We're all entangled in the world wide web

All of this clearly serves to highlight the reality that the internet is not merely a force for good – as anyone who has had their identity, or their bank account, hacked will know all too then.

The in other words fanciful

Apple’s recently launched iCloud presents the in other words fanciful and misleading notion of the internet representing an enormous gentle benign fluffy force, which will take good care of all the information that has been poured into it.

There have always been security and junk-related problems with the internet, nevertheless even as we increase our reliance on internet-based communication – as anyone rendered incommunicado by Vodacom last week will appreciate – it does seem that the threats are increasing exponentially.