Security, Privacy, and National Vulnerability

Willis H. Ware

ResearchPublished 1981

The author suggests that the argument "a computer is different" is mythology in many instances and acts to obscure major issues that center around the use of computers. He relates this argument to both privacy, the transborder data flow situation, and to a variety of national vulnerability questions that have been raised by a Swedish report. He suggests that we need a general umbrella under which such diverse things as electronic fund transfer systems, electronic mail systems, and point-of-sale systems can legally protect personal information. He further suggests that there are technological or other answers to such national vulnerabilities as communication circuits passing through many countries, sensitive national databases, physical vulnerability of individual computing centers, and manipulation of national data systems by a foreign country.

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