Writing Academic English 4th Edition

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Theincreaseduseofcomputersinbusinesshasbeenaccompaniedbya costly

increaseincomputercrime.

Computercriminalscostbusinessa lotofmoney.

"Thefinanciallossestobusinessfromcomputertheftswillexceed$25billionin

2005."

Computercriminalsstealnotonlymoneybutalsoinformation.

"Itisnotjustthemoneytheysteal;theystealdata,anddataispower."

A bookwrittenbyMeredithBruce,Cybercrime,page185.Thebookwas

publishedinNewYorkbya companynamedWexlerin2004.

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Theincreaseduseofcomputersinbusinesshasbeenaccompaniedbya

costlyincreasein computercrime.Thelossestovictimsofcomputercrimesare

veryhigh. In herbookCybercrime.authorMeredithBruceclaimedthatthe

financial lossestobusinessfrom computertheftswouldexceed$25billionin

2005 (185). Computercriminalsstealnotonly moneybutalsoinformation.For

example,theystealconfidentialbusinessrecords,customerlists,andcorporate

plans.As Brucestated,"Itisnotjustthemoneytheysteal;theystealdata, and

datais power"(185).

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Computerscannotbecomparedtohumanbrains.

Thehumanbrainismorepowerfulthananycomputer.

"Ithasbeenestimatedthattheinformation-processingcapacityofeventhemost

powerfulsupercomputerisequaltothenervoussystemofasnail-atinyfraction

ofthepoweravailabletothesupercomputerinsidethehumanskull."

Thekindsofprocessingina humanbrainanda computeraredifferent,too.

"Computersfindit easytoremembera 25-digitnumberbutfindit hardto

summarizethegist!of[children'sstory]'LittleRedRidingHood,'andhumans

findit hardtorememberthenumberbuteasytosummarizethestory."

Bothquotationsareonpage 64 ofa magazinearticletitled"Cana ComputerBe

Conscious?"byStevenPinker.Thearticleappearedonpages63-65ofthenews

magazineU.S.News&WorldReportonAugust18,1997.

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