What Does unsafety Mean
The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) defines insecurity as the lack of security . This concept, which derives from the Latin securĭtas , refers to that which is exempt from danger, damage or risk, or which is true, firm and indubitable.
More precisely, we can determine that this word, based on its Latin etymological origin, is made up of the union of several parts: the prefix - in which is equivalent to negation, the word se that can be translated as "separate", curus which is synonymous with "care" and finally the suffix - ity equivalent to "quality".
Therefore, insecurity implies the existence of a danger or risk (for example, “in this neighborhood there is a lot of insecurity, I have already been assaulted three times” ), or it reflects a certain doubt about a certain issue ( “Working with this machine makes me insecure, I don't know how it works ” ).
Just as there are different types of security (food security, legal security, etc.), the term insecurity can have different uses. One of them is applied to everyday or citizen security, which refers to the possibility of suffering a crime on public roads . In this sense, insecurity is fought with the presence of police forces in the streets.
Also in Spain in recent years, and perhaps influenced by the global economic crisis that is being experienced, there has been a considerable increase in insecurity at home. And it is that more and more people see their homes being robbed by criminals who enter them willing to take everything of value that is in them. A fact that on many occasions gives rise to the inhabitants of the home not only suffering the logical fright but also considerable bruises because some of these thieves do not hesitate to use violence in a forceful way to achieve their objectives.
In the same way, reference to what is known as emotional insecurity should not be overlooked. This term is used to define the feeling of fear and nervousness that some people have as a consequence, among other things, of the image and perception they have about themselves.
Thus, considering that they do not have certain capacities, that they do not have value, together with their lack of confidence in their possibilities, are the causes that cause someone to have emotional insecurity.
Regarding computer insecurity , it refers to the possibility that cyber-criminals illegally access a person's computer equipment or data . In this way, the intruder can steal the user's bank keys or infect his computer with malicious software.
It should be noted that hacking is the direct intrusion into a computer system using some vulnerability. Therefore, the hacker takes advantage of computer insecurity, although his goal is not always theft. There are hackers who enter the systems to demonstrate the lack of security and ask for the creation of a patch that solves the problem.