Imagine the scene. It's late at night. The lone cyberspace explorer sits in his anonymous flat behind his anonymous terminal and stares at his PC's winking cursor.
Where to go? The whole World Wide Web is before him. And where he goes in this private, vast world is just between him and his hard drive.
Or, more accurately, between him, his hard drive and a potential audience of 40 million pairs of eyes.
In fact, his world is anything but private.
Every silky tap on his keyboard is recorded like a footprint in the sand.
Every site he visits, every picture he downloads and every message he sends is logged by his Internet server.
But what do most Internet users have to fear - people who like to check the latest soccer results or download a crossword or two? The answer, according to Internet watchdogs, is plenty.
