Computer software privacy

Engineers ability to address ethical issues related to technology advancement, e.g., privacy issues in computer software/conununication and... 

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Physical facility A patient service area distinct from the dispensing area will be created. The space will use cubicle dividers to allow privacy to perform the tests and to allow the education and counseling sessions. The space will be large enough to fit the equipment, a desk or table, chairs, and a computer. A patient record system that can interface with the dispensing software will be used. 

Pharmacies need a number of physical resources to provide most value-added services. This usually begins with the layout of the pharmacy. Many value-added pharmacy services require at least some degree of privacy. Unfortunately, pharmacies that were designed to maximize the efficiency of the dispensing process often do not have a private office or classroom space necessary to provide patient care services. Other physical resources that may be needed to provide a professional service include computer hardware and software, testing devices, medical supplies, and office supplies. 

With increasingly networked, distributed computer systems the risk of deliberate malicious interactions, using software-based tools, became a serious threat. Many-fold related issues like data protection, privacy, integrity, authenticity, and denial of service attacks, viruses, worms etc. lead to a separate community to be established, which is nowadays in the main focus of the public as was safety some time ago (and still is—but only after catastrophic events). This community developed separate standards, methods, taxonomy and ways of thinking. 

The traditional computing model where data are exchanged across the network becomes inefficient and inadequate when vast amounts of data are involved or when the data need to be protected for compliance to privacy laws. The traditional computing model where software is kept stationary on a designated system becomes not only inefficient but inadequate for pervasive computing environment. 

Cloud Computing means that information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, notebooks, entertainment centers, tablet computers, wall computers, handhelds, sensors, monitors etc (Wikipedia, 2009). For example, Google Apps provides common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser while the software and data are stored on the servers. This is a rather controversial and disturbing concept for privacy and surveillance concerns. 

Collaborative Modeling-Data Environments should be funded on a multiyear basis should be organized to provide integrated, efficient, standardized, state-of-the-art software packages, commodity computing and interpretative schemes and should provide open-source approaches (where appropriate), while maintaining security and privacy assurance. 

As the state-of-the-art experiments have shown, QKD has been advanced beyond proof-of-principle demonstrations in physics laboratories. In fact, the devices developed for QKD are available as commercial products (Stucki et al., 2002), and a whole QKD setup, including the software to perform the classical calculations for privacy amplification, may soon be available. Does this mean a quantum computer is around the corner Unfortunately, the answer is no, because two requirements for quantum computing are very hard to achieve, although they are not necessary for quantum communication. First, in a quantum computer the quantum states of many qubits, the quantum counterpart of the classical bit, must be stored for roughly as long as the computation runs for QKD, qubits may be measured and destroyed as soon as they have reached the receiver. Second, the many qubits of a quantum computer must interact with each other in a carefully controlled way in QKD, the qubits can be sent separately and never have to interact with each other. 

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