Authenticating a person means to verify his/her identity. In cyberspace, absence of relatively self-authenticating makes it extremely difficult to regulate behavior, especially among the young kids. Like for example, In real space if kids go to watch adult movies or go to buy liquor then he/she will definitely ask for true age and once his age is verified then he/she is allowed to purchase or watch such movies. Also by looking at person, one can easily find the physical attributes of that person like age (most of the time), race, gender and so on. Hence authenticating one's identity in real space makes it really easy to regulate behavior and control the crime and other illegal activities.
But cyberspace lacks such self-authenticating mechanism. Like most of the adult web site has got some sort of authentication like before visiting those site people were ask their actual age but that in fact doesn't make any difference whether the person is kids or adults because he/she is not visible and can't control their behavior. Hence authenticating in cyberspace poses serious issues and sometime that leads to criminal activities also. Like, these days we often heard news that person's identity has stolen or one become victimized or even committed suicide related to some social activities in cyberspace. These types of crime related to cyberspace is very difficult to track since people can use fake identity specially in social sites like my-space, face-book and so on. Almost 1 in 5 young school kids in USA is victimized by some sort of cyber bullying. All of these activities are direct consequences of fake authentication or lack of authentication in cyberspace. Internet architecture or network infrastructure has provided no mechanism to control such activities. All these mechanism has to be implemented at the end of the Internet (which is in application itself) and websites like social networking doesn't provide such mechanism till now.
But in the other hand, activities related to the transactions like online banking, shopping and so on required authentication and authorization about the person's identity. This is mostly achieved by asking person principal/credential and other security related questions. Hence commercial web site has secured their business and transaction through layer of security and authentication mechanism and able to regulate the activities. But cyberspace doesn't only consist of banking, shopping and other commercial web site but also includes other web sites like social networking site and other illegal mature and adult site. Most of these sites are free of cost which is how young kids have access without or with very weak authentication mechanism.
Hence looking at these trends in cyberspace, the proper mechanism of authentications still lack in cyberspace and the kinds of protections for privacy and autonomy are still needed.
But cyberspace lacks such self-authenticating mechanism. Like most of the adult web site has got some sort of authentication like before visiting those site people were ask their actual age but that in fact doesn't make any difference whether the person is kids or adults because he/she is not visible and can't control their behavior. Hence authenticating in cyberspace poses serious issues and sometime that leads to criminal activities also. Like, these days we often heard news that person's identity has stolen or one become victimized or even committed suicide related to some social activities in cyberspace. These types of crime related to cyberspace is very difficult to track since people can use fake identity specially in social sites like my-space, face-book and so on. Almost 1 in 5 young school kids in USA is victimized by some sort of cyber bullying. All of these activities are direct consequences of fake authentication or lack of authentication in cyberspace. Internet architecture or network infrastructure has provided no mechanism to control such activities. All these mechanism has to be implemented at the end of the Internet (which is in application itself) and websites like social networking doesn't provide such mechanism till now.
But in the other hand, activities related to the transactions like online banking, shopping and so on required authentication and authorization about the person's identity. This is mostly achieved by asking person principal/credential and other security related questions. Hence commercial web site has secured their business and transaction through layer of security and authentication mechanism and able to regulate the activities. But cyberspace doesn't only consist of banking, shopping and other commercial web site but also includes other web sites like social networking site and other illegal mature and adult site. Most of these sites are free of cost which is how young kids have access without or with very weak authentication mechanism.
Hence looking at these trends in cyberspace, the proper mechanism of authentications still lack in cyberspace and the kinds of protections for privacy and autonomy are still needed.
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