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For Good Measure: Cyberjobsecurity

Author(s): 

Dan Geer

Automation exists to remove costs. Some costs are measured in money lost. Some costs are measured in inaccurate results. Some costs are measured in risk taken on. For any cost, however, the first question to ask is, from whose vantage point is such and such a cost a cost? Is it the person shelling out money that could have been saved? Is it the person receiving inaccurate outputs that drove needlessly poor decisions? Is it the person trading short-term convenience for long-term risk? Or is it the counterparties to each of those persons?

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February 2015, Vol. 40, No. 1
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