Security Concerns

High-speed internet is considered more secure and reliable; however, it also allows even more of one’s personal information to be distributed across the web and can be accessed at any time by hackers. For example, in South Korea, the music industry is booming and has some of the largest fan bases on Earth. However, this industry has also fostered a type of fans called sasaengs (or “privates”). These fans have been known to tap into CCTV networks and surveillance celebrities in their homes as well as produce identical copies of cellphones that they can intercept and answer incoming calls from. These sasaengs, mostly young female students, can find the most intimate details of someone’s life including the addresses of their family or even their financial information. They can even use GPS to track down a celebrity’s movements through taxi cab workers across social networking sites in real time. This frightening abuse of internet access in Korea highlights the dangers of high-speed internet access for civilians and even criminals.