Developed by CERN in Switzerland, information sources on the Internet can be accessed via hypertext browsers thus grealty enhancing the ease with which users can navigate the information highways. Gopher sites are linked to the Web which is quickly emerging as the standard information server on the Internet. And yes, 'hacking' the Web is a hot topic for discussion on the Net News. The precursor to Gopher. This shared protocol allowed sites to exchange files across a common platform.
Many sites permit anonymous login to the public domain areas.
These viruses may lie dormant in a computer for some time and come into operation only when the computer system's internal clock indicates that the date is Friday 13th or March 6, Michaelangelo's birthday. The Audit Commission have conducted triennial surveys since 1980 attempting to assess the scale first of computer fraud and, in its latest report, of other forms of computer abuse. The Audit Commission's statistics can only reflect those instances of fraud and abuse which are reported by their victims, but do provide a counterpoint to some of the wilder speculations about the cost of computer misuse reported in the media.