The idea of insecurity is usually linked to the possibility of suffering a crime.
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 free from danger, damage or risk, or that is certain, 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 which can be translated as "separate", curus which is synonymous with “care” and finally the suffix – dad which is 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 attacked three times" ), or reflects a certain doubt about a certain issue ( "Working with this machine makes me insecure, I don't know how it works» ).
Insecurity linked to crime on public roads
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 combated with the presence of police forces on the streets.
Likewise in Spain in recent years, and perhaps influenced by the global economic crisis that is being experienced, there has been a considerable increase in home insecurity. And more and more people see their homes being robbed by criminals who enter them ready to take everything of value in them. A fact that on many occasions results in the inhabitants of the home not only suffering the logical scare but also considerable bruises since some of these thieves do not hesitate to use violence in a forceful way to achieve their objectives.
Computer insecurity is associated with the violation of a person's personal data through the Internet for a criminal purpose.
Cybercrime
Regarding computer insecurity , it refers to the possibility of a cybercriminal illegally accessing a person's computer equipment or data. This way, the intruder can steal the user's banking keys or infect their computer with malicious software.
It should be noted that hacking is the direct intrusion into a computer system using some vulnerability. For this reason, the hacker takes advantage of computer insecurity, although his objective is not always theft. There are hackers who enter systems to demonstrate the lack of security and request the creation of a patch to solve the problem.
emotional insecurity
In the same way, we should not overlook referring to what is known as emotional insecurity . 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 of themselves.
Thus, considering that they do not have certain abilities, that they do not have worth, together with their lack of confidence in their possibilities, are the causes that cause someone to have emotional insecurity.