The information wants to be free!?!?

Late post... I’ve got the course reader on Tuesday, finally! Anyways, the topic in this week is...was about hackers, we discussed in the Thursday class how the idea of ‘the information wants to be free’ is understood and appears in our society today etc (although I couldn’t participate well...). The internet is amazing tool as we know, people use the internet with various purposes and it’s hard to imagine the life without the internet since the internet giving us unlimited pleasure by exchanging the information faster with people sharing the same interest from all over the world. I’ve learnt the brief history of the hackers through course reader. It should not be forgotten that such a convenient tool we have is by grateful work of those hackers in 1960s! They invented the original internet from their strong curious and belief of the idea of ‘The information wants to be free’, and brought the internet into public, we have more choices through it and usually those are more sophisticated. Human curiosity is extremely strong and sometimes very powerful. When you see some kind of magic show, don’t you want to know its mysterious trick? Of course i do!! I am not a hobbyist but curiosity is always very important energy for making something better and newer. However, a development of an ethic of a free exchange of information through networks in decentralized power structure could be contradictory to privacy. An invasion of the privacy is quite a serious current issue so hackers today tend to be seen as a criminal because of their offensive works by breaking the systems, cracking, etc to get individual information. The position of hackers has been changing as society context has changed. The importance of the privacy should be emphasized to construct peaceful human society and to well corporate with people in a certain community, so I doubt an extreme favor of a free and open exchanging of infomation today is not always a happy thing to go through and we may need to watch out more carefully about our privacy. Individual may have to take responsibility for the potencial network disaster. I consider that nothing may become more expensive than information in this information society today.

Mm? Is it off topic?? Anyways i'll leave it~