The Merriam-Webster Collegiate, and the college dictionaries of New World, American Heritage and Random House. I've used a Merriam-Webster Collegiate since my high school days and think it's the best of the four, but the other three are also excellent volumes. To get a good dictionary your best bet is one of the four cataloged above, and make sure it has a recent copyright. He is the consumer and investigative reporter for the Adelphia Cable Update. Just as security and loss prevention take a low priority offline, so it is online.
Security takes time and money, and slows down the missiles of cyberspace.
The emphasis has been on rapid expansion of the Internet and on speed, with security and loss prevention trailing behind as it usually does in all forms of American business. What's more, security on the Internet takes work on part of the whole Internet community, just as security off the Internet, in the real rather than the virtual world, requires participation by the whole community, by the massively connected but disconnected groups and people that use the Internet all over the globe. And on top of that the Internet's structure and tradition are wide open, with the flavor of the wild west. The Internet has no hierarchy, no centralized control, no ownership in the hands of some controlling authority. So the Internet is a sitting duck for attacks from all over the world.