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To function in today's world we all must have some sort of a connection to the internet. As with the real world we also must learn some level of skills in order to function at some level on the internet. The level of ability that each of us has varies greatly and seems to really reflect a new sort of street smarts within the world of the internet. As many of us know, the internet is not the safe haven that it was once thought to be. It is also not simply a means of gathering information and trading goods very easily. The internet is a direct representation of the world around us. The difference here is that we can access any culture and any part of the world with relative ease and never move more than a few inches at any one time. The advantages of this system are huge and as students we see this in our ability to network and research at the same time while we never once set foot in to the library or the lab. The digital world is quite amazing for this fact alone. In the same instance though, the internet is not simply for the benefit of everyone. Some users of the system are there simply to take advantage of others as playing the role of criminal in cyberspace.

Each and every day when we use the internet, we all function within a world that we cannot necessarily understand all at once. Most of us function at the base level and can only understand what is on the screen in bold print. We all unknowingly pass over IIS security flaws and Apache security flaws, which are the most used internet search engines. These web application vulnerabilities are what many of us don't ever think about until it is too late. We have all heard of the problem of identity theft and understand the danger, but we don't understand where it lies exactly. Within spaces thought to be safe, we often find the most sought after breeches in security and the most instances of information loss. All of us need to become as savvy at our view of the internet as we would when we enter a large city with cash in our pockets.