Trusting Infrastructure: The Emergence of Computer Security Incident Response, 1989–2005.
Historians have tended to analyze maintenance as an intrinsically local activity, something very unlike the development of large technological systems. This article challenges this historiographic dichotomy by examining efforts to construct a global infrastructure for maintaining computer security....
| Publicado en: | Technology & Culture Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 173 - 207 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jan2020
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