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Essay Archive - 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 ....
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