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Spafford On Infrastructure Risks

Posted by michael on from the other-kings-said-i-was-daft-to-build-a-castle-on-a-swamp dept.

nealmcb writes "In a major report from the AAAS, Eugene Spafford, director of CERIAS, summarizes the many risks to our information infrastructure (viruses, bugs, single points of failure, etc.), their causes (explosive growth, primacy of time-to-market over quality, lack of support for basic information security research, etc.), and the negative effects of the DMCA, CBDTPA, and other corporate maneuvers."

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