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• Experts cast a wary eye over new online payment systems

The new payment systems remove the risk of giving credit card details online, but if the banks won't play ball the hackers will pounce

In Britain two new internet payment systems were introduced. With these payment systems, POLi and eWise, people do not have to submit any creditcard details when making a transaction on the internet. These new systems simply connect you with the webpage of own bank, which means that you can use the online banking service of your bank to pay online. But there are question to the safety of these new systems. Do they really provide safety or is it false sense of security.

READ MORE: [1] The Guardian, U.K. Thursday March 20, 2008

• Paying with plastic on the internet

Paying with your own bank account on the internet is a safe method, as long as you know who you are dealing with and you take your safety measures.

READ MORE: [2] NRC Handelsblad, The Netherland, April 4, 2006 ('Pinnen op het internet', DUTCH ARTICLE)

• After the OV-chipcard, now also a leak in passport chips

The OV-chipcard and the new (chipcard)passport are examples of passes which contain personal, confidential information about people. Especially a passport. It is now found out that these chips are not as safe as they should be. These chips can not secure digital data privacy.

READ MORE: [3] Trouw, April 8, 2008 ('Na OV-chipkaart nu ook lek in paspoort', DUTCH ARTICLE)

• E-Government and Security Case Studies

If you click on the link, you will find all sorts of interesting case studies about e-government and security. Read how "Germany's smallest City state, Bremen, is about to be the country's leading light in e-Government. [4] Tech Republic, E-government and Security Case Studies.

• The Great Firewall of China

Censorship in the People's Republic of China

The Chinese government tries to protect its Political Security and the stability in China by censoring certain Western websites and websites which give criticism on sensitive issues for China like Tibet or Taiwan. Websites that are censored are for example, BBC news, Google and YouTube. [5] NRC Handelsblad 12-06-2006 p. 16 [6]NOS News, 25-03-2008

China uses measures that are designed for the protection of for example digital data. Though China uses these measures for the protection of its own Political Security. The term 'Great Firewall of China' refers to the digital measures that China has taken to censor the internet and other digital sources.

Further reading about the Great Firewall of China and other websites that are censored by the Chinese government: [7] www.greatfirewallofchina.org

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This section of the portal is in-depth and hands-on at the same time. Anything included here should link the portal theme to what is happening in real life. Any examples which are too elaborate to mention in the portal 'boxes' above can fit in here. You may also want to scan the rest if this wiki for relevant examples to link to! And there may also be case studies in here providing a useful illustration for issues around this portal's theme. This box definitely has more room than the other sections, but dedicate this room to a large number of items (wiki)linking to other pages for further reading, rather than to few items with long texts!

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