| Business | | | | to control the publicly posted investment tips, most do |
| The terms "network" and "distributed processing" have | | | | not try to control most communications on the service. |
| customarily been used to refer to relatively small, tightly | | | | Some of the commercial services also allow users to |
| interfaced groups of processors and are thus | | | | use various aliases, making it all the more difficult for |
| inadequate to use in reference to such a huge | | | | investigators to figure out who they are really |
| complex of computers as would be formed by the | | | | communication with. Although the Internet will support |
| potential linkage of all the home and business | | | | commercial services, they rarely will depend on |
| computers of America. Having a number of escrow | | | | advertising. The most successful new ventures often |
| agents would give individuals and businesses more | | | | will arise from three-way collaborations; skills of each |
| choices and flexibility in meeting their needs for secure | | | | are essential to create and deliver network-based |
| communications. Bringing together people with diverse | | | | information products and services. Some specialists |
| points of view that appealed to communities. | | | | work for temporary agencies that contract their |
| Services | | | | services to different companies. |
| With nearly 4 million computer users nationwide linked | | | | Security |
| into commercial computer services and 20 million | | | | Security problems are the number-one concern in the |
| people on the internet, a world-wide computer | | | | design and establishment of businesses on the net. |
| network, "it is almost too big to police effectively. While | | | | Security shredding document destruction disposal data |
| many commercial online services like CompuServe | | | | recycling paper product tape magnetic media |
| and Prodigy have built electronic shopping malls where | | | | destruction incineration waste disposal. CDS are |
| virtual vendors peddle their wares, advertising is a | | | | dedicated to the disposal of confidential waste, which |
| touchy subject on the Internet itself. It is also possible | | | | is essential to protect your business from competition |
| that as key escrow encryption technology spreads, | | | | and scandal. Computer security specialists set up plans |
| companies may established layered escrowing | | | | to protect your companies business information and |
| services for their own products. However, it is | | | | technology from outsiders. Computer security |
| necessary to ensure that between now and the time | | | | specialists work with companies to build secure |
| that such capacity is unlimited, that there is meaningful | | | | computer systems. |
| access available for those entities proving important | | | | Software |
| educational, cultural, informational, civic and charitable | | | | Specialists can install software that protects the |
| services to the public. Promoters tend to advertise | | | | information. They may also make changes to existing |
| offers or stock tips on the financial bulletin board | | | | software,Modify files or write new software to limit |
| sections of on-line computer services such as | | | | access. Test equipment, software, or procedures to |
| CompuServe, America Online and Prodigy, or in the | | | | make sure they operate correctly. If the data is |
| specialized discussion forums in the Internet. While | | | | available to people over the Internet, specialists may |
| some commercial computer bulletin board services try | | | | build firewalls. |