The Secure Information Society - Ethical, Legal and Political Challenges (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

In our modern information societies, we not only use and welcome computers; we are highly dependent upon them. There is a downside of this kind of progress, however. Computers are not 100% reliable. They are insecure. They are vulnerable to attackers. They can either be attacked directly, to disrupt their services, or they can be abused in clever ways to do the bidding of an attacker as a dysfunctional user. Decision-makers and experts alike always struggle with the amount of interdisciplinary knowledge needed to understand the nuts and bolts of modern information societies and their relation to security, the implications of technological or political progress or the lack thereof. This holds in particular for new challenges to come. These are harder to understand and to categorize; their development is difficult to predict. To mitigate this problem and to enable more foresight, The Secure Information Society provides an interdisciplinary spotlight onto some new and unfolding aspects of the uneasy relationship between information technology and information society, to aid the dialogue not only in its current and ongoing struggle, but to anticipate the future in time and prepare perspectives for the challenges ahead.

General

Imprint:	Springer London
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	2013
Editors:	Joerg Kruger • Bertram Nickolay • Sandro Gaycken
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	214
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4471-4762-6
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer communications & networking > Network security Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society
LSN:	1-4471-4762-6
Barcode:	9781447147626

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