Information and technology is traveling at an enormous rate and the backbones holding everything together were not designed with the necessary security implications in mind. We use to all fear the nuclear fall out. However, it's no longer the nuclear war we need to worry about, it is the economic one. Information Warfare will be a growing part of everyone's lives, whether you are a business owner or an employee. The governments and companies are scrambling to catch up, but ordinary people have not been educated about the privacy risks of today.
Some people think encryption is the big fix it all to the problem of personal privacy.
Sources say, the government's standard encryption, DES, can be broken in about 7 seconds. Some people have been said to be able to break it without a computer. The latter we would not doubt. Software programs try to learn about the users and send the information to the companies. Microsoft tried to release Win98 with code that would send out information about what was on user's hard drive.