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Chapter 1
Introduction
Although technology in general and computers specifi cally, since their introduction and dissemi-
nation into mainstream society, have benefi ted society, there is also a sinister, dark side to this
technology when it is abused. In recent years, society has seen the rise in abuse of various kinds—
personal or private and corporate, conducted with, through or by technology.
ese abuses usually have as their objective, the misappropriation of assets (fi nancial or other-
wise), disruption of commerce, theft of personally identifi able information, the exploitation of
innocent individuals, destabilization of governmental infrast ...