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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......

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