Digital Security: Cyber Terror and Cyber Security

Digital Security: Cyber Terror and Cyber Security, 9780816067916 (0816067910), Chelsea House Publications, 2010

These days, it is not unusual for 10- to 12-year-olds to be pub- lishing their own Web sites or for second and third graders to begin computer classes. At the same time, computer games are becoming increasingly popular as major publishing houses continue to churn out educational computer programs for children in pre- school. At the other end of the spectrum, technological know-how has become a requirement for most jobs in an increasingly digital world, as the computer has become a common tool in most profes- sions. Even the often-mentioned "digital divide" between those who have access to computers and those who do not is being bridged with the development of tools such as the XD computer designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory and the availability of computers at libraries and schools. As people become more reliant on digital devices to perform everyday tasks, these mod- ern conveniences become commonplace.

Even though there are many different kinds of computers avail- able for everyday use—ranging from gadgets like the BlackBerry to specially made computers for playing computer games—all the machines operate on the fundamental system of ones and zeros called binary, invented in the seventeenth century. Although it might appear that computers and newly developed digital products are "new" technologies, the seeds of modern digital technologies were planted nearly three centuries ago and grew with the research of legendary scholars and engineers such as Gottfried Leibniz and others.

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