New Delhi:
Web changing into an more and more unsafe place the place folks can lose cash and extra, ‘Father of Web’ Vint Cerf advised NDTV as we speak that he has usually advocated an “Internet Driver’s license”, which might be one thing like a driving license.
Requested if he was apprehensive about the way forward for web the place a scammer appears to be round each nook, he stated, “The red flag of suspicion should be flying”.
“If you get a request for money or some other kind of help, and it has an urgency built into it and everything else. The red flag of suspicions should be flying. You should be asking questions about where did this come from,” Dr Cerf, who can be the Chief Web Evangelist of Google, advised NDTV in an unique interview.
“You probably have heard the term phishing… People send these emails and try to get people to click on links that either will take them to a place they shouldn’t be, maybe it downloads malware, which makes it even worse… they look like they are a legitimate party, but they just copy the web pages from the legitimate party… they are taking your money someplace else,” he stated.
One needs to be asking if the request could be corroborated in any method, he stated.
“I think that we would like to make it hard for people to exercise those scams,” Dr Cerf stated.
“Why don’t we have an ‘internet driver’s license’ and you have to take a class where you learn about what the hazards are and how to defend yourself. Like defensive driving, we want internet driving. I think we just need to teach our population that there are other people that don’t have your best interests at heart and this is how they manifest that and this is how you defend yourself,” he added.