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Feeling actually that there is no border line
Offering to others
"Let's enjoy and be better the life in the countryside with computer
network!"
The company gathered and made COARA to realize the dream. We can say,
that have a element of local promotion and a volunteer spirit.
Actually the Internet was rested on the basis of volunteer spirit.
They connect all the computer in the world by telephone line. But each
of them pays the telephone charge only to next one. If the data was his,
he gets it, and if not he passes it to next.
In this way, the data circulates through the all computers, and we make
up the communication of computers . We offer even our communication
line and computer to others, and there is a volunteer spirit.
There isn't much meaning in stealing the data.
That is to say, the Internet by way of COARA has double volunteer
spirit, so we can understand that there are lively positively atmosphere.
They each bring the data and the information for others with pleasure.
They use the Internet for showing the data positively by homepages or
by other way.
So they don't have a secret. Needless to say, they have some secret
of privacy like private electric mail. But the data they brought are not
secret data. They would like to show them. So there isn't much meaning
in hacking and stealing the data. Japanese local computer network might
have such a common sense before.
The cracker
But they fell into a pitfall. Someone vanished the Internet system of
the COARA and the data on this April 12th before dawn. There is a
"cracker" who crack the data for the purpose of cracking.
In general, they distinguish "hacker" from "cracker" in America. A
person who has a highly technique as he can invade the difficult system
is called "hacker". And a person who does something wrong and damages
to others is called "cracker".It's natural that there are crackers.
There are fellow who enjoy breaking down other's belongings or public
facilities, in the world. Depending upon the "Myth of Japan" caused
such a indifference.
Announcement of the Korea authorities
As the Internet is connected with all the world, there is no border
line. So we shouldn't depend upon only Japanese common sense. In June,
Korea authorities announced that it was possible that the cracker break
down the data of COARA from inside or outside of this country by way of
Korean computer network , in the newspaper and on TV which we didn't know.
By a chain of events, we were made to feel actually that the Internet
is moving in the world wide scale.
written by Tooru Ono, the chief of the NEW COARA secretariat
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