Her name is Angela Bennett and she is but a victim of a database gone wrong.A 1995 movie, “The Net” stars Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett, a computer analyst whose life revolves around cyberspace. The movie is but a show of how people’s identities are now available within the net making locating and background checking easy. In this story, however, Angela searches for her identity as a cracker has hacked the national database and has exchanged her personal data with a person with a criminal background check.
The story may be fictitious yet in every great story lies a good basis, especially that with a criminal background. It adds juice to the plot giving it a lively gist for action. However, there is this question of whether such an event has a possibility of occurring especially with the modernity of living basing mostly with just a push of a button.
How reliable is the storage of public database?
Computers rule! It seems that everything relies on the words we type to the commands we click. “The Net” pictures a young analyst whose social life relied entirely on the technological craftsmanship called the internet. She is but a clear example of how people are hooked up with computers. Financing, working and shopping is easily done even in the comfort of one’s home. For Angela’s life, however, her net acquaintance has just passed her with vital information that involves National government concern. It has cost her a lover, a job, and an identity. In reality, sad to say, without the right security, the net can cost us our identities too.
There are many identity thieves that lurks the society nowadays. Yes—there is truth in the movie’s plot. Identities can be hacked and stolen even with personal data usually seen through social networking sites. The worst case scenario is for the victims to be pictured as the crooks as they are framed and identified as the guilty side. The once working of an imagination can now be deemed as reality—and this is one dangerous reality to ponder too.
With the know-how and the right keys to click, getting inside one’s system is but a jiff. This is one glitch public personal database’s maintenance must learn about. Protecting the interest of the public is a must and should be upheld at all times.
Angela Bennett has been framed and terrorized. But with this experience alone, it has given her way to be the antivirus against the viral workings of the cracker and the real Ruth Marx. In the end, as she reveals their plans, Angela, gets her identity back and things go back to normal. There is no telling when we’ll be victims of a database gone wrong, but one thing is for sure, the net also keeps us equipped with the right tools to defeat this mass evasiveness.
