IN the 1960s, mainframe computers posed a significant technological challenge to common notions of privacy.
Among other recommendations, the group called for "a comprehensive report by the U.S. Surgeon General on the full extent of physical, emotional and other developmental hazards computers pose to children".
On page 1, she noted that computers "pose new versions of standard moral problems and moral dilemmas, exacerbating the old problems, and forcing us to apply ordinary moral norms in uncharted realms".
The tool is reserved for instances where failure to protect user computers poses a significant threat, and today's deployment indicates that the threat is, at least in theory, considerable.
Gomory of IBM has so aptly noted, "Far from being passive containers for microelectronic devices, the packages in today's advanced computers pose at least as many engineering challenges as the chips that they interconnect, power, and cool".
Televisions and household computers pose a different problem.
Since the computer viruses pose a serious problem to individual and corporative computer systems, a lot of effort has been dedicated to study how to avoid their deleterious actions, trying to create anti-virus programs acting as vaccines in personal computers or in strategic network nodes.
Not everyone thinks that early computer use poses a risk to children.
The feasible number of vacuum tubes in a computer also posed a practical limit on storage capacity beyond a certain point, vacuum tubes are bound to burn out as fast as they can be changed.
They raised the issue at a meeting of NATO on Monday, with Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo saying that the alliance, which Estonia joined in 2004, needed to urgently debate the question — once seemingly a distant threat — of whether mass computer attacks posed a threat to national security.
