Book review: Cyberphobia

The internet is incompatible with security, both national and personal, because it was never a priority from its inception according to a new book, says JP O’Malley.

IF YOU want to understand why a steady security system seems so incompatible with the borderless nature of the online world, a helpful exercise is to look back to origins of the internet itself.

Back in the late 1960s, a group of American engineers, using distributed packet switching technology, developed a plan to connect a number of computers together.