Letter: Brave new world
Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The drive by Tony Blair to push Britain to be the leading G7 country in business to business and business to consumer transactions is both highly laudable and highly flawed.
The e-commerce@its.best.uk report fails to adequately address the huge security risks of cyberspace in credit card transactions and computer viruses.
Virus attacks can seriously threaten businesses. Consumers could find their whole computer hard drive wiped after receiving an e-mail from a known and trusted source. Indeed, it has been predicted that future wars will be fought not on the ground, but in cyberspace with electronic viruses.
The security of financial transactions has also recently been highlighted in the Credit Card Research Group's report that 1 in 10 of Net retailers' transactions are fraudulent as opposed to 1 in 200 for traditional retailers' business.
Clearly, people need to be assured of the safety of Internet transactions before venturing into cyberspace and measures need to be taken to assure their security.
Taking leadership in the area of computer security will help us to gain business and consumers confidence and help Britain make its mark in the e-commerce landscape.
JEREMY BATES
Managing Director
Panda Software
Leatherhead, Surrey
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments