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The article focuses on an addressing system called IP address and relates it with the privacy of personal computers. A proposal to improve the way information flows across the Internet has caused worries for privacy advocates that the design could be used to trace a person's identity. The proposal, an addressing system called IPv6, was created by the Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, and would include a unique serial number for each computer's network connection as part of its expanded new IP address. Critics warn that, if adopted, the move could strip the anonymity and security of Internet users over traditional phone lines, allowing commercial sites to correlate these embedded serial numbers against a consumer's name, address, and other personal details, from clothing size to political affiliation. Today, most home computers are assigned a different IP address each time they connect. According to a lawyer of Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg, although IPv6 would not be widely used for years, there is no doubt there are serious privacy concerns.

The article presents information about the Internet sabotage. A new type of Internet sabotage is spreading and has now occurred at more than a dozen Web sites around the U.S. Attacks which tie up network computers so that other users cannot gain access have created nuisance. Hackers bombard an Internet server with more than 100 requests per second for service, each coming from a randomly generated false address while shutting out legitimate users. The Computer Emergency Response Team formed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducts research for improving computing security and drafted an advisory detailing the nature of the attack and its impact on the Internet community. Security officials are concerned because this type of hacking exploits the basic scheme of the Internet, software protocols, routing instructions, on which the Internet has based and they were not designed to prevent message flooding.