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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