The Inland Revenue's security problem highlights clearly that the internet can only work and can only deliver the benefits it has promised if all the people and companies involved work together.

BBC: The problem with e-government

One problem today is that few stand in any position to make security guarantees on an Internet with a built-in, open and trusting architecture.

FORBES: Cybersecurity Theater vs. The Real Thing

Once the security problem is licked, communal Wi-Fi microcells will take over many of the wireless Internet functions that phone companies hope to offer, Carrico says.

FORBES: Mr. and Mrs. Network