Aleks in Wonderland: The World Wide Villain - Episode 2

With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet
access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of
academics and computer hobbyists. Already prior to the web, the
burgeoning internet user groups and chatrooms had tested what was
acceptable behaviour online, but access was still limited.


Aleks Krotoski asks whether the Web through enabling much wider
use of the internet is the villain of the piece in facilitating
not just entertainment and commerce, but all aspects of the
darker side, from malicious computer hacking attacks, worms and
viruses, to new channels for criminality, online extortion and
identity theft.


Produced by Julian Siddle. First broadcast on Wednesday 23 August
2017.