known

as the (World Wide Web) or the internet.

The international network is called the (World Wide Web) for

information. It links many "Wans" (Wide Area Networks) in most countries

of the world. Anyone can browse the internet and can also go through the

information or even add to it. Individuals who use the internet should have

morals because they will find information that deals with the correct social

habits and religious values. It is possible also to find immoral data that

penetrate into the country.

The internet helps us transmit information in an easy and quick way ,

not only among individuals but also among institutioins and states. The

world has become a small village because we can see and know each other

inspite of the far distance. For this reason, a new type of computer users

who look for information for different reasons have appeared. They try to

reach information in all the possible means to erase knowledge or attempt to

alter it , using different means through the computer and the internet. These

people are called hackers. But how can we protect our data from such

hackers ?

The security dangers that personal computers are exposed to

when connected to the internet:

Security dangers

The internet includes many security dangers that may harm your

computer. These dangers can cause problems. These problems result in

losing data and information. These types of dangers are considered the

common security dangers.

Viruses

Viruses are transmitted to computers in many ways for example, when we

use infected CDs. Now, after the breakthrough of using the internet, the (email)

became the most wide spread cause for viruses spreading into

computers. These viruses may cause harms. The least harm is a damaging a

certain programme.

- Lack of experience in dealing with some programmes:

The wide spread usage of the internet by the non-specialists in this field,

leads to updating programmes to make them easier to deal with. It became

very easy for anybody to log into the internet and reach the information; this

makes the connector exposed to different harms.

The inaccuracy and carelessness in using the internet:

In choosing your passwords, they should not be known to others or

written on papers and they should not be easy to guess.

The technical ways followed in limiting security dangers on the systems

and computer nets, occasionally limit the use of some applications and

internet services. For example, more security may affect the use of chat or

communication through the internet. Therefore, security level is left for the

user.