One of the strengths of digital communications is the ability to momentarily borrow an insanely expensive computer network, such as using the Internet, to deliver a message, make a purchase or look up information. . .
One of the strengths of digital communications is the ability to momentarily borrow an insanely expensive computer network, such as using the Internet, to deliver a message, make a purchase or look up information.

Ironically, this most freeing quality of the computer age has also become its most troublesome aspect. Since we share these services with many other people, we have to identify ourselves with digital "keys" each time we use one. And it's these same identification keys, which provide the convenience of use, that can invite misuse by identity thieves.

E-commerce is a misnomer. Even if they have no online presence, most regional, national and global businesses have adopted the strengths and weaknesses of e-commerce. The main element of e-commerce is about restructuring a business so that it is database driven. This is the dirty secret of CRM--that it dehumanizes the customers and replaces them with numbers.

If you know the right keys to authenticate yourself to a computer system as someone, then for all intents and purposes you are that person in every possible way.