This circumstance permits us to make a correlation of the security shortcomings in the postal framework and the Internet. ... An illustration of misuse in the postal framework was accounted for in a Roanoke Times daily paper reproduction of a Los Angeles Times article that portrays a criminal taking postal mail from letter boxes [7]. The cheats were taking bills, paychecks and other buyer personality related mail from the exploited person's home letter boxes or from the postal framework's road post boxes. ... Security guidelines, controls and practices have been created inside the fu...

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If the user did wish to remove him or herself from a mailing list, upon opening the email there should be a link that would fulfil this task. ... What might take days to distribute and mail, fax or phone hundreds of potential customers can be done in a couple of minutes. ... Furthermore, email is reliable, the information is not likely to be lost in postage or discarded by indifferent postal workers. ... Using opt-in mailing lists is a great benefit for the company, for they can send emails to only those who want to read them. ...

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In this day and age, although the old lines of communication are still available, such as land line telephones and the United States Postal Service, most people prefer to use the new technology so they can communicate instantly with people across the country or across the world. ... In "Stalking Celebrities," Heather Havrilesky tells about how "celebrities were cornered and tagged by surveillance cameras, digital cameras, cellphones, voice mails, e-mails, downloaded files, and anonymous posts in comment sections" (446). ...

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The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). E-mail is the transfer of information from one user to another in an essentially private communication that has much in common with standard postal services. ... His story was a "violent narrative of rape and torture" and he later e-mailed his friend that "just thinking about it his fantasies doesn't do the trick anymore. ...

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This need alone lead to the development of computers "talking " thus creating a interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly and easily access data and programs from any site across the country, "1964, some researchers had begun using their enormous mainframe computers to occasionally trade information by an early, informal form of e-mail but the purpose wasn't to formulate a research network; they were just trying to get their work done efficiently." ... "Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign staff sent out e-mail several times a day in the fall of 1976, earni...

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