Buying groceries, paying bills, purchasing clothes, seeking medical advice—cyberspace has become a vital part of everyone’s daily lives. According to the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), total worldwide Internet users now exceed 600 million. In 2008, the number of users worldwide will pass the three-billion mark. In fact, the Internet is the most rapidly adopted technology ever—it has taken only eight years for it to reach 58 percent of households (versus 38 years for the telephone).