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By China at 9:48 AM

Some people have been saying that the whole internet has to be dismantled and recreated to safeguard for the sorts of problems it faces today. I personally think that that will never happen on a large scale because that would simply shut down many people's lives. We have become so dependent upon the system we have today that to deprive people of that would be an act of cruelty. That's not to say that there wouldn't be a lot of value and unused funding when it comes to the current budgets for security and safety.

The internet we have is fraught with problems, loopholes, and glitches. There are people out there working twenty-four hours a day to try and keep it all going. People from the electrician all the way to the software designer are trying to make the best of what we have and make it all work more elegantly than ever before. The biggest thing that would change in the process of revamping the internet from scratch would be that we could safeguard from things like sql injection which is by far the easiest way for hackers to just destroy lives on the internet. Identity theft would have to be done another way.

For now though the key to managing internet use is the constant development of the security scanner software. Internet viruses and hackers develop like real world illnesses. They begin as something simple and over time and exposure to new remedies, they adapt and destroy. Those people working on the security systems will never get a day off because there is a constant supply of people out there who think that they can make it rich through stealing information on the internet. Though they are correct if they are successful, the longer they are out there hacking, the more likely someone will develop a program to catch them. If they make one wrong turn or try and hack one wrong site they are going to jail for a very long time.

Though it may be fairly easy for us to recreate a new internet out of a totally new system if people can live without it for a bit, we must live with what we have and try to overcome those who are using it for their own negative actions.