Remote access
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The Internet allows computer users to connect to other computers and
information stores easily, wherever they may be across the world.
They may do this with or without the use of security, authentication
and encryption technologies, depending on the requirements.
This is encouraging new ways of working from home, collaboration and
information sharing in many industries. An accountant sitting at
home can audit the books of a company based in another country, on a
server situated in a third country that is remotely maintained by IT
specialists in a fourth. These accounts could have been created by
home-working book-keepers, in other remote locations, based on
information e-mailed to them from offices all over the world. Some
of these things were possible before the widespread use of the
Internet, but the cost of private, leased lines would have made many
of them infeasible in practice. |
An office worker away from his desk, perhaps the other side of the
world on a business trip or a holiday, can open a remote desktop
session into his normal office PC using a secure Virtual Private
Network (VPN) connection via the Internet. This gives him complete
access to all his normal files and data, including e-mail and other
applications, while he is away.
This concept is also referred to by some network security people as
the Virtual Private Nightmare, because it extends the secure
perimeter of a corporate network into its employees' homes; this has
been the source of some notable security breaches.CollaborationThis low-cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge
and skills has revolutionized some, and given rise to whole new,
areas of human activity. One example of this is the collaborative
development and distribution of Free/Libre/Open-Source Software
(FLOSS) such as Linux, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org.File-sharingA computer file can be e-mailed to customers, colleagues and friends
as an attachment. It can be uploaded to a website or FTP server for
easy download by others. It can be put into a "shared location" or
onto a file server for instant use by colleagues. The load of bulk
downloads to many users can be eased by the use of "mirror" servers
or peer-to-peer networking.
In any of these cases, access to the file may be controlled by user
authentication; the transit of the file over the Internet may be
obscured by encryption and money may change hands before or after
access to the file is given. The price can be paid by the remote
charging of funds from, for example a credit card whose details are
also passed - hopefully fully encrypted - across the Internet. The
origin and authenticity of the file received may be checked by
digital signatures or by MD5 or other message digests.
These simple features of the Internet, over a world-wide basis, are
changing the basis for the production, sale and distribution of many
types of product, wherever they can be reduced to a computer file
for transmission. This includes all manner of office documents,
publications, software products, music, photography, video,
animations, graphics and the other arts. This in turn is causing
seismic shifts in each of the existing industry associations, such
as the RIAA and MPAA in the USA, that previously controlled the
production and distribution of these products in that country. |
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