The Necessity Of Computer Security

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Term Paper Title	The Necessity Of Computer Security
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The Necessity Of Computer Security

The Necessity Of Computer Security

     When the first electronic computers emerged from university and military
laboratories in the late 1940s and early 1950s, visionaries proclaimed them the
harbingers of a second industrial revolution that would transform business,
government and industry.  But few laymen, even if they were aware of the
machines, could see the connection.  Experts too, were sceptical.  Not only were
computers huge, expensive, one-of-a-kind devices designed for performing
abstruse scientific and military calculations, such as cracking codes and
calculations missile trajectories, they were also extremely difficult to handle.

     Now, it is clear that computers are not only here to stay, but they have a
profound effect on society as well.  As John McCarthy, Professor of Computer
Science at Stanford University, speculated in 1966: "The computer gives signs of
becoming the contemporary counterpart of the steam engine that brought on the
industrial revolution - one that is still gathering momentum and whose true
nature had yet to be seen."

     Today's applications of computers are vast.  They are used to run ordinary
household appliances such as televisions and microwaves, to being tools in the
workplaces through word processing, spreadsheets, and graphics software, to
running monumental tasks such as being the heart and soul of the nations tax
processing department, and managing the project timetables of the Space Shuttle.
It is obvious that the computer is now and always will be inexorably linked to
our lives, and we have no choice but to accept this technology and learn how to
harness its total potential.

     With any progressing technology, an unauthorized application can almost be
found for it. A computer could and has been used for theft and fraud - for
example, as a database and manager of illegal activities such as drug
trafficking and pornography.  However, we must not just consider the harmful
applications of the computer, but also take into account the good that they have
caused.

     When society embraced the computer technology, we have to treat this as an
extension of what we already have at hand.  This means that some problems that
we had before the computer era may also arise now, in the form where computers
are an accessory to a crime.

     One of the problems that society has faced ever since the dawn of
civilization is privacy. The issue of privacy on the Internet has risen many...

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