Nearly every thing in life these days is password encoded. Your MySpace account, YouTube video account, Email account, Bank Account, etc. Nobody in their right minds would leave these important things containing sensitive information unsecured. This would be an identity thieves nightmare. You do in fact leave something completely unprotected each day without even realizing it; your Internet activity.

Internet activity you ask? Why is this something that needs to be secured and password protected? The truth is, hackers can intercept your transmissions from your computer and trace you right back to the source. A hacker could actually find your house through these signals, and then you’d have more than data insecurity to worry about. Imagine if your child was using the Internet and a hacker traced them back to your house! Also, these hackers can place tracking cookies on your computer and track you all around the Internet.

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You may have heard privacy sites use the term “cloud computing” and speak of it as a privacy issue. If you aren’t privy to the vernacular of Internet users, cloud computing refers to storing information virtually on the Internet, instead of on private, physical servers. There are a couple of tangible advantages to this; for one, you don’t have to take up such a massive amount of space for huge computer servers. Then, it is cheaper. The Internet has unlimited storage space, and is often very cheap or free to put all of your information there. Lastly, it isn’t the company’s responsibility to store, look after, and keep safe the information of its clientele. While this all sounds good, you know the old saying: there’s two sides to every coin.

This universal adoption of cloud computing among many different companies represents a serious privacy concern. First of all, these companies are no longer the ones protecting the information. When the data is stored on their own physical, private computer network, it would be significantly harder for a hacker to break in and steal all sorts of sensitive information. These things almost never happened.

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The current Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is wreaking havoc on his civilian’s rights to access the Internet and other mediums freely. The Iranians are fighting back; not in a physical sense, but are evading these new bans.

The Iranians today are blogging on FaceBook, sending anti-leader protest on Twitter, and Ahmadinejad is quaking in his boots. He is desperate to shutdown these opposing forces. These Iranians are headstrong; despite recent additions and blocks, their Internet activity has actually increased!

The most popular content on Twitter currently is related to these Iranians. Protests, photos, and imperative blogs have caught the interest of not only the citizens of Iran, but everyone around the world.

In a less-than-democratic nation such as Iran, holding public protests can have dire consequences, so a grassroots system has taken place; these new candidates for office are doing their protests and advertising online. One of these e-candidates is Mir Hussein Moussavi. One account all about him (Moussavi1388) has won over nearly 7000 fans, and meticulous updates and news spearhead the assault on a bad government.

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The U.S. Military is the heart and soul of America. These are people who would give their lives for freedom, and to protect rights of Americans they don’t even know.

Even with this larger than life persona, these soldiers are just average people. They value family, happiness, and fun just as much as everybody else. When they signed up for duty, it was with the knowledge that they might have to leave their home for a long period of time. This is just part of the duty, but it doesn’t take away from the ache going away from their home and country will cause.

While traveling or being stationed internationally, some military members get homesick. If you are in a different country for an extended period of time, loneliness can easily dominate your trip. If soldiers begin to find themselves forgetting the smell of an old fashioned barbeque, or the pleasure of hanging out with friends and family, then maybe watching some good old American television is a great way to restore their morale.

Unfortunately re-runs of “The Honeymooners” get old quickly and can lead to a strange affinity for communism. Only kidding, but it can get boring.

Along came internet TV, a godsend to the nomads of the globe. Imagine a soldier’s joy when they get a chance to connect back to their culture, and feel at one with the U.S. again. They could catch up on affairs overseas, whether it is watching the stock market, or just to see what antics Britney Spears has been up to lately.

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