Some users from these communities are of the opinion that they have nothing which needs to be protected, or that computer intruders will not be interested in them or their data. Sadly, this is not the case.
Computer intrusions are on the rise, both in number and in severity.
A complete analysis of the current threats to users and sites would be rather large and probably not of interest to most users. Over the past few years, the Internet security environment has changed considerably, and for the worse. The severity of these incidents ranges widely, from unauthorized access to user or organization data including reading private electronic mail, to modification or wholesale destruction of on-line data, including public, corporate and governmental web sites and data archives. The Commission concluded that the nation's infrastructure is quite vulnerable, and suggested a new cabinet-level organization to deal with this untenable situation. Users should be allowed to control their own data.