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Social Consequences
Increasing use of IT in critical areas
- Infrastructure control and operations
- heat, light, communication, transportation
- Crime prevention, detection, and response
- 911, alarms, databases, genetic analysis
- Criminals released, innocents jailed by computers
- Medical, environmental, science
- diagnosis, treatment, storage, analysis, ...
- Financial transactions
- shopping, credit cards, wire transfers, ...
- Global crime moving toward the Internet
- law enforcement is moving there too
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