The web: a hacker's heaven and an on-line system

Abstract

The internet was supposed to be an interconnection of independent distributed computer and information systems; the web was formally introduced in 1994 at the first conference now known as WWW1 in Geneva, It was supposed to make easier access to a trove of decentralized, independently owned information, The web has made it possible for billions of users to access the internet and its resources. As with any project, whether software or not, unless it is thoroughly thought out, the final outcome has bugs, commissions, omissions, vulnerabilities, and shortfalls. The web has made it possible for a small number of corporations to amass huge quantities of private information and mine them for profit. In this survey paper, we have shown how some of these shortfalls of the web and have impacted CrsMgr, an online course management system and what has been attempted to address these issues.