Information flows freely on the Internet, and it's relatively
easy for someone to tap into some of that flow and retrieve information.
Your e-mail can be read without you knowing it and the information
that you submit and retrieve from Web sites is similarly vulnerable--unless
you're using security. The Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers
allow for information coming into and going out of your computer
over the Internet to be encrypted, so that if it is intercepted
it will be illegible. That way, confidential information like
credit card numbers can be transmitted securely. In Netscape,
a secure Web page has a blue stripe across the top and a key
button at the bottom right hand corner that looks like this:
If you don't have Netscape,
download it at http://home.netscape.com.
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