Privacy and Security: A Multidimensional Problem.

The article discusses privacy and security issues as they relate to computer science and computing technology, examining the social impact of computer programming and computers in general. Computer scientists aren't getting privacy and security matters right, the author suggests, citing weekly repor...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 11; pp. 25 - 27
Autor principal: Landau, Susan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2008
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Sumario:The article discusses privacy and security issues as they relate to computer science and computing technology, examining the social impact of computer programming and computers in general. Computer scientists aren't getting privacy and security matters right, the author suggests, citing weekly reports of cross-site scripting attacks and polymorphic virus codes. Other topics include the security of data in networked computer systems and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) code of ethics.